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Looking for Alaska

John Green

Start date: July 2, 2016

Finish date: July 31, 2016

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Oct 30, 2018 Olympia rated it it was amazing

Loved this book every teenager needs to read it, also adults you will understand the younger crowd better.

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Dec 07, 2013 Kirsten rated it liked it · review of another edition

I'm of two minds of this book. It was a nicely paced novel with compelling characters and I enjoyed it. The story of the young teen who led a slightly sheltered life but thought there was more to life and was thrown in with a slightly wilder crowd and has a life changing experience is just getting a little old.

I suppose that for young adults, this is a fantasy. But I don't even think it was a fantasy for me when I was a young adult.

Still, I did like the book. ...more

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Jun 26, 2011 Darcie rated it liked it

Shelves: rate-4, audio, young-adult

I really enjoyed this Young Adult Book. I liked the mystery and wanted to know how it would end so it kept me very engaged. This was a nice book to listen to.

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Sep 03, 2020 Cora rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, mystery, first-person, american-author, friendship, young-adult, coming-of-age, award-winner, debut, boarding-school

I enjoyed reading this book more than I expected too. It has many of the themes I have read in other John Green books, including teen boy angst and the mysterious but troubled crush. I liked the characters in this one, despite their many, many flaws and I appreciated that the adults, although not a large part of the story, were not simply grown ups out to get the kids (even when it is their job to do just that). I figured out most of the mystery of the plot well before the characters did, but I ...more

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Aug 06, 2013 Amanda R rated it it was ok · review of another edition

2.5 stars. I wanted to like this more than I did, especially after recently reading and loving The Fault in Our Stars. Granted, it was thoughtfully written as the other was, but I just had a really hard time connecting with the characters.

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