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Looking for Alaska

John Green

Start date: July 2, 2016

Finish date: July 31, 2016

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Aug 23, 2018 Susan rated it liked it

I keep forgetting to do reviews for past books I finished and didn't post a review on. SO another John Green book. I have to say this is the last book of his I will be reading. I am just not a fan. He adds so much that isn't needed and it's annoying. I will say I liked this book better then I expected to so I am happy about that. I did laugh at the Colonial's and Pudges relationship, and I like how kind of badass Alaska was. The tragedy in the middle kind of shocked me and I was genuinely sad an ...more

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Jan 15, 2013 Chris rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, united-states, young-adult, youth, audiobook

It's interesting to read this after reading books like As Simple as Snow, Thirteen Reasons Why, and The Tragedy Paper. All deal with teenage boys trying to figure out where they fit in and then along comes an amazing girl. And that takes some of the punch out of this book, except that this one came first. Miles Halter is the stereotypical boy who doesn't fit in. The opening scene in which his parents throw him a going away party before he leaves for boarding school and only two kids show up is a ...more

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