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Looking for Alaska
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Start date
July 1, 2013
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July 31, 2013
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★ Belinda the Happy Dark Witch ★
Feb 21, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 2015
Yips and Yays for all the symbolism in this book! Woohooo
Marta (Cinnamon Cookie)
Dec 20, 2013 rated it it was amazing
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GENERAL IMPRESSION: 5
WRITING: 5 (AMAZING! AS USUAL...)
CHARACTERS: 5


“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska


Another incredibly amazing book by that pure genius called John Green.

We start our adventure with this normal t
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Aysha
Jan 28, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
I have reread this book and honestly its one of my faves! This new edition had so many more information for those who loved this book.
Megan Ziegenhagen
Jan 07, 2014 rated it liked it
I love John Green. And this book while it is good, didn't intrigue me as much as The fault in our stars or paper towns did.

First off I couldn't get into it and kept reading to find out what after was. I didn't feel sorry for Alaska. Everyone gets hurt but it doesn't mean you can be rude to other people when you feel like it. My favorite character in this book had to be the Colonel.
Overall it has some good and bad. I feel like I would like this book more if I was different person. But overall s
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Mallory
Mar 21, 2014 rated it really liked it
F*cking FOX!
Yu Fan
Dec 27, 2013 rated it did not like it
I honestly tried to read it twice, once because I was incredibly impressed by The Fault In Our Stars and twice because my friend recommended it. I really did my best, but it just wasn't interesting enough to read it further twice. But I guess I can't really judge since I haven't read the whole book. ...more
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Jan 25, 2014 rated it it was amazing
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