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(Re-read) Looking For Alaska - June BOTM
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What a book! I really like the way John Green creates his characters - they are very real and believable. Won't give away any spoilers, but this book is fantastic!
"looking for Alaska" is really interesting book but after this book i read paper town which is no different
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Ruchi, that's next on my reading list too. :)Planning to start it next - and I have high hopes from John Green now. I think his prose is very poetic, and I admire his writing style.
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Yup, read it a couple of days ago. Fantastic read!
Love John Green books! Fantastic read.
I really liked Looking for Alaska, but The Fault in our Stars is one of my favorites!!! Excellent book, but I warn....it's a tear jerker!
Ruchi wrote: "I'm glad you guys liked the book:) That makes me feel better - and more excited to read the book!! I have Paper Towns, I'm gonna read it soon :-)"paper town and looking for Alaska are kind of similar
I'm hoping to read Looking for Alaska by tomorrow, and I haven't read John Greed yet so I'm looking forward to the great characters that he supposedly showcases.
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I haven't read any of his books. I feel like I'm missing out lol. Need to jump on the band wagon.
Looking for Alaska is a great book, not my favorite by John Green but still good. It was an easy read that focused on an important issue...I definitely recommend it, especially to teens
Anuj wrote: "Ruchi wrote: "I'm glad you guys liked the book:) That makes me feel better - and more excited to read the book!! I have Paper Towns, I'm gonna read it soon :-)"paper town and looking for Alaska a..."
Only at a very, very shallow level. I just finished reading 'Paper Towns' and it is brilliant. :)
Sumit wrote: "Anuj wrote: "Ruchi wrote: "I'm glad you guys liked the book:) That makes me feel better - and more excited to read the book!! I have Paper Towns, I'm gonna read it soon :-)"paper town and looking..."
looking is Alaska is better for paper town was boring in the end
Haha, I actually thought Paper Towns had a great ending. :)
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Glad you liked it!
I've already read this one and I loved it :) Hope you guys enjoy!
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I loved Paper Towns, but couldn't proceed with the audio version of Looking for Alaska, though I tried a couple of times. Seeing that many love it, am tempted to try once more.
I loved Paper Towns, but couldn't proceed with the audio version of Looking for Alaska, though I tried a couple of times. Seeing that many love it, am tempted to try once more.
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Give it a try! You'll def. like it:)
This book almost had me crying! It's my favorite John Green novel. One thing that I really liked was how Miles's character (I believe that was his name) was always quoting famous people. I love the last couple of lines at the very end of the book.
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Glad you liked it! Even I loved how Miles has a hobby of memorizing people's last names....
Everyone seems to like The Fault in Our Stars the most, but Looking for Alaska is definitely my favorite John Green book. I just loved the characters and their little adventures.
Danielle, I actually rate both books equally. I think Looking for Alaska is as good, if not better than TFIOS. :)
This book was great!actually it was so teen!!i kept remembering the silly pranks my friends and i used to pull at school :)it was so full of fun and 'adrenaline'!!yet very sad at times..the characters were so real and believable..i loved all of them and especially 'the colonel':) he was so hilariously funny :) :)
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Yes! This book was really teen....whereas the Fault in Our Stars showed teenagers who didn't quite act their age and were too philosophical....this book had the perfect characters who behaved their age....And I loved Colonel too:)Though my fave was Alaska herself:)
Yes Alaska was great too!but Chip's 'maintaining the streak' thing was hilarious.Wasn't it?:D Actually i could be friends with any of them if given the chance :) And I am certainly going to read all of John Green's novels now!
well, join the boat surabhi! I have only read paper towns but really liked the style and fun of the author's writing so much that am gonna read anything and everything written by him.
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That's my aim too.....:)) Have read 3 of his books and really wanna read the others....
sure buddy if we time and patience permits both of us, we shall read them in buddy reads :)
Although there is some absurd familiarity in all of John Green's books and Miles was no better than Colin or Quentin in the nerdy-unpopular-types, I have ridiculously engrossed myself in this book and have loved it till the very end.
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Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . .
After. Nothing is ever the same.
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I recently read Looking for Alaska and while I can't say it was a favorite, I do have to admire John Green for tackling such heavy subject matters for a young audience. I like how he doesn't preach to his readers, or pretends that as an adult he has all the answers, because he doesn't and shouldn't have all the answers. He lets his characters come to a realization about life through their own thoughts, emotions, and experiences; and it is through his characters that we as readers come to a realization about life through our own thoughts, and emotions, and experiences.
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