Kim Kaso’s Reviews > Looking for Alaska > Status Update

Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm. What a hoot. Best prank ever. I love your books, John Green. Please get back to writing, I am running out of new ones to read.

...prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart."

"everything that comes together falls apart," the Old Man said. "Everything. The chair I'm sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I'm gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you're gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you--they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn't...

Upon hearing this, Banzan realized that there is no best and no worst, that those judgements have no real meaning because there is only what is, and POOF, he reached enlightenment.

Then the Colonel said, "I'm just grateful for you, Mom," and Dolores laughed and said, "That dog won't hunt, boy."

"Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food."