Title: Looking for Alaska
Author: John Green
Release Date: March 3rd, 2005
Series: None
Number of Pages: 221
Publisher: Speak
Source: Bought
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Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.
Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. A stunning debut, it marks John Green's arrival as an important new voice in contemporary fiction.
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Looking For Alaska is a book I had heard so much about. It also didn’t help that I’ve been following the vlogbrothers for a while on youtube. Yet, I had never read any of his books. I tried to read Looking for Alaska a couple of month ago, but I simply couldn’t get into it. I gave it a second chance last week, and manage to read it.
The thing is that the book is in two parts: Before and After. I had trouble getting through Before, simply because I didn’t see where it was going. Once the incident that separates the before and after happens, I couldn’t put the book down. Then I saw why many seemed to be in love with this book. I fell for it myself. I don’t want to say too much, because I don’t want to give away the incident. The ending was simply perfect for me, leaving me satisfied with what I had learned, what I has read.
The characters were great, yet slightly stereotyped. I liked Miles. There was something sweet and naïve about him that made him lovable, especially when you compare him the Colonel, Alaska and Takumi. At first, I didn’t like Alaska, but the more I got to know her, the more I understood her. There was something fragile about her, even if she doesn’t really want to show it, that I liked. It was fun to read the interaction between them.
The writing was great. I have to say that I will probably go get Papertown from John Green, because I really liked reading his words.
I would give it a four. If I were honest, I would have given the Before a 3 and the After a 5. So don’t give up, because this book gets better.
Actually that is really, really good to know. B/c we started this book and were having a really hard time getting into it. Maybe now we can go into again with the goal of making it to the After part.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the review!
This is definitely on my list of to-read books. The only John Green I've read is 'Paper Towns' which I really loved. But I've heard that most of his books are relatively the same, which is kind of a bummer. Still, I'm looking forward to picking this one up. =)
ReplyDeleteI love John Green books! Paper Towns is fantastic and so is An Abundance of Katherines (super funny!).
ReplyDeletehttp://lorxiebookreviews.blogspot.com/2012/05/looking-for-alaska-by-john-green.html i love JOHN GREEN :) have a nice day!
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