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4/13/2015

Looking For Alaska by John Green | Book Review

Looking For Alaska by John Green

I'm just going to say this. I was a little disappointed.

The reason I chose to read Looking for Alaska as my first John Green book was that I thought that the whole idea of it seemed pretty cool but when I started reading it I felt disappointed. Yes. I was still glad I read it to the very end even though the ending was disappointing as well.

So now that I'm writing this I have to think about the things I did like about this book.
1. Alaska's book collection
2. This part:

"I wanted so badly to lie next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase.But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I as drizzle and she was a hurricane."

3. Takumi's rapping skills.
4. When Alaska said that her best day was when she was little and her mother went to the zoo.

"I liked the bears. She liked the monkeys. Best day ever."

"Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox." -Takumi

There were parts I liked yes but the overall feel of this book did not make me feel much of anything. I could not relate to any of the characters. Not even a little bit. And I guess that's why I didn't like this book.

Title: Looking For Alaska

Author: John Green

Publication: December 28, 2006, by Speak

Format: Paperback, 160 pages

Source: I bought it

Genres: Young Adult, Coming of Age, Realistic Fiction

Rating: ★★★

Synopsis:

Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet) even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, 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, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.
After. Nothing is ever the same.

My Thoughts:
Like I wrote above. I liked very little parts of this book and for some reason, I felt like I was disappointed with it because I believed it was going to be one thing and it turned out to be something else.
Now I'm not saying that you who are reading this shouldn't read this book on the contrary. Read it and share with me your thoughts on the book. Tweet me if you like. The link is below this.