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Looking for Alaska
The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and The Fault in Our Stars
Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • A New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • NPR’s Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels • TIME magazine’s 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time • A PBS Great American Read Selection • Millions of copies sold!
First drink. First prank. First friend. First love.
Last words.
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 François Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who 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 modern classic, this stunning debut marked #1 bestselling author John Green’s arrival as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction.
Newly updated edition includes a brand-new Readers' Guide featuring a Q&A with author John Green
Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • A New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • NPR’s Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels • TIME magazine’s 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time • A PBS Great American Read Selection • Millions of copies sold!
First drink. First prank. First friend. First love.
Last words.
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 François Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who 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 modern classic, this stunning debut marked #1 bestselling author John Green’s arrival as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction.
Newly updated edition includes a brand-new Readers' Guide featuring a Q&A with author John Green
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60% in: I am FED UP with this lying protagonist. “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane“ boiii if you don’t get burned by cheating with psycho (but she’s “hot”) Alaska by the end I swear to god. Alaska a feminist my ass. Chip is the only good guy.
3 hours later: lmao ok u got me
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The overall message was nice. I find the age appropriate character quirks refreshing in a genre where often nowadays we have teenagers more mature and talented than their adult counterparts.
As I've rated the book, it's obvious that I didn't like the book much. It's not exactly the genre i prefer reading. But i really liked the quotes and phrases which I've posted on my account.
There is no denying John Green is an excellent author. I enjoyed the process of reading this novel, even if I didn't much enjoy the novel itself. Hence the three-star rating. Besides, although there were plenty of annoyances, I have been much more annoyed at books.
My major complaints are thus:
1. A whiny and largely uninteresting protagonist. His friends are interesting. He is not. They seem to like him. I don't know why.
2. It was fairly predictable. And then you get annoyed at characters for not realizing things sooner.
3. Alaska is supremely irritating. Like, to the point that I just really didn't like her. I know too many girls like her. Not really that nice and one hell of a bitch most of the time but says one of two profound things and has a rockin' bod, thus people (mostly men) hero-worship her and want nothing more than to get in her pants. Boring.
4. I know it's for teens, but I like it when my teen novels manage to transcend a little. Being no longer a teen, I felt old but also tired of the petty angst. Get over yourselves.
However, I kept reading, so there's that.
My major complaints are thus:
1. A whiny and largely uninteresting protagonist. His friends are interesting. He is not. They seem to like him. I don't know why.
2. It was fairly predictable. And then you get annoyed at characters for not realizing things sooner.
3. Alaska is supremely irritating. Like, to the point that I just really didn't like her. I know too many girls like her. Not really that nice and one hell of a bitch most of the time but says one of two profound things and has a rockin' bod, thus people (mostly men) hero-worship her and want nothing more than to get in her pants. Boring.
4. I know it's for teens, but I like it when my teen novels manage to transcend a little. Being no longer a teen, I felt old but also tired of the petty angst. Get over yourselves.
However, I kept reading, so there's that.
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