Looking For Alaska

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Subject: Looking For Alaska Thu Feb 07 2008, 16:20

Looking for Alaska by John Green

Synopsis that I nicked from Barnes & Noble.com

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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.

I just finished this book two days ago, and seriously I can not quit thinking about it. During the entire first half I was laughing so hard I was falling off the couch and onto the floor. Then all of the sudden WHAM! You hit the climax of the story - and something you never really saw coming happens and your whole perspective changes. During this book I laughed - I cried - I laughed some more and then I bawled like a baby. (It seriously will get to you that much.)

This book tugs at every emotion you have dwelling inside of you. There is some mature content - and it deals with some pretty serious issues. This is a 'Speak' book, which means that this book is meant to teach teenagers about serious issues and things that can happen - and how to and not to deal with those issues.

If I could say one thing to you about this book I would say - GO READ THIS! This book will stick with you for awhile it gets inside of your mind and firmly plants itself there.

Subject: Re: Looking For Alaska Sun Jul 18 2010, 17:53

Read this book last summer, and also could not stop thinking about it. Miles's innocence and ignorance makes everything so genuine and real when his life crosses with Alaska.
And Alaska is one of my favorite characters written by John Green because she's the most honest with herself.

This book will literally change your life, and make you think seriously about things you don't really pay attention to.

Also, for more John Green:
Read An Abundance of Katherines
Paper Towns
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
and check out www.youtube.com/vlogbrothers