Not a fancontroversial opinion, I didn't really like Looking for Alaska very much. I know a lot of people really love it. Maybe I'd like it some more if I read it again, but I just I thought it was okay at best.
Looking for Alaska (2005)
Others: Mixed Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy 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. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . . After. Nothing is ever the same.
- ISBN:
- 9780525556541
- Length:
- 270 pages
Genres: young adult
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Loved iti fell in love and then it became kind of cliche to enjoy john green but honestly i still really love john green
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MixedLooking for Alaska I'll put in like okay when I read it I would say it was good there's problems
Not a fanlooking for a last good sorry I'm sorry I have to put it on bad tear I'm sorry John Green but that book really was not for me it's incredibly pretentious
Not a fanI did not like this book at all there's very few books that I just completely dislike like normally I can find at least one thing that I liked in a book but this one was just so disappointing you guys
Loved itLooking for Alaska love that book so much I mean it was probably my favorite john green book
Not a fanI read this book and I Flippin hated it like I didn't like it at all I hated the characters the story was kind of stupid
Loved itit was so good and just all of john green's writing just completely blows me away there's something so beautiful about the way he tells stories
Loved itit's my favorite John Green Book all of John Green books are great I just thought I'd bring this one in because it's my favorite