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Looking for Alaska

John Green

Start date: April 15, 2024

Finish date: April 30, 2024

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Aug 23, 2018 Susan rated it liked it

I keep forgetting to do reviews for past books I finished and didn't post a review on. SO another John Green book. I have to say this is the last book of his I will be reading. I am just not a fan. He adds so much that isn't needed and it's annoying. I will say I liked this book better then I expected to so I am happy about that. I did laugh at the Colonial's and Pudges relationship, and I like how kind of badass Alaska was. The tragedy in the middle kind of shocked me and I was genuinely sad an ...more

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Feb 09, 2011 Trisha rated it it was amazing

a great story that struggles with the realization that each person we come in contact with, we change and they change us.

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Feb 03, 2014 Krissy rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: pgs-200-299, buddy-read, cover-color-black, read-before-2015, book2film

This book started out great. Then it just plummeted. Once you got to the day the chapters were counting down to that is basically where the book ends for me. The last 40% of the book was very repetitive and boring. By the time I got to 80% I just skimmed my way through the last of it. The Fault in Our Stars blew me away. I was eager for another John Green book but this just did not compare. Not even close. I give it 2.5 stars.

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Dec 25, 2010 Thenia rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2011, standalone, contemporary, reviewed, ya-na

A very good book that deals with serious issues, death being one of them.

It was going very well until close to the end where it started lagging a little and getting repetitive. It took them forever to think of the... solution to the mystery and I felt like it was staring at them right in the face.

Among the many "lessons" this book leaves behind, is giving people a chance and forgiving them.

My timing in reading it was way off - I needed something a lot lighter and I didn't expect this book to be ...more

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