This next review comes to you from the vault. It was written minutes after I finished Looking for Alaska, on September 22, 2007. It has been edited a bit, mostly to get rid of spoilers.
So, I just finished Looking for Alaska (literally) five minutes ago. Frankly, it was a beautiful book. John just gets it. The whole book was very real. I laughed, I cried. Three or four times. Part of this is because I am on my period and hormonal (the best way to read a book or watch an emotional movie, by the way), but a lot of it is because of John’s beautiful writing. For a month when see the state of Alaska on a map I will think of this book. The story was beautifully told and it left me saying one thing: I love you, John Green.
CORRECTION: December 1, 2007; I can never see Alaska on a map and not think of this book.
A short synopsis of the novel:
Miles Halter is tired of his life. He goes to boarding school and makes some friends. They play some pranks. He falls in love with a girl named Alaska. Then something happens to cut his life in two chapters, a “before” and an “after”.
If you could not tell by that reflection, I love this book. I read it one year ago and have reread it since then; I think about it often. I feel a bit ridiculous praising a book so much, but really, this book is amazing. (So is John’s second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, but that is a different kind of amazing.)
John Green‘s third novel, Paper Towns, comes out on October 16. (You can preorder now!)
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