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A review by sarahscupofcoffee
Looking for Alaska by John Green
5.0
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Looking for Alaska is set at Culver Creek, a boarding school for intellectuals. It has a lake with an angry swan and room without air conditioning. Alaska Young is the main character of this story, but she's not the narrator of it. This book is written from Pudge's perspective, whom is a new student with a thing for last words. He memorizes the last words of people, but doesn't bother to read their work. It's hard to tell what Looking for Alaska is about because of the symbolism and life questions that are posed, but it's generally, it's about a boarding school mishap. Students pull pranks, smoke cigarettes, get drunk, and have sex. It's about a young girl dying and the school scrambling to figure out why she died and what it means.
I didn't just read this book because Hulu recently made a series based on it. This is my favorite book of all time and they happened to adapt it. I read this book when I was in high school. I remembered loving it and my favorite quote from any book ever comes from this book ("If people were rain, then I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.") John Green taught me about language, literature, humor, nerdiness, and life from this book. He sparked my love for reading and writing, as well as helped me answer some pretty deep questions for a high schooler to have to answer.
Now, about a decade later, I still am proud to say that this is my favorite book of all time. I was nervous at first because the book was so-so until the ending. I was re-reading it and found myself disappointed often. I loved the characters and the plot, but I loved his writing more. That's what I fell in love with; it wasn't the book, it was his writing style. I was scared that this wouldn't be my favorite book anymore because there are other books of his with his writing style that had a stronger plot. But then it happened. All of those ends he planted and ties he left undone began to blossom and come together.
I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but the reason I love this book goes deeper than the typical setting, plot, and characterization. It's the message behind the words and ink. Looking for Alaska helped me understand life and death; it taught me about the labyrinth of suffering and how to navigate it. This book taught me that it's okay to be a book nerd. The last bit of this book is Pudge's final exam, for crying out loud.
This book taught me how to process loss, which I desperately needed due to a detrimental loss I personally suffered. Thank you John Green. Thank you for your lessons on life and death, for the perspective on being literate, for making me laugh, and teaching me about the burfriedo.
Looking for Alaska is set at Culver Creek, a boarding school for intellectuals. It has a lake with an angry swan and room without air conditioning. Alaska Young is the main character of this story, but she's not the narrator of it. This book is written from Pudge's perspective, whom is a new student with a thing for last words. He memorizes the last words of people, but doesn't bother to read their work. It's hard to tell what Looking for Alaska is about because of the symbolism and life questions that are posed, but it's generally, it's about a boarding school mishap. Students pull pranks, smoke cigarettes, get drunk, and have sex. It's about a young girl dying and the school scrambling to figure out why she died and what it means.
I didn't just read this book because Hulu recently made a series based on it. This is my favorite book of all time and they happened to adapt it. I read this book when I was in high school. I remembered loving it and my favorite quote from any book ever comes from this book ("If people were rain, then I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.") John Green taught me about language, literature, humor, nerdiness, and life from this book. He sparked my love for reading and writing, as well as helped me answer some pretty deep questions for a high schooler to have to answer.
Now, about a decade later, I still am proud to say that this is my favorite book of all time. I was nervous at first because the book was so-so until the ending. I was re-reading it and found myself disappointed often. I loved the characters and the plot, but I loved his writing more. That's what I fell in love with; it wasn't the book, it was his writing style. I was scared that this wouldn't be my favorite book anymore because there are other books of his with his writing style that had a stronger plot. But then it happened. All of those ends he planted and ties he left undone began to blossom and come together.
I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but the reason I love this book goes deeper than the typical setting, plot, and characterization. It's the message behind the words and ink. Looking for Alaska helped me understand life and death; it taught me about the labyrinth of suffering and how to navigate it. This book taught me that it's okay to be a book nerd. The last bit of this book is Pudge's final exam, for crying out loud.
This book taught me how to process loss, which I desperately needed due to a detrimental loss I personally suffered. Thank you John Green. Thank you for your lessons on life and death, for the perspective on being literate, for making me laugh, and teaching me about the burfriedo.