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Looking for Alaska

by John Green

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Looking for Alaska

First drink, first prank, first friend, first girl, last words! A poignant and moving crossover novel about making friends and growing up from American author, John Green. Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words -- and tired of his safe, boring and rather lonely life at home. He leaves for boarding school filled with cautious optimism, 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.

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First love, last words

John Green has created personalities that both genders can relate to, be joyful for and cry for. It is beautifully written and stays in my head for days after reading it. "Looking For Alaska" is one of my all time favourites and after reading it I could pick it up and start all over again. I would recommend this book to any teenager regardless of their reading tendencies.

Review by Jon of the Warrington Borders on 2009-01-29 17:52:20
Looking for my favourite ever book?

I first picked this book up because of it's brilliantly simple and tactile cover, but you're online so I'll have to rely on other things to sell this tale! This is a simple tale of one boy's search for meaning in his teenage life. Pudge goes to a boarding school where he befriends the Colonel and Alaska and the three of them proceed to have an intense friendship which other people only seem to scratch beneath. Told in a unique style of counting days down to one fateful day, this is a no holds barred tale which covers such vast topics as life, death, destiny and love. Alaska is easily the coolest female character I've ever read and John Green's emotive story telling is a roller coaster of humor and deep personal investigation.

Review by Jon Hancock on 14:04, 04 Apr 2008

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