Looking for Alaska Author: John Green | Language: English | ISBN:
B000YI1K0C | Format: PDF
Looking for Alaska Description
Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award An ALA Best Book for Young Adults An ALA Quick Pick A Los Angeles Times 2005 Book Prize Finalist A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age A 2005 Booklist Editor’s Choice A 2005 School Library Journal Best Book of the Year 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.
- File Size: 427 KB
- Print Length: 254 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 014241221X
- Publisher: Speak (August 14, 2008)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B000YI1K0C
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #193 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #9
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teen & Young Adult > Literature & Fiction - #24
in Books > Teens - #56
in Books > Romance > Contemporary
- #9
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teen & Young Adult > Literature & Fiction - #24
in Books > Teens - #56
in Books > Romance > Contemporary
From all the hype, plus the fact that this is required reading for a lot of high schools, I figured that this would be the crown jewel of John Green novels, the best of the best. But annoyingly, I discovered that from page one it was Paper Towns all over again. I love John Green because God, he is so awesome, but I was really frustrated with the repetitiveness of the same type of plot. I've read Paper Towns, Will Grayson Will Grayson, TFIOS, and now Looking for Alaska and they have all been basically the same book. They all follow the exact same formula:
1. A nerdy, slightly awkward girl/boy who believes in shutting up and staying quiet, usually with a slightly odd name (Miles, WIll Grayson, Hazel, Quentin) meets
2. a super sexy (but nonconventionally so) girl/guy who is also really really intelligent, who usually has a weird name (Alaska, Augustus, Margo) and weird smart-kid quirks and a spirit of adventure, who
3. Takes the protagonist on pranky fun high school adventures and forces them to be something more than an introspective shy awkward person and then
4. Runs away from home/dies leaving the protagonist to
5. Sit around coping with the loss and ultimately come up with big deep conclusions about the meaning of life so that the book can end
6. With a cliffhanger or unsatisfying conclusion.
Obviously there is some slight variation but all his novels more or less follow this general outline.
In Will Grayson, Will Grayson, Tiny is the substitute for Margo/Alaska/Augustus since he drags the protagonist out of his shell and instigates most of the adventures.
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