Looking for Alaska- John Green

I bought this book right after finishing The Fault in our Stars also by John Green. I don't know if I was expecting something as great as what I had just finished, but this just didn't do it for me. I think that maybe boys in high school would enjoy this book more than me. I wish I had more to say, but it just didn't leave much for me. Other than the fact that I, like John Green and Miles Halter, now am interested in famous last words.

Here is the synopsis from Goodreads.com:

Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school 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. A stunning debut, it marks John Green's arrival as an important new voice in contemporary fiction.

Loved:

• the idea of a Great Perhaps
• the different famous last words throughout the book
• wondering what Miles was counting down to at the beginning of each chapter

Loathed:

• boarding school that has such bad campus living
• irrational pranking
• so much smoking
• sex talked about in a meaningless manner
• storyline went slowly for me

It just wasn't for me. I think maybe some people would really love this book, but there was a lot that just didn't sit well with me. I wouldn't read this again or recommend it.

The Fault in our Stars- John Green

Now that I have finished wiping up my tears, I can finally gather my thoughts enough to say that this was a beautifully, intelligentlly, and emotionally riveting tale of cancer-ridden , star-crossed love. 

Sometimes I get into a slump when reading books. It's easy to continue on the same path of genres until you're mind essentially becomes mush. I did this recently, with the self-inflicted onslaught of new adult romance novels I've been reading. Not saying they weren't interesting, lovely tales, just saying I was in a slump. That is how I came across Fault in our Stars.

You'll notice that this book is written by a... dun dun dun... man! 

I actually would have never noticed while reading the book, because he did such a great job sounding like a cancer infested teenage girl. It is a sad story, but it is refreshing to hear about pain and death the way they really are. Painful. Sad. Not. Fun. The Fault in our Stars made me laugh out loud and cry out loud, and even made me reread parts that were too intelligent for my brain, but nonetheless all of these aspects made me love reading this book so much.

This is the synopsis that I found on Good Reads

Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 13, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumours in her lungs... for now.

Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is post-everything else, too; post-high school, post-friends and post-normalcy. And even though she could live for a long time (whatever that means), Hazel lives tethered to an oxygen tank, the tumours tenuously kept at bay with a constant chemical assault.

Enter Augustus Waters. A match made at cancer kid support group, Augustus is gorgeous, in remission, and shockingly to her, interested in Hazel. Being with Augustus is both an unexpected destination and a long-needed journey, pushing Hazel to re-examine how sickness and health, life and death, will define her and the legacy that everyone leaves behind

Loved:

• the truth in pain and suffering... no sugar coating
• how disease breeds friendship 
• the honesty in conversation
• insightful words to quote by
• star-crossed lovers
• the fact that I laughed and cried out loud
• hope that even living for a little while, is worth living

Loathed:

• how true endings just end, but I guess I get it from reading this book {you shall too...read it}

GREAT BOOK! It is a little most costly than most ebooks, but I guess with great insight you must giveth a little more mula!

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