Looking for Alaska
by John Green
Taste attributes: dramateenromanceheavyrealisticsimplelinearenclosedemotive & stirringcoming of agecomplex relationshipsolving the riddle/not as it seems
Boxlist takeA contained, moving novel, heavy rather than light. Best if you like close-up stories over spectacle.
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.0 / 5
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About This Book
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.
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- John Green
- Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 288
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- Open Library
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