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| Looking for Alaska | 
| Author: John Green
Creator: Jeff Woodman
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Lib Ed
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  79 reviews
Sales Rank: 4796267
Format: Audiobook, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged
Media: MP3 CD
Edition: MP3
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 1423324471
EAN: 9781423324478
ASIN: 1423324471
Publication Date: September 21, 2006
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Product Description
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.
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 Please enter a title for your review July 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
John Green has an impressive imagination but he might consider investing in a class on the formalities of novel writing if that's the format he wants to present his ideas in as it's something Looking For Alaska demonstrates his lack of competence at. The interesting parts of the book are made up of a series of ideas that might just as well have been presented as a "wouldn't it be cool if..." list. The rest is just the neccessary banality to make a novel framework. It was worth reading for the first half but the 100 pages after Alaska (spoilers alert!!) dies is much sparser in terms of quirky cool ideas. Pudge's emotional outbursts seem to contradict his character and the unravelling of the mystery of where/why Alaska was driving is implausably presented as rational deduction.
A far cry from Holden and Catcher in the Rye July 20, 2008
As an English teacher, I'm always drawn to new novels that will appeal to high school students. One review on the back cover mentioned "In the spirit of Holden Caufield." I would say this novel is a far cry from Catcher in the Rye. Sure, Miles learns about life and his completely changed by seaching for the Great Perhaps, but his journey cannot hold a candle to the quest of Holden.
Like Jane Gallagher, Alaska captivates Miles interest. She is the "perfect" woman to Miles. However, Alaska herself is more of a head case or outcast. I'm wondering if maybe Mr. Green meant for Alaska to be the protagonist in the novel and not Miles.
I truly thought the first section "Before" was much better written and captivated me more than the second section "After".
I do think teenagers would enjoy this, mainly for the heavy drinking and sexual details. I'm wondering if Mr. Green added some of these for shock value or for young appeal. In away, it's a shame. It makes the novel too graphic to teach in the classroom, although it would make a great "outside" reading option.
 dragged on a bit July 14, 2008
this book is a very accurate portrayal of growing up bored out of your mind with nothing else to do but cause trouble. the characters are people you know and can connect with, though I could only connect with Alaska. In the end it dragged on a bit and the plot twists were easily read before they happened. the last maybe 100 pages are not necessary. still a good read.
 Greatest Book~*~* MUST READ May 7, 2008
Looking for Alaska by John Green, is an amazing book. I was a little apprehensive about reading it with my 10th graders, but they immediately fell in love with the book. For some of them, this was the first book they've ever finished, and at age 15-16 I think that speaks for itself.
You get so wrapped up in this book, you laugh, you cry, and you look at your own life. As soon as I finished I wanted to turn right back to the first page and start reading again, which isn't something that normally happens.
I would recommend this book to anyone above the age of 14. It's amazing and I can't wait to introduce it to more students.
Moving and pertinent May 5, 2008
I teach high school, and I really wanted to read this to my students. Unfortunately, it has some language usage and sexual references that make it impossible to read as a class. I would recommend it to a high school student, however. It is pertinent to things that may be happening in their lives, and it has some powerful literary elements that may someday make it a classic.
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