Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Szukając Alaski by John Green

70 reviews

markovskaiskra's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Vomit, Car accident, and Death of parent

sydneylount's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Suicide, and Car accident

Moderate: Sexual content and Alcohol

reuben394's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Vomit

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

jillkaarlela's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This was such a hyped up book, with people saying it changed their lives, and that just didn’t happen for me. It was introspective, with a real look at grief and morality within the scope of teenage life, however, there were so many things unanswered that it left me with more questions than answers. However, I think that is the point. To ask ourselves, “how do you get out of this labyrinth?” I wouldn’t say that this book was bad by any stretch of the imagination, it did make me think about important questions, but I just didn’t love it as much as I thought that I would. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Child death, Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Cursing

Maybe 14-15+

icarusandthesun's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I thought I was gonna hate this book, really.
The synopsis sounded so much like just another angsty teen coming-of-age slash romance book with a supposed "tragedy" that's not actually tragic but the author just bugs you with it until you come to believe it is.
I also thought that John Green, whose The Fault in our Stars I really didn't like, couldn't possibly write anything that I—a person not too fond of romance books in general—would truly enjoy.

But boy, was I wrong!

Looking for Alaska is not a romance. At least not a typical one. 
More so, it's a book about grief, and friendship, and famous last words. It's about how to deal with loss, about hope—and yes, also about a bunch of angsty teenagers who drink way too much and smoke wayyyy too many cigarettes. 
But maybe that's just how it's supposed to be.

I loved the storyline and pacing. It was one of those books that didn't make me impatient as I neared the end, but excited. It had me at the edge of my seat until the very last page. (Okay, nearly. No book can stop my impatience.)

I really enjoyed John Green's unique writing style, though. There were loads of intelligent and interesting quotes and questions that forced you to think about them. Pay attention and this book was full of little threads with beginnings and ends. So many quotes, so many references, they came back. Green chose his metaphors, authors to cite, and allegories undoubtedly wisely. Richly refreshing.

My only point of critique—the characters. I couldn't absolutely, wholly love them, because wow, they were unique, special, and so not relatable. 
It was like reading a story from the first-person perspective of a stone—a story starring more stones.
I don't know, I just couldn't relate to any of the characters at all, ESPECIALLY (and that's the worst part) to the main character.
His thoughts were just so... puberty-teenager-like at times (and no, I really don't want to elaborate on that).

Conclusion: Looking for Alaska is a funny, but also emotional and intelligent read and definitely worth checking out.

I want to end this review with one of my favorite Alaska Young quotes:

"Except luck is for suckers." (Alaska Young), p. 53 in my edition.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Car accident and Death of parent

tetetaeskz's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content, Car accident, and Alcohol

booksarefriends_notfood's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing, Grief, and Car accident

reallycoolpeople's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, Suicide, Death of parent, and Alcohol

amiahslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative inspiring sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

susannederstein's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

really liked it, not as much as i did a few years back, pudge and his obsessive immature love with alaska can be a bit annoying and repetitive, he is quite ignorant all in all not a ton happens and i did not like REALLY want to read, but the descriptions of culver creek paint a really nice picture and made me emerge in the story, characters are flawed, all in all very realistic and thought provoking

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, and Alcohol

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, and Dysphoria

Minor: Bullying, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Cultural appropriation