sheadel 's review for:

Looking for Alaska by John Green

5.0

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"When adults say 'Teenagers think they are invincible' with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail."There are some books you have thoughts about, and then there are some books where thoughts are completely inadequate. Maybe they will come to me eventually, but now, having just finished this book and having reread the ending several times, I'm just going to sit and attempt to comprehend John Green and Looking for Alaska and Pudge and the Colonel and Takumi and Lara and the Great Perhaps and the labyrinth and Alaska herself.

I think my emotions right now are best described by John Green himself in another wonderful story: "Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read that book." - The Fault in Our Stars

That's basically how I feel about this jewel of a novel. You should all read it if you have not.