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Looking for Alaska
by John Green
I simply adored this book. I read this book on a plane, in the spa, in bed, and on the beach bc I just could not get enough.
I know this book is not new at all yet somehow I missed all spoilers (except the blow job which John green spoiled for me when in response to this book being banned he said something like I stand by that deeply un-erotic blow job). When I got to the part where Alaska died I was shook. I think I gasped in the spa on the heated bed.
This book was so well written, some parts were incredibly poetic. The characters all felt real and had depth. Strangely for me this book was half escapism, half reflecting on my high school years. This book was very much not similar to my experience in high school yet there were so many situations that I went through that were similar to pudge (new high school in the middle, “relationship” where you basically ghost each other at the end, a friend death, heck I even tried to call myself pudge muffin on the internet for a while). I saw a lot of myself in pudge and felt truly connected to him and all his friends.
As previously mentioned, in high school I had a friend die. The police didn’t know if it was an accident or suicide. The way pudge process that felt deeply authentic to the unanswerable questions we all texted each other for weeks, and the anger we felt when someone who had previously called her annoying would espouse upon how much they missed her. I was not really a reader in high school so I’m not surprised the content of this book was never mentioned to me but man I wish I had read this then.
Please read this book. It’s beautiful and moving. It’s an engaging look at the human condition and love. It’s banned I think only for a part that takes you two minutes to get through and really you could skip completely and it wouldn’t make that much of a difference but you should still read it because it feels like probably the most accurate teenage sex scene ever. (I’m guessing lol)
I know this book is not new at all yet somehow I missed all spoilers (except the blow job which John green spoiled for me when in response to this book being banned he said something like I stand by that deeply un-erotic blow job). When I got to the part where Alaska died I was shook. I think I gasped in the spa on the heated bed.
This book was so well written, some parts were incredibly poetic. The characters all felt real and had depth. Strangely for me this book was half escapism, half reflecting on my high school years. This book was very much not similar to my experience in high school yet there were so many situations that I went through that were similar to pudge (new high school in the middle, “relationship” where you basically ghost each other at the end, a friend death, heck I even tried to call myself pudge muffin on the internet for a while). I saw a lot of myself in pudge and felt truly connected to him and all his friends.
As previously mentioned, in high school I had a friend die. The police didn’t know if it was an accident or suicide. The way pudge process that felt deeply authentic to the unanswerable questions we all texted each other for weeks, and the anger we felt when someone who had previously called her annoying would espouse upon how much they missed her. I was not really a reader in high school so I’m not surprised the content of this book was never mentioned to me but man I wish I had read this then.
Please read this book. It’s beautiful and moving. It’s an engaging look at the human condition and love. It’s banned I think only for a part that takes you two minutes to get through and really you could skip completely and it wouldn’t make that much of a difference but you should still read it because it feels like probably the most accurate teenage sex scene ever. (I’m guessing lol)