Book Review: Looking for Alaska
- Goohika Joshi
- Jul 10, 2022
- 2 min read
Author: John Green
Genre: Young adult fiction
Themes: Identity, mystery and the unknown, loyalty and forgiveness
What I Love About the Book: The book starts with a count down of sorts. The first chapter is titled '136 Days Before', and with every chapter, the reader gets closer to an unknown event (which I won't mention, because no spoilers). The protagonist, Miles, better known by his moniker 'Pudge', is fascinated by the last words of famous people. He believes that they tell you a lot about their personalities and lives. The complex theme of death, mixed with a meaningful love arch add flavour to the book.
The characters are beautifully written- especially Alaska's. The author steers clear of all stereotypes as he writes this layered, complex and uninhibited girl. She is best described by Pudge when he says, “If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
Overall, Looking for Alaska is a gripping and beautiful book that touches upon sensitive topics like faith, death, love and the idea of 'forever', while doing justice to each one. A must-read in my opinion!
Beautiful Quotes from the Book:
"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
"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. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.”
About the Author: John Green is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars, and Turtles All the Way Down. Green’s books have been published in more than 55 languages and over 24 million copies are in print.
Online Availability: Amazon
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Goohika ✨
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