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Αναζητώντας την Αλάσκα by John Green

133 reviews

phantom_highway's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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sirch's review against another edition

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funny mysterious sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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briparker195's review against another edition

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challenging emotional 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? N/A

4.0

John Green writes a lot of books about teenagers that die. It was a good introspection on the acceptance of death. I think it said all the things it should say. A little salty that John used all these real places that I've lived in, but Vine Station is a fake town. Also less points for lack of diversity, but points given back based on the time period and setting of the book. 
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ravenauthor1013's review against another edition

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challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The book was very well-written and posed challenging questions. 
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bookbedtimeprocrastination's review against another edition

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The book sucks...
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sandysmith's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.0

As young adult books go, this is a good one. Split into two parts before creating the high school vibe, making friends, japes, and lightheartedness followed by after, after a accident we tumble into grief and sadness. Beautifully written, capturing teenage angst, and the joy of living and loving, heartbreaking, poignant, funny and sad a good read for teenagers who would get something out of reading it and me too a fifty something cis woman. Read as part of a book club with the banned book criteria. There is no way this book should be banned in some schools in the States. Yes, it would generate discussion, but what a book. Fab stuff.
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loverofeels's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

hated this as a tween but now i couldn't put it down
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gummymom5314's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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browsingthebooks's review against another edition

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4.5

I read this book in a single day and learned two things:
1- John Green is a dang good writer, bless his existential little heart.
2- I deeply would never recommend this book to a teenager. 😅
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mandycantsleep's review against another edition

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

3.0

I remember reading this in middle school and absolutely loving it. So I decided to reread it now, as a 22-year-old, and I cannot say it resulted in the same outcome. I feel like a lot of the book was ... completely unnecessary.
The second half of the book felt super drawn out, I think it could have been wrapped up in just a few chapters. I was listening to the audiobook, so it ended up being 3.5 hours of the second half. Honestly, I started to lose interest after an hour in.
It was fairly obvious to me why Alaska was going out (maybe it was my memory from 10 years ago? Or more likely, just the fact that she talked about her worst day prior (her mom's death), and the date she drove off was around the same time in January.) I was just getting really annoyed at the characters, I felt like screaming through my screen, "SHE WAS GOING TO SEE HER MOM! OBVIOUSLY!" So when they finally figured it out, it wasn't some big conclusion for me.
I also think maybe it was just a bit young for me. While I was definitely too young to be reading this in middle school, I think maybe high school is the best demographic for this book. Overall, it's a really intense story and had me hooked in the first half, but lost me in the second.
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