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How Looking for Alaska changed my life

I was 14 when I read LFA for the first time and I instantly connected with the characters, because they reminded me so much of me and my group of friends. It helped me relize the cruel reality that we were living and at the same time it gave me confort. It gave me confort that it wasn't just us living in this bubble, but there was Alaska, pudge, the colonel (is that what he is called in english?) and the rest. They helped me through a tough time in my life, and they gave me hope that someday I will no longer be lost in this maze. I reread this book over and over again, in hope that Alaska will somehow survive. In the hope that the end is not the end. Every time I read this book, I cry and I can't stop. Looking for Alaska changed the way I see things, it changed who I am as a person.

How Looking for Alaska changed my life

I will start with a sorry, because im romanian, and i don't speak very well english, and with another one, because i think i just arrived here soo late.

I readed this book first time at 13 years old, more exactly in 2015 june. When i heard that Alaska Young was died i just started to cry like a f*ckin' baby for food. I stoped tottaly from readin' it because i was like "this can't be possible, she joking or smth like this"

But no.

After one year, i decided to read it for the 2nd time, bcs i don't understand the real message of the book

I wanna to say that, the quote of Simon Bolivar (i think is right) is describing perfect Alaska Young. A youth wich changes her atitude from cute to a f***ing bitch, and that's true. She always asked herself, "How we can escape from this maze of suffering?" (for 2nd time i think is ok)

All what i hated at his book was that was a sad final, and that's all what i hated

I love soo much that John Green used names like Pudge or things like this to make us to don't realise soo good this book. What i loved too at this book was that the book is writed like a journal "After three days" etc.

As a final, i wanna to recomand all people to read this book, because is something wich describes perfect the real life, wich makes u to realise that all our life is just a maze and we cant escape

Im waitin as a child for the christmas, the movie

I think will be more easy to understand the real message, because u can see how all is going on

Thank you for according me 2 minutes of your life, peace for all

Looking For Alaska

I think that it is very important to read books that are real. Sometimes life is screwed up and weird and people die and all sorts of terrible tragedies occur. Books like Looking for Alaska show the truth. They show reality and reality is not always so wonderful and happy. Personally, I love books like this because they make me think.

The great beyond

I really love looking for Alaska because of the way it beautifully demonstrates the call of the void and the desire to do something and be something extrondinary, and the idea of going just so you don't stay

Contemplating the effect that Looking for Alaska has had in my life sweeps me up in a whirlwind of nostalgia that takes me back to the summer of 2011, shortly after I had joined Tumblr and had formed my first "internet friendship" with someone who, to this day, is one of the most important people in my life. I read LFA in the backseat of my parents' vehicle on a six hour road trip to the Florida panhandle, and it was the first thing I had ever read that I think ever truly changed my life. I've read the book a handful of times since then, always in times of great need brought on by pivotal points in my life, and it has always been there for me. I've connected with so many people as a result of our shared adoration for this wonderful book and its even more wonderful author. When I look at this page and see all the wonderful stories people have about reading this book, my heart swells with such joy thinking that LFA has changed and helped and impacted so many people in the last ten years. I can honestly say that my life would not be the same had I not read this book when I did, and it's such a beautiful thing to think that there are so many others out there who feel the same way.

The Great Perhaps

Upon entering my junior year of high school, we were required to choose a book to read and annotate over the summer. I'd heard that LFA was good so I decided to go for it. Little did I know was it going to CHANGE MY ENTIRE LIFE. I fell in love with the book and have re read it a couple of times, and often go back just to read my favorite parts. What Looking For Alaska did for me, was change my entire viewpoint on life and what is really important. I discovered myself this past year because of this book, I've discovered myself with a group of friends who are just like me. We started hanging out just a few months ago and my god it's like we've been friends since birth. We know what it's like to rebellious things and not have on single regret, and what it feels like to truly be alive. We have trips planned now and we are ready to experience this adventure that we call life in search of our "Great Perhaps" and I want you to know John Green, that you saved me from a pale life. I have more interest in learning when before it was just keeping a 4.0 GPA, and I have found the people I want to find my Great Perhaps with. I love them so much. I can not thank you enough and you can bet your bottom dollar I will be at the movie release opening night.

I read this book when I was at a major life turning point. This book, this story, this quote helped me see the world differently.

Looking For Alaska

After having read The Fault in Our Stars, I wanted to start another book of John and I found Alaska ... I love her because she was not a perfect character, had its flaws and that the actual towards at least for me. Read this book was really wonderful, although it is the first book of John no longer be heartbreaking and intense. I laughed, I cried and love with this book. I'll never forget, always be in my heart. Thanks John for writing this book, keep writing these books. Grettings From Venezuela!

Still looking for Alaska

LFA was the very first novel to make me cry and it means a whole lot because I'm not really a very emotional person. But there's something about LFA especially about its lead character, Alaska Young that seems to touch me beyond a real person can does. I just really fall in love with her character. Maybe it's on the feels of wanting to help this self-destructive girl, the urge to reach out to her for I believe that she doesn't deserve to be punished far worse by her own self. So I really did cry like a baby when she died, I remember and I'll never forget how I can't believe it at first (it's the thing that I always tell to people I talk to abt LFA, abt how I don't accept first Alaska's death) I thought just like how Pudge did, that that was one sort of a prank. Honestly as the days go on into the "after" there's still that hope in me that Alaska's alive. However, as the days after her death passed by, I learn to accept it just like how Pudge did. I learn to learn the truth that Alaska died, whether it was by accident or not.

I get too attached with this book that until now, I'm still looking for Alaska on other YA novels. And when it can't be helped, I just read Looking for Alaska again and again.

Glad was me when I heard that the screenwriters of TFIOS and PT will be working to make LFA come to life. I can't wait, whoever maybe chosen as Alaska, I just do hope that she'll give justice to it. Because Alaska, for me, is something more than a fictional character in a story.

I Remember

I think that people ultimately get what they personally need from a story. Or maybe it's more like we are reminded of different things we already know. In the way that really true things always seem familiar to us even when we have never explicitly thought about them. The thing that I got from Looking for Alaska, that tied everything in the story and everything I was feeling together, that I will carry with me for the rest of my life, is this:

"We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are."

A wonderful book that charms you, then crushes you, and finally elevates you with the same heartfelt sincerity throughout.

I read this book last month after one of my friends had begged me to read it. I remember reading this book at 1:00 AM with the flashlight from my phone (my parents would be so mad if they found me up that late) because it was that good. I was totally not expecting the car crash and when I had read it, I started hysterically sobbing. It was so unexpected and I swear, I even felt a bit dizzy. Alaska is such a strong character and this book was so beautifully written. This was the second John Green book that had made my cry (after TFIOS) and I've only read three of his works. I'm not kidding when I say that this book changed my life (and deprived me of my sleep, which I was totally fine with).

I first read Looking For Alaska when I was a freshman in high school, and I remember plain-as-day straight up sobbing uncontrollably for a solid ten minutes when I reached the middle. It was just incredibly sudden, and it left such an impression on me. Books have made me cry before, but never with that huge level of emotion. It was such a heavy influence on any writing I've done since then, and I'm thankful.

The first time I read Looking for Alaska was four years ago, in a cabin by a lake in New Hampshire, with my ex-boyfriend on our third anniversary trip. I was recovering from Lyme disease. I read and he played video games, and although our relationship didn't end for a few more years, it was the first time I realized that we didn't have much to say to each other anymore.

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I borrowed the book from my friend on January 3, and stayed up reading it through the night. Just as I got to the part of Alaska's death, the clock turned to midnight, I was bawling! Now, a little more than a year later, me and my boyfriend's anniversary is 1/4. Figures.

Looking for Alaska has impacted my life in so many ways. LFA was the book that helped me grow up in a way. I know it's not a coming of age story or anything, but at the time I was going through a period in my life where I didn't know who I was anymore or who I wanted to be, and LFA helped me realize it. Since then, I've changed for the better, I've stopped letting other people decide for me, talk for me. I've grown up and it's all thanks to this book.

Another thing is that it's helped me understand that it's okay to grieve for someone. I'm someone who shovels my feelings into me and I don't let anyone see them, and seeing these characters grieve so openly for someone they cared about, told me that it's okay for MYSELF to do that.

Thank you so much, John Green. You honestly helped me realize so many things with LFA and I'm über grateful that you wrote it.

Happy 10 years! Here's to another 10!

When I first read looking for alaska and I got to that part in the middle (you know what I'm talking about) I was so angry with John that I threw the book across my room and couldn't pick it up to finish it for a month. I get why he did it, but thats still not an excuse. you can't just do that to people.

When I first read Looking for Alaska

My Sophomore year of high school I went on a class trip to West Virginia to look at a college. The bus ride was going to be a couple of hours so I figured I would take a book. I had already been watching the vlog brothers videos for a while so I figured it was time to read one of John's books. The whole bus ride I kept myself occupied by reading Looking for Alaska and finished the book right in time to see the University we were going to. The book itself was a roller coaster of emotions (not as much as the fault in our stars). As soon as I walked into the college store I began to search for the fault in our stars and grabbed it immediately so that I could read it on the way home (it had just came out).

-Kaitlyn

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