Comments on: Looking for Alaska by John Green (2005) http://startnarrativehere.com/2010/03/looking-for-alaska-by-john-green-2005 a journal of bibliophilic tendencies Mon, 07 May 2012 22:59:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Alyssa (Redhead Heroines) http://startnarrativehere.com/2010/03/looking-for-alaska-by-john-green-2005/comment-page-1#comment-1551 Alyssa (Redhead Heroines) Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:52:48 +0000 http://startnarrativehere.com/?p=1383#comment-1551 I agree that Alaska's character was a bit too contrived towards male fantasies, but I think Green tried to counteract that by making her a feminist. I'm not completely convinced that it worked out, but the entirety of the novel was an overall success! - Alyssa of Redhead Heroines <a href="http://redheadheroines.blogspot.com/2011/12/book-review-of-looking-for-alaska-by.html" rel="nofollow">Book Review of “Looking for Alaska” by John Green</a> I agree that Alaska’s character was a bit too contrived towards male fantasies, but I think Green tried to counteract that by making her a feminist. I’m not completely convinced that it worked out, but the entirety of the novel was an overall success!

- Alyssa of Redhead Heroines
Book Review of “Looking for Alaska” by John Green

]]> By: Steph http://startnarrativehere.com/2010/03/looking-for-alaska-by-john-green-2005/comment-page-1#comment-216 Steph Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:16:55 +0000 http://startnarrativehere.com/?p=1383#comment-216 It might help if I include the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkoBoF9FDXg It might help if I include the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkoBoF9FDXg

]]> By: Steph http://startnarrativehere.com/2010/03/looking-for-alaska-by-john-green-2005/comment-page-1#comment-215 Steph Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:16:01 +0000 http://startnarrativehere.com/?p=1383#comment-215 Hahaha - yes a definite no to the Michael Cera as Miles! I was going to say someone more like Jesse Eisenberg, but I feel like he'd be more suited to Colin from <i> An Abundance of Katherines</i>, which would definetely be the book I'd recommend to read next. It's probably my favourite of Green's books. Also because I feel like John Green is a pretty awesome dude: Hahaha – yes a definite no to the Michael Cera as Miles! I was going to say someone more like Jesse Eisenberg, but I feel like he’d be more suited to Colin from An Abundance of Katherines, which would definetely be the book I’d recommend to read next. It’s probably my favourite of Green’s books.

Also because I feel like John Green is a pretty awesome dude:

]]> By: Jess http://startnarrativehere.com/2010/03/looking-for-alaska-by-john-green-2005/comment-page-1#comment-214 Jess Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:05:47 +0000 http://startnarrativehere.com/?p=1383#comment-214 Steph, squee away! Despite my very Alaskan like whine about Manic Pixie Dream Girl-ness I did really enjoy it. I think it would make a great movie too, provided there was a good team behind it, and preferably <em>not</em> Michael Cera as Miles ;) I've got Green's other two books out from the library at the moment, any suggestion on which one to go to next? Steph, squee away! Despite my very Alaskan like whine about Manic Pixie Dream Girl-ness I did really enjoy it. I think it would make a great movie too, provided there was a good team behind it, and preferably not Michael Cera as Miles ;) I’ve got Green’s other two books out from the library at the moment, any suggestion on which one to go to next?

]]> By: Steph http://startnarrativehere.com/2010/03/looking-for-alaska-by-john-green-2005/comment-page-1#comment-213 Steph Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:52:59 +0000 http://startnarrativehere.com/?p=1383#comment-213 So glad you reviewed this! Was great to hear your thoughts on it. John Green is one of my favourite YA authors and if you haven't seen his nerdfighter/youtube videos, you should as he is an all-round awesome dude. His two other books are fairly similar (each with their own Manic Pixie Dream Girl) but still, in my opinion, very enjoyable. I love that he always writes great supporting/best friend characters - which I feel often are a bit lacking in YA. Josh Schwartz was working on a screenplay for this a while back - I'd love to see what he does with it. Anyway, just wanted to squee pretty much :) So glad you reviewed this! Was great to hear your thoughts on it. John Green is one of my favourite YA authors and if you haven’t seen his nerdfighter/youtube videos, you should as he is an all-round awesome dude. His two other books are fairly similar (each with their own Manic Pixie Dream Girl) but still, in my opinion, very enjoyable. I love that he always writes great supporting/best friend characters – which I feel often are a bit lacking in YA.

Josh Schwartz was working on a screenplay for this a while back – I’d love to see what he does with it.

Anyway, just wanted to squee pretty much :)

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