1) I love (love, LOVED) Will Grayson, Will Grayson.
2) 8,000 people have told me to read Alaska.
3) It won the Printz award.
4) The Vlog brothers are pretty awesome.
So I expected to like it, and hoped for a Will Grayson, Will Grayson OMG-I-love-this-book response to it. The first sign that I'd get what I hoped for was reading the acknowledgments--if that perfunctory page is witty and entertaining and impressively written, it's usually a sign that the reader is in for a treat.
I loved Miles's voice, I loved the characterization--all of the characters in Alaska are rich and real and satisfyingly complex. The story balances hilarious mischief and realistic teenage experiences/emotions/relationships with moving meditations on life, love, tragedy, and religion. I have such a soft spot for books that touch on Big Philosophical Issues in organic and entertaining ways. Looking for Alaska did such a fantastic job of that.
And then as I flipped to the last page, I found this post-it someone had snuck into the copy I saved from a closing Borders: (warning: text of the last paragraph is visible!)
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| Nerdfighter note! |
Love, love, love it.
8 comments:
Love that book SO much. Hello to and from a fellow Nerdfighter! :)
Love this book. Love John Green. Nerdfighter? HECK YES, HELLO (please insert the Nerfighter gang sign here)
DFTBA!
Oh, god, I love LFA so much. It's just so damn good. And my friend bought a copy the other day and there were 2 nerdfighter notes in it! I think that's the coolest thing ever *is tempted to stick post-its reading DFTBA into all John Green books she sees*
Yeah, as you can tell, I'm a nerdfighter :D
LOL @ the post it in the back! That is just TOO funny!
this was my first John Green and I think for that reason it's my fave of his (probably b/c I am sentimental like that :D)
I loved this book so much. John Green is an awesome writer and the characters in this novel really stood out to me for some reason! I have yet to read Will Grayson, Will Grayson but I hope to get to that soon.
Love that note! Now I want to go to my closing Borders and put notes in any copies I find.
Cool note. I also love it when a book manages to throw in philosophical themes in and organic way.
I also feel compelled to go stick post-it notes in LFA and other favorite books. It's so awesome how John Green not only writes amazing books but has created a wonderful community of readers!
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