Book Review: Looking for Alaska by John Green

Looking for Alaska by John Green
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

"I go to seek a Great Perhaps." -François Rabelais

"We are indestructible as we believe our selves to be." -Pudge

One of the books that I'll read over and over and over again!

"Some mysteries aren't meant to be solved." And it was a good reassurance, an enlightenment to me. Looking for Alaska proved to be a very promising and compelling. This book was written in a certain depth needed for personal, emotional growth. It was not mind-boggling at all but it was very emotionally stirring-- I laughed, I cried, I got mad and felt all other emotions while reading this beautiful book. It was so brilliant for it caters both mind and heart of the reader.
Although it took me a while, a week, to finish the entire thing, I felt so full of it like everything seethed within me. I am enlightened just like Banzan. Laughs.

This is my second book of Green and I would say that I like his style. Like what he did in Fault, he made a pretty sum-it-all-up in the end. Everything was just right and it worked perfectly for me. I love Green's point for this book, that we, teenagers, are balls of energy that are indestructible. And he is damn right that it's essential that we must learn not forget that as we grow up because as he has observed, adults are forgetting our capabilities and they tend to belittle us for we are young. That hit straight to my heart.


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Book Review: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It felt like it was never enough, that I have not read Fault in our Stars enough. In the end, I just settled with the thought, "this is an example of impasse because I'm trying to get a definite understanding of how and why life happens." I'll never get enough of this book and truth be told, I want to read it, again and again just like how Hazel reads An Imperial Affliction. Funny.

Damn it, I'm just a spilling faucet. Fault in our Stars is definitely a God-given gift to all of us who must remember that to matter doesn't mean to make things that matter, we just need to live. This three-hundred-and-thirteen-page-book is made out of sheer genius and it has brought all these raw emotions stored, deep inside you and transform them into coherent laughters, upheavals, groans and tears. It's a book I'll cherish for the rest of my sanity. It stirred so much inside me and I felt so alive after reading it. Now, I felt like I am forever in need of John Green's view of the world.

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To be honest, my entire emotion cannot be materialized into words at the moment because I'll end up ranting, that's for sure and I do not want that to happen. Me ranting would be like this:
I'm so constricted like my airways to what my belief is, is blocked at the moment. I felt so shunned.


Ok. I have to settle my self now. A very awesome book. I came to meet my new literary heroes-slash-inspirations. Thank you, John Green.

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