Looking for Alaska

Looking for Alaska John Green




Resenhas - Looking for Alaska


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Mariana 15/07/2020

''You never get me. That's the hole point.''
Poder revisitar "Quem é você, Alasca?" em inglês foi uma experiência maravilhosa. O texto é acessível e ao mesmo tempo ótimo para expandir o vocabulário, sem falar que a edição comemorativa da Harper Collins é linda!

''You spend your hole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it someday, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.'' - página 68.

''The five of us walking confidently in a row, I've never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us and we were invencible. The plan had faults, but we did not." - página 126.
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Cristian.Alves 05/06/2020

Perfeito
Até o momento meu livro favorito.
Não li outros livros do John Green porém esse me cativou muito. Acredito que o ambiente de ensino médio que me encontrava (idêntico ao do personagem principal do livro) gerou tal conexão.
O livro sabe transmitir os sentimentos que estão acontecendo durante a história e você vai se conectando cada vez mais.
Após o grande acontecimento do livro você começa a imaginar tudo que pode ter passado.
Ao final desse livro é impossível não ver a vida de uma forma diferente.
E a dica é assistam a série, é igualmente incrível.
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Thamy 28/05/2020

"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?"
I am exactly 15 years late to this trend, but I guess it's better late then never, right? Although, after reading this book, we realize that sometimes - most of times - we are just too late. And there's nothing we can do about it, except seeking for the Great Perhaps or our way out (maybe into) the labyrinth.
At the same time that I have much to say, I really don't wanna say anything at all, given that I feel everyone should experience Looking for Alaska in an individual, personal, unique and brave way - just like Alaska would have wanted.
I felt a lot of feelings and wanted to cry a lot of tears, while simultaneously diving into a sea of emptiness and nothingness, in the best philosophical-teenaged way possible.
"After all this time, it still seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out - but i choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but i choose it."
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Lets | @callmealasca 26/05/2020

Meu grande talvez
Quando li esse livro anos atrás, minha vida estava de cabeça para baixo e eu precisava ter alguém que me entendesse. Então uma amiga me recomendou esse livro que, com certeza, foi o meu grande talvez, minha nova chance, inspiração e esperança para momento que estava passando. Um livro que me ensinou a dizer "eu te amo", a não ignorar meus sentimentos e senti-los quando necessário. E entro resolvi ler em inglês.
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Dri 08/05/2020

Reler esse livro, agora em inglês, me fez lembrar do porquê que eu tinha gostado tanto dele anos atrás.

Lembrei de que ele fala muito sobre o ser humano, sobre fé, sobre sofrimento, relações, sentimento de culpa, dentre outros assuntos. Observei também como o autor nos faz enxergar as ambiguidades do mundo, além de entender a nossa necessidade de fazer parte de algo e estar presente na vida do outro. Entender que nem tudo tem uma resposta e nos mostrar o quanto estamos desesperados por buscar e alcançar coisas do futuro, sem ao menos viver esse momento que temos aqui e agora!

Termino essa leitura com o sentimento de que cada personagem teve algo a ensinar: suas vivências e a forma única de cada um sentir, compreender e ver o mundo e o outro, além das suas relações interpessoais e anseios... não sei explicar, mas o livro me faz enxergar o quanto a história do outro importa, como é bom dividir tempo com aquelas pessoas que amamos, de como é bom ter amigos.

Alaska Young nos faz refletir sobre muitos assuntos. Ela consegue ser uma personagem divertida e ao mesmo tempo ácida com todas as suas questões pessoais, mas não desgosto dela, apenas acho que, como muitas pessoas, ela se cobra demais e carrega traumas consigo que a faz ser infeliz e sombria.

Gosto de como o autor representa a amizade, principalmente entre Pudge e Colonel. Acredito que "Looking for Alaska" seja sim uma história de amor, do que o amor representa para cada um desses personagens. Acredito na intenção do autor de nos fazer refletir, verdadeiramente, no que seria esse "labirinto" de sofrimento e de como encontrar o tal caminho de saída dele. E vejo a sua tentativa de nos fazer entender a necessidade de nos darmos uma chance para viver algo novo, assim como Pudge se deu indo a Culver Creek em busca do seu "Great Perhaps".
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Flávia Barone 31/03/2020

Romance jovem que traz muitas ideias sobre a vida e a morte. Envolvente!
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Rick 28/03/2020

Coronavirus is a bitch.
Given that I couldn't do much else because I didn't have internet connection at the moment and Coronavirus made it all too impossible to seek for alternatives, I started reading Manga again, watching films and TV Series. That was all I did - still mad though - for the first 5 days of quarentine. In the 5th day I finished - again - a TV Series called The End of the Fucking World, which is about James, a boy who thinks himself to be a psychopath, and Alyssa, an impulsive girl who is an example of how sincerity can become a curse. They match, they are fucking cute, and regardless TEOTFW being, presumably, a teenager TV Series, it differs greatly in one very important thing, the teenager part.

Reaching adolescence is so painful (I'm not saying it's bad, it is just difficult for all os us). It's the one phase of life that you can't seem to find yourself fit in anywhere, you are either too childish for not trying to act like an adult or you just fail being an adult because you are so obviously trying too hard. Teenager TV Series are all the time about teen drama - which is shit - and/or sex - which is pretentious as fuck - and occasionaly about actually important things - like 13 Reasons Why, that although I haven't watched yet, I, at least, hope it to be a good TV Series because its main subject is dealing with depression. TEOTFW explores mental health issues (or at least the possibility of them existing, which in other words it means the mental health issues are being acknowledged for a start), love and how it's spoken with actions, not with words, and the use of alcohol, cigarretes, pot, and the connection to crimes as grave as murder. I do have to say that all these reasons come second to why I love TEOFTW so much. The main reason is that James and Alyssa are both very intriguing, interesting and unexpected characters, and how James only has Alyssa, and Alyssa only has James.

After I had finished watching this TV Series again, I was still too mesmerised to start watching something else. I can't say I was having good thoughts, they were mostly existentialist and none of the questions I had related to my life had answers. Seeing that it was all a dead-end discussion with myself, I skimmed through my stash of TV Series and films and found Looking For Alaska. LFA has always been my favourite book. I remember reading it the first time during the time I first ever considered myself to be part of a group of friends. I never really had friends before that, it was always just some people whom I talked to - or mostly people who talked to me. I was 15, I had just finished The Fault In Our Stars and I was thrilled to read another book by John Green, and I decided I would do it chronologically. So the first book was Looking For Alaska. I remember the black cover, so shiny and blacker than black itself. The only thing other than black were the title and the White Daisy Flower.

Mind me, I do cry reading books. I learned doing that by reading Nicholas Sparks, by the way.

LFA was different from the few books I had read up until then. And maye because of that - or maybe, as I believe, just because it was well written with that purpose - LFA shaped my personality and taught me how to (attempt to) deal with some things that were far more important.

As much as I wanted to rate every character and display all their qualities and flaws, I just don't think it'd be right. This book, more than any other, talks about friendship and how things that come together will, always and eventually, fall apart. Their friendship is built on the loyalty they have for each other, and although the TV Series takes a different route compared to the book as to what Pudge, The Colonel and Takumi do when you-know-who is found out to have done you-know-what, I still believe either way is fine because both reach the same sort of of result. As for the cinematographical version, they decided to show punishment, which is a way of showing frustration rather than anything else. The 3 boys did not act that way because they were ashamed, but because they were disappointed. As for the books, as disappointed as they might've been, they didn't seem to care much, friendship was more important than label. I just cannot decide which one is the best. So, back on track, the friendship is built on loyalty. Something important is the abuse of legal drugs by Alaska and The Colonel, which might not be just because of that, but one of the strong reasons is obviously their backgrounds. When I first read this book, I did not have a father, not a single day in my life, of those I could remember, was my father present, and pretty much because of that, I always saw my mum also as my dad. So getting to know The Colonel's background was different anyway, and important to me. I connected with The Colonel much more than I connected with Pudge, we even had the same dream. I didn't know either - I would know some months later - how it felt to lose a mum and feel guilty because just maybe you could've prevented it, and Alaska taught me that beforehand. I hadn't yet found a girl who I could really love. Not like love in films, books or other people stories, but love as in connection, the act of coming together. Just the smal miniscule tiny little almost-insignificant fact that Pudge never really fell in love with Alaska, but rather loved Alaska was good enough to show me - foreshadow is a better word, I believe - how it would go when it was time for me to find my Alaska.

The climax of this story is also very important to me. In the same way that I learned the aforementioned lessons by reading this book other than going through those situations myself, I also learned something very important when the book hit its climax. The feeling is really unique. And the silence also poses a different perspective. Throughout you whole life, you might think silence is when all the lights are turned off and you're off to sleep, that silence is when you run off to your hiding place so you can just sit and think, that silence is the outcome of not needing words like when you're about to kiss someone you hold dear. But when it's not you turning off the noise, but the noise being unheard by you, silence becomes so loud and deafening, and the absence of vibration only silence can provide turns out not to be so absent in your left chest. The Silence as silent as it might be when you're mourning is never silent enough to conceal your feelings.

Lastly, I do feel like it is true what Pude says at the end. I remember being a teenager myself, and I remember very well feeling invecible.

I miss those days so much.
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Julia.Martins 30/11/2019

Livro muito bem executado do John Green, todas as pontas são atadas e o autor não deixa nada sem conclusão. Pontos por isso. Ao mesmo tempo achei a protagonista Alaska extremamente irritante e em alguns momentos achei que o final dela fosse ser igual ao da protagonista de Cidade de Papel, tão irritante quanto. Felizmente o final de Alaska foi outro e isso deu um movimento e um desenrolar muito melhor para o livro. Acredito que a segunda parte - o AFTER, é muito mais revelador, dinâmico e sensível do que a primeira parte. O excesso de estrelismo e too coolness da Alaska na primeira parte do livro é simplesmente irritante. Tirando isso e os personagens secundários mal desenvolvidos, o livro é bem legal e merece ser lido, principalmente porque faz um entrelaçamento muito legal com um livro do Gabriel Garcia Márquez e achei extremamente primorosa a forma como isso foi usado ao longo do livro, como um questionamento central dos personagens. Vale a leitura.
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Rumors Says 03/12/2016

John Green, Looking for Alaska.
"Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die."

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

“I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with.”

"Maybe, I said. Everything's a maybe, isn't it?"
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Isa 01/12/2016

2.5 estrelas

Esta será provavelmente uma opinião muito impopular, mas eu não gostei deste livro - foi apenas OK.

Eu não gostei nem um pouco de 'Cidades de Papel' mas gostei de 'A Culpa é das Estrelas', então eu achei que seria uma boa idéia dar mais uma chance ao John Green. Mas eu achei essa estória tão semelhante a 'Cidades de Papel' de certa forma (um cara nerd se apaixona por uma menina louca, popular e linda sem razão aparente e fica obcecado por ela) e Alaska era ... bem, apenas irritante. Tudo nesse livro foi apenas "meh".

Eu entendo por que tantas pessoas gostam dessa estória, mas estou começando a achar que os livros de John Green simplesmente não são para mim.

site: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/931065978
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Will Fleherty 12/04/2015

Resenha da descoberta do labirinto e da saída do labirinto.
Eis um livrinho que a primeira vista nos parece simples e mastigado, mas nao é. Tudo bem que a linguagem e a trama adolescente enverga a história para algo super cliché, porém, com o desenrolar da historia, vemos que Green desenvolve algo muito mais chocante. O entrar no labirinto é o conhecer Alaska ( que de todas as personagens de Green, foi a mais apaixonante). E o sair dele é quando ele a deixa ir. Simples assim. Se não fosse a carga emocional. Como Green nos afeta tanto?
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