Finished Su 6/16/19
I got this book from Amazon in hardback after watching Sarah Polley's documentary film, 'STORIES WE TELL'. She was going to make a film of this book, but the project fell through. I also learned that although this book is a fantastic 'Coming of Age/ Young Adult Novel', it has been banned in many places.
John Green attended Indian Springs School outside of Birmingham, Alabama, graduating in 1995. He used Indian Springs as the inspiration for the main setting of his first book, 'Looking for Alaska'.
The book is divided into two sections: Before the death of Alaska Ward, and then After her passing. The days are 'counted down', before and after.
Link to the documentary on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stories_We_Tell
I loved the book and it's one of my favorite 'coming of age' tales.
There is a lot of cigarette smoking in the book, but it was not anything that would shock even a young teenager. And the sex scenes (there really is only one) is quite believable and would hardly raise a youngster's eyebrow. Have 'these old people' checked out some of the sex on, 'The Worldwide Charlotte's Web'?
The book's page on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_for_Alaska
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