Twelve kinds of taste
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Fiction, Boarding schools, Death, Grief
Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet).
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Intimate, overwhelming, character-led and contemporary.
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On Open Library, 212 have read it and 1,504 want to.
“THE WEEK BEFORE I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party.”
John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. Starting in 2007, John and his brother Hank were the hosts of a popular internet blog, "Brotherhood 2.0," (aka [vlogbrothers](https://www.youtube.com/@vlogbrothers)) where they discussed their lives, books and current events every day for a year except for weekends and holidays.
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
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“Is Looking for Alaska better than The Fault in Our Stars?”
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“Does the ending land?”
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“Is Looking for Alaska a masterpiece, not merely a very good book?”
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