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Yes.  I cried a lot.  But it is very, very satisfying in the end.  But it results in more crying.

I felt the same way. I think it speaks to what an amazing writing John is that he could create a fictional character out of his own head that we were devastated to lose. I agree that you should keep reading. Anytime you have to deal with someone's death, it helps to go through the grieving process with other people, and the rest of the characters in the book felt just as strongly about Alaska as all of us readers did, so you can go through the grieving process along with them.

Yeah. I was in the middle of my school's library when I got to that part.
I bet people thought I was psycho or something, because I didn't stop sobbing for another fifty pages or so.
Looking For Alaska is one of the saddest books I've ever read. It's also one of the best. Just one more reason I'm so happy I found Brotherhood 2.0, because if I hadn't I don't know if I ever would have heard of John Green.

I just finished Looking for Alaska, and I couldn't put it down. But the second I read that Alaska was leaving, I knew she wasn't coming back. I cried, and the rest of the pages seemed so empty without her. That isn't supposed to sound negative; the whole book was spectacular, but there was a noticeable void without Alaska. Pudge and the Colonel were desperately trying to fill it by answering the how and the what and the why of her death.

Oh, such a great read.

I lent Looking for Alaska to basically everyone I know, and every single one of them cried.
My favourite response to it was when I lent it to my friend this summer, and she was meeting me after work. I came outside and she was sitting there on this bench bawling her eyes out and she was like YOU GAVE ME A STUPID COMING OF AGE BOOK ABOUT A NERDY BOY WHO THINKS BOARDING SCHOOL WILL MAKE HIS LIFE BETTER AND I CAN'T PUT IT DOWN AND ALASKA JUST DIED AND I'M CRYING IN PUBLIC AND YOU BETTER BUY ME ICECREAM RIGHT NOW.
And everyone around us was like "oh god don't make eye contact with the crazy people!"

I think what really hit me was the funeral. Especially the part where Miles knelt at the casket...

I felt the Colonel's small hands on my shoulders, and a tear dripped onto my head, and for a few moments, it was just the three of us--the buses of students hadn't arrived, and Takumi and Lara had faded away, and it was just the three of us--three bodies and two people...

That whole paragraph and scene really got me, but that part especially. :[ I don't normally cry over books. D:

I don't know if it's just me but when I read John's book it is his voice in my head reading the words. Anyways.....I loved the character Alaska and it did feel empty when she died but as the book says life must go on.

I would have to say Looking for Alaska is one of the best books I have ever read.
If you nerdfighters like Looking for Alaska then you should find The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. Its the same kind of book Im sure you all would like it.

SgtPeppers87 wrote:

I don't know if it's just me but when I read John's book it is his voice in my head reading the words. Anyways.....I loved the character Alaska and it did feel empty when she died but as the book says life must go on.

I would have to say Looking for Alaska is one of the best books I have ever read.
If you nerdfighters like Looking for Alaska then you should find The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. Its the same kind of book Im sure you all would like it.

I had John's voice in my head while reading the book, too! It's odd--from watching B2.0, John is probably the writer I know best outside of his books. (Odd in a neat way, for sure.)

I actually have a heart of ice, so I wasn't really affected while Alaska died. Honestly, I preferred the other characters in the book. They seemed much more real to me. Alaska's character bothered me a little, but I enjoyed the emotional journey others went through after her death. (The Colonel even gets angry and calls her self-centered, a point I'm glad was brought up.)

Definately! I knew that she had to be dead, but I couldn't help thinking that Pudge and the Colonel will find out that it's not real, because she just can't be!

i love the book! i was so sad when she died! i was almost crying for almost an hour!

I did feel very sad when Alaska died, but I felt more shock than sadness at the time of her actual death. I did finally get choked up when Mr. Hyde wrote her question on the board though. I'm not sure why that part got to me, but it did.

The book is sad at parts, but it is a great book. Truly, one of the best I've ever read.

I hoped the entire beginning of the book that the before and after was for the super prank they were playing,  but I obviously figured it out by the time it was a few days before it happened >< I cried and I never cry for books.

(Oddly enough, thats what convinced one of my friends to read it, since well...it has to be good if it made me cry?)