Looking for Alaska

"You Know What I Enjoyed This A Lot More Than I Thought I Would"

"I can see why this book is so highly spoken of. John Green's prose is very unique and really comes alive in this book. <br/><br/>To be honest, the first two times I read this, I was reading it as if the characters were going to college and were sort of immature sometimes. But when I read it this time and realized that it's just a bunch of high school aged kids attending boarding school it made a bit more sense. I don't know what boarding schools are like but I do know that their experience was quite unique. <br/><br/>The characters seemed older than they really were but that is probably because we were seeing the story from a freshman boy's perspective. Miles "Pudge" is our narrator and MC. Chip "the Colonel" is Pudge's roommate and is wicked smart. Each of the characters were multi-layered but still fairly like high school kids, if you exclude their extraordinary way of speaking. <br/><br/>The plot was decent. It mainly was about pranks and the characters getting to know each other. I enjoyed the pranks and the reactions after them. It was okay, I suppose. <br/><br/>I just still can barely believe that they are high schoolers. They act like college students. I mean, it explains why the smoking and drinking was so wrong and the extreme consequences if you did. But the way each character talked was so much older than they really were. Ah well. <br/><br/>1 star for the prose, one for the message, and the final for the extraordinarily well created characters."

"I felt this book was all right. If I read it when I was 14 - 16 I might have enjoyed it more then. But now at 21, I need something more thought provoking."

"Read it in my freshman year of high school. It’s a short book with lovable characters"

"one of my favorites"

"Just…. Wow. John Green did it again. I don’t think anyone has broke my heart quite like he has."

"I strongly dislike books about rebellious teenagers. They make me very angry and this was no exception. I didn't like the characters and their one shining moment was at the end of the story. I won't go into the specifics due to spoilers but if you read it you may know what I am talking about."

"Usually I give 1 star reviews for books that are so incredibly boring because that’s what I hate most about books. For this book however, it had an interesting plot but it just wasn’t for me. I didn’t like that I couldn’t understand the main character or the colonel. I didn’t like both of their personalities and I didn’t agree with their beliefs so it was hard for me to like them. "

"This is the book that got me into reading. It was written beautifully and one of the reasons that John Green is my favorite author. "

"not a fan :/"