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Looking for Alaska
by John Green
3.5 Stars
Miles/Pudge Halter goes to boarding school where he finally makes some friends, one of which includes a girl called Alaska Young. Pudge learns how to smoke, prank people and fall in love. The book is split into two parts: Before and After. Before a bad thing happened and after a bad thing happened and how he deals with it
This book was okay but I definitely didn't love it. There were some parts I enjoyed, the pranks, the friendships, the blowjob story (hilarious) but I didn't feel totally connected to Pudge and Alaska. Pudge was very much a normal John Green-protagonist and maybe if I didn't already have Q and Augustus in my heart, there'd be room for Pudge but there wasn't as that space is full. Alaska actually irritated me most of the time. It's probably terrible but I feel like if she had gone to my school, I wouldn't have liked her and would have just classed her as an annoying attention-seeker. There's some things she did that kind of annoyed me, like yelling at the Colonel for 'objectifying women' when he mentioned Lara's breasts but then did things like tell Pudge in a flirty way not to stare at her butt while climbing out the window, which he was obviously going to end up doing cause she told him not to (?) and then do very flirty things and then go on about how much she loved her boyfriend.
I felt a bit bored for most of the first half of the book mainly because I felt like I'd already read a similar storyline in The Perks of Being A Wallflower - guy goes to new school, is introvert and likes to read. Makes friends with guy and girl. They introduce him to smoking, drinking and general debauchery. Falls in love with girl. Shit ensues.
The second half was a bit better and i do like how Takumi and Lara were still in the little loop. I didn't feel particularly emotional about anything that happened. I also guessed the whole reason for the freakout really early on as well so it was annoying it took everyone else so long. And then they didn't really figure it out in the end. So yeah, glad i finally read it but definitely not my favourite John Green book, that's still reserved for Paper Towns or TFIOS (I can't really decided because TFIOS (!) and then Paper Towns was my first JG foray).
Miles/Pudge Halter goes to boarding school where he finally makes some friends, one of which includes a girl called Alaska Young. Pudge learns how to smoke, prank people and fall in love. The book is split into two parts: Before and After. Before a bad thing happened and after a bad thing happened and how he deals with it
This book was okay but I definitely didn't love it. There were some parts I enjoyed, the pranks, the friendships, the blowjob story (hilarious) but I didn't feel totally connected to Pudge and Alaska. Pudge was very much a normal John Green-protagonist and maybe if I didn't already have Q and Augustus in my heart, there'd be room for Pudge but there wasn't as that space is full. Alaska actually irritated me most of the time. It's probably terrible but I feel like if she had gone to my school, I wouldn't have liked her and would have just classed her as an annoying attention-seeker. There's some things she did that kind of annoyed me, like yelling at the Colonel for 'objectifying women' when he mentioned Lara's breasts but then did things like tell Pudge in a flirty way not to stare at her butt while climbing out the window, which he was obviously going to end up doing cause she told him not to (?) and then do very flirty things and then go on about how much she loved her boyfriend.
I felt a bit bored for most of the first half of the book mainly because I felt like I'd already read a similar storyline in The Perks of Being A Wallflower - guy goes to new school, is introvert and likes to read. Makes friends with guy and girl. They introduce him to smoking, drinking and general debauchery. Falls in love with girl. Shit ensues.
The second half was a bit better and i do like how Takumi and Lara were still in the little loop. I didn't feel particularly emotional about anything that happened. I also guessed the whole reason for the freakout really early on as well so it was annoying it took everyone else so long. And then they didn't really figure it out in the end. So yeah, glad i finally read it but definitely not my favourite John Green book, that's still reserved for Paper Towns or TFIOS (I can't really decided because TFIOS (!) and then Paper Towns was my first JG foray).