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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I liked this book. But I liked The fault in our stars a lot, lot, LOT more.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Looking for Alaska is a book I struggled with. It seemed an awful lot like Catcher in the Rye, which is one of the few required reading books I did not enjoy as a teenager. I kept waiting for something more exciting to happen, but it never did. The story moved slowly and Pudge frequently annoyed me. The only thing that kept me moving forward with this book were the few comical moments sprinkled throughout.
adventurous
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Encore une fois John Green nous surprend avec un livre bouleversant! J'ai beaucoup aimé la façon dont il est écrit surtout au niveau des caractères des personnage, en plus des exemples et des eseignements qui traversent l'ensemble de cette œuvre.
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I read this book for the first time when I was about 13 or 14. The famous quote about the labyrinth changed my life forever at the moment I read it. I felt like, for the first time since I’ve been fully aware of myself as a growing young adult, finally someone understood me and verbalised what I have been thinking and how I have been feeling.
This book is intended for 13-17-years olds and I don’t think that reading it at a later stage in your life could be as impactful or helpful unless you are maybe rereading it as I did now, as a 25-year-old, or unless you can put yourself in those high school shoes again. I feel a lot of people reading it later in life kind of cringe to it. Sure, there us cringe to it and I cannot claim it’s the best book ever, but it is so incredibly important to read, especially in the ages said above. Not just or necessarily because of the labyrinth part, but because of how it talks about loving someone, navigating life in the most turbulent moments of your life and grief. Miles’s thought process about Alaska’s death is truly real and disturbing and weird and incredibly sad, but at the end again, real. His thoughts and emotions are incredibly raw and clearly stated no matter how confused he feels. What I appreciate the most is how his intrusive thoughts were shown and he even says at the end of the book how he’s always surprised when he realises that other people have such weird and twisted and instrusive thoughts. Those are the most honest in this book. This is why I think this book is extremely important.
Sure, maybe it could have been better written or something and sure it’s explicit and I read a very shitty Croatian translation that did not do it justice, but who cares about all that? In the end, it makes you think. It makes you try to process this together with Miles.
For years, this book has been one of founding stones of my own fractured identity. I even almost completely forgot what it was about and avoided rereading it, but always claimed it as one of “my” books. Today, upon experiencing something trully stressful, I felt the need to read it again after about 10 years. Today, I am so used to the idea of the labyrinth that it didn’t faze me as much as the first time. But the way Alaska was made as a character and the way instrusive thoughts and grief were described struck me to the core, much differently than the first time. I’ve internalised much of this book without ever realising it. I feel like in some ways, I became my own version of both Alaska and Miles in the years after I read it the first time. Coming back to it, it was one of those things in life that shaped me and somehow it’s still shaping me, just in a different way today. I was at the same time aware and completely unaware if this.
I guess everyone has that book or that movie or that character or that person or that event or whatever that helped them shape themselves, that became part of their fractured core, something they always come back to when they try to find themselves. And I guess, this book is that for me alongside Silver Linings Playbook. My 13/14-year-old self found these two books/movies to be incredibly insightful even though she didn’t fully understand them. To be honest, I am okay with this. These books are a great and important read, so thank you John Green, I needed it as kid and I needed it as an adult. I suppose I might need it when I grow old. Who knows. We will see.
This book is intended for 13-17-years olds and I don’t think that reading it at a later stage in your life could be as impactful or helpful unless you are maybe rereading it as I did now, as a 25-year-old, or unless you can put yourself in those high school shoes again. I feel a lot of people reading it later in life kind of cringe to it. Sure, there us cringe to it and I cannot claim it’s the best book ever, but it is so incredibly important to read, especially in the ages said above. Not just or necessarily because of the labyrinth part, but because of how it talks about loving someone, navigating life in the most turbulent moments of your life and grief. Miles’s thought process about Alaska’s death is truly real and disturbing and weird and incredibly sad, but at the end again, real. His thoughts and emotions are incredibly raw and clearly stated no matter how confused he feels. What I appreciate the most is how his intrusive thoughts were shown and he even says at the end of the book how he’s always surprised when he realises that other people have such weird and twisted and instrusive thoughts. Those are the most honest in this book. This is why I think this book is extremely important.
Sure, maybe it could have been better written or something and sure it’s explicit and I read a very shitty Croatian translation that did not do it justice, but who cares about all that? In the end, it makes you think. It makes you try to process this together with Miles.
For years, this book has been one of founding stones of my own fractured identity. I even almost completely forgot what it was about and avoided rereading it, but always claimed it as one of “my” books. Today, upon experiencing something trully stressful, I felt the need to read it again after about 10 years. Today, I am so used to the idea of the labyrinth that it didn’t faze me as much as the first time. But the way Alaska was made as a character and the way instrusive thoughts and grief were described struck me to the core, much differently than the first time. I’ve internalised much of this book without ever realising it. I feel like in some ways, I became my own version of both Alaska and Miles in the years after I read it the first time. Coming back to it, it was one of those things in life that shaped me and somehow it’s still shaping me, just in a different way today. I was at the same time aware and completely unaware if this.
I guess everyone has that book or that movie or that character or that person or that event or whatever that helped them shape themselves, that became part of their fractured core, something they always come back to when they try to find themselves. And I guess, this book is that for me alongside Silver Linings Playbook. My 13/14-year-old self found these two books/movies to be incredibly insightful even though she didn’t fully understand them. To be honest, I am okay with this. These books are a great and important read, so thank you John Green, I needed it as kid and I needed it as an adult. I suppose I might need it when I grow old. Who knows. We will see.
creo que este libro se ha quedado impregnado en mi personalidad