Review by roaming_enn - Looking for Alaska

roaming_enn 's review for:

Looking for Alaska by John Green

3.75

emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

In the first part of the book, I was like, why am I reading this?? A bunch of boarding school kids trying to find meaning in their lives through sex, parties, and drinking and pulling stupid pranks on their enemies. With some philosophical musings in between. The Asian character didn’t feel as well written as they could have been.

And then the second part HIT like a ton of bricks, and the book suddenly became much more than that.

Still a lot of drinking, but drinking for different reasons. There was a final prank in there for good measure. I have mixed feelings about the book, but ultimately I liked more of it than not. Its discussion about death and grieving was great. I love the idea of learning everyone’s last words to find out about how they lived and died,

and ultimately scrapping that method for something else.

I read this on audio, so Wil Wheaton being the narrator was amazing!

“If only we can see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless.”

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