All About YA discussion

If you've read Looking for Alaska by John Green, feel free to discuss it here with other members.

What did you guys think of this book? Alaska sort of annoyed me with her moodiness and such, but then I began to like her character or at least sympathize in the latter half of the book. I didn't like the instalove with Miles how he instantly loved Alaska basically.

I also disliked how Alaska was always "But I love my boyfriend" because I knew that was bs right from the start. It was annoying to me...

It was amazing.
I read this quite a while ago, and I loved it obviously.
Alaska was not my favorite character, honestly I disliked her, but not enough to dislike the story. I loved Miles though.
Although I would never go by this boarding school, drinking and drugs or whatever. I thought that was just something that had to be a part of the story, even though it was clearly sad that sixteen year olds were doing such.
Anything of John Green has been my favorite, I love him and his writing. How does he make me laugh even if I'm sobbing my eyes out on a bad day? I have no clue, but that's why I love his books so much.
If you haven't read this book, then you need to add it to your TBR pile and read it when you can :)

Read this one a long time ago. This was probably my first book in this genre, and I loved it! I must have really loved it because this one got hooked me to YA. I read all of Green shortly afterwards before branching out to other authors.
And yeah, I did find Alaska bit annoying, but not enough to dislike her.

I tried to read this book and couldn't continue after about a hundred pages or such (a little too draggy) and decided to just multi-plane read the whole book (meaning: start reading from random pages each time I pick up the book. Highly effective way to make me finish a book I didn't like.) And I didn't like it. I really didn't. Alaska was whiny, the insta love between Miles and Alaska, and the ending was seriously just first rate suicide glorifying. One thing I can never stand in books is suicide glorifying and JG sure did a good job of it in this book.