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Did anyone else hate this book?
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Oct 17, 2014 07:02AM
I was annoyed by the characters all along, but when a certain scene popped up between Miles and his new girlfriend, I almost stopped reading. That may have been the stupidest and most useless part in the book. Not only did it not add to the story, IMO it took away from the credibility of the author. I couldn't stand this book and struggled to finish it.
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If you did not like reading this book, you did it wrong.
To answer your question, 6041 people gave it a one star rating. So yes.
what I was really trying to say is that, come on, don't you have any humor? And did you not see the deeper thoughts John Green hid in the story? In my opinion the characters were razor-sharp. Well, except for Lara, which I could not stand either and thought she was needless. However, no need to criticize Looking for Alaska so much... Nevertheless, the "certain scene" was only funny and illustrated the ridiculous aspects of teenage life, and it was not meant to insult anybody or question the credibility of the author.
Maybe I was burned out by reading so many John Green books in succession. This was the third. I saw the humor in Paper Towns, and then in The Fault In Our Stars, but this book ended up sounding exactly like the other books. As a middle school teacher, I was hoping it would be something my students could read. The scene I referenced, however, disqualified this book as one I could recommend to them. I understand the ridiculous aspects of teenage life very well, since I am with them so much! I found that part to be so out-of-the-blue and didn't move the story forward. If books had ratings, that scene would have made this book rated R.
It would, wouldn't it?I have to admit that LFA was my first John Green book. After that I read The Fault in Our Stars, An Abundance of Kathetines and Paper Towns. And you are absolutely right, Paper Towns is a real masterpiece! And yes, I also hate these ...dirty...scenes. They simply do not move the story forward, as you said.
What... it's about the concept of the story, the point of it... It talks about the labyrinth of suffering and how these teenagers are trying to escape it... The message that the story brings is beautiful (and I am not just saying this because Alaska is my name XD)
I'd like to start by saying I have read it twice. Once in elementary school, then once again as I got older. (I thought maybe I had missed something due to lack of maturity).I didn't hate it but I did not understand everyone's obsession with it. It was just an average book to me. :( Really wanted to love it though.
i hated it.. Actually i just didn't get this book :/ And after reading around >250 books in my life i can't say i don't understand English :P but i just didn't get the point of it. i felt it lacking, like incomplete. thats all !
I for one loved every book of John Green, yes all of his work have the same plot. However even if the plots in his stories is the same, it portrays different struggles us teenagers are experiencing in the present and how we face the consequences that comes together with our every decision in life, sometimes we form relationships with others who are not the one we love, sometimes we take drastic measures just to see our loved ones even if they went away for us to move on, sometimes the ones we love just dies without any signs of them dying in the first place. Coming from a teenager, John Green's perception on how teenagers acts and makes their decisions are accurate. Maybe you hated the book because you have experienced otherwise or doesn't know anyone who have been experiencing what the characters experienced in the story. I'm sorry if I'm opposed to what most of you are saying to John Green's Looking for Alaska but it's one of my favorite books that I have read so far. I'm not bashing your opinions, I'm just stating mine...
I like John Green. And, yes, his books all have the same theme but I find that true with most authors whether they are YA or not.Of JG's books my least favorite was An abundance of Katherines.
I really didn't like Looking for Alaska. I forced myself to read it up to where I did because everyone is always raving about it. But when Alaska died, I ditched it. 'Not again, typical John Green', we had heard it all before!!!!I'm sorry to everyone who enjoyed this book, I do like John Green because of TFIOS but his main plot lines aren't particularly varied for these 2 books are they?
Protagonist falls in love. That person then dies. I was barely shocked, just exasperated.
Sorry, I know loads of people loved this book a lot, I just wasn't one of them.
Looking for Alaska was my first John Green book, and comparing that to The Fault in Our Stars... I don't know what happened. I hated Looking for Alaska, the characters were not that great, I did not understand the concept (especially when she died..), I did like the writing style however. But again comparing the two books I cannot believe it was the same author. The Fault in our Stars had amazing witty characters, the story line was phenomenal!
This was by far my favorite John Green book. I know there wasn't the happiest ending in the world, but hey, it's realistic. It pulls on the heart strings big time. I sat bawling when I read that book. John Green did an excellent job writing this book and making us fall for the characters just as hard as they fell for each other.
i think the book was so real like that what happens in real life maybe it was a reason that people hated it because why do we all read in the first place ? to escape reality bottom line, i think you guys are just shocked .
P.S: i enjoyed the book
Stone: i think the book was so real like that what happens in real life maybe it was a reason that people hated it because why do we all read in the first place ? to escape reality bottom line, i think you guys are just shocked .
P.S: i enjoyed the book
You are right about that, maybe that is probably one of the reasons I did not enjoy it! Everyone whether they want to admit it or not, enjoys HEA!
I read the fault in our stars, then looking for Alaska, then paper towns and as much as I loved TFIOS - I felt LFA and paper towns were a bit too similar and had something missing. The characters were too similar and it felt let Pudge and Quentin, Alaska and Margo were the same characters in a different setting.
I have a copy of an abudance of Katherines but I'm holding back on reading it for a while.
Dori wrote: "If you did not like reading this book, you did it wrong."No, John Green wrote it wrong.
Honestly, I hated it to the extreme. The story has no purpose and the ending was awful. Plus I hate books that include alot of new-experienced-sexual-plays for people like the male main character. The girl gets him to smoke & getting blow jobs while he wasn't like that in his parents' house, because he fell for her, and commit suicide?! Really?! Paper towns was better though. Different character than Alaska. Much better character.
Nick wrote: "To answer your question, 6041 people gave it a one star rating. So yes."well 207092 people gave it a 5 star rating so i think not
I first read TFIOS and i was really happy about it. That made me read more Green's books (Papertowns and Looking for Alaska) and i would say I was disappointed twice! Looking for Alaska. Too much smoking, drinking, sex, rules violation etc. Are all teens supposed to be really going through those kinds of experiences? There were few parts of the book that made me laughed, but that would not make me give it a 5 star rating. I almost stopped reading the book at around page 50 but I went on thinking that maybe it would change my first impression, but until the end, it did not. It might has something to do with the kind of books i like, but then, I loved TFIOS, so I don't know why a lot love the book. I haven't finished Papertowns yet,im at page 45 when i decided to read a diff book. I think, i'll just read it if I don't have any other books to read. It's not a must-read-book thing for me anyway, just like Lookig for Alaska.
It was a love hate relationship.
Hey guys, LfA is the only Green's book I read and it left me thinking, "and this is the guy everybody's fussing about?". It took me way to long to finish it and I only did it because it was a gift from someone special. I liked certain parts of it (the last words collection, his friendship with Colonel) but found it overall boring, pretentious and not believable.
Hi everyone. I felt exactly the same, bought this book on the 1st of September and finished it the second week of November.It was really boring and got me quite angry knowing that I could have got something so much better...But even so there was quite a lot of talk on this book and I thought it would be good which obviously wasn't the case. Very disappointing.
Hey!I think Looking for Alaska is not an EXCEPTIONAL book as it seems to be to all this people crying out loud how much they loved it. It goes too fast, concepts are fuzzy (or don't even exist), some scenes are extremely ridiculous...
I did not hate the book only because of some quotes.
Naomi wrote: "Hi everyone. I felt exactly the same, bought this book on the 1st of September and finished it the second week of November.It was really boring and got me quite angry knowing that I could have got..." i agree so much with you. the book took me way to long to read it. way too long as in over two months!
exactly!:D I just didn't like the main character.
I hated this book! I am done reading any of John Greens books.
I didn't necessarily hate the book, I just wasn't a fan of it. When that one random "BJ" scene happened between Miles & girlfriend, I couldn't stop laughing! I'm actually glad that part was in it because it was hilarious & that book needed it. I just personally didn't like it; and it's not necessarily wrong that to those of us who don't like it, it's not that we "did it wrong" it's just our opinion. There is no right & wrong way to express our opinions over our feelings towards a book.
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