Looking for Alaska question

I agree with you 100%.
I couldn't really connect with either Pudge or Alaska.
I guess it's because I'm just such a dfferent person. It also didn't really seem very suprising to me Alaska died. It didn't even matter to me. I just tried getting through the book as fast as possible.
It was just so hyped and in my opinion so overrated in the end.
I do love John Green, but just didn't like the plot/plot twist.

Yes.

I agree. It's a good book, but the hype that surrounds it is not very well-deserved.

disagree. this book was really amazing

this book is awesome. I haven't heard anything about this book that suggest it being overrated.

So overrated. I don't get it. The characters themselves make such a large amount of bad decisions and generally do things that people shouldn't do. The relationships between the characters the majority of the time feels forced and not genuine. I don't get Miles's attraction to Alaska as she is one of the least likeable characters I've ever read.
The after to me is just forgettable as in I can barely remember what happened after she died. They were sad right and then they go to the police and do loads of weird things that were dumb.
So yeah I did not like this book at all.

I think so. I really did enjoy the book, but I had such high expectations from all the hype that I ended up being disappointed. It was good, but I didn't think it was great.

Yes
(not a bad book just not THAT good)

Yep, overrated.

I had never even heard of the book until I saw it on Kindle when I was looking for something new to read...over a year ago, maybe? It was okay, but nothing I would really go crazy over or read it again. The whole book was just depressing to me, I don't know. I don't think I would recommend it or anything.

I agree completely.

I've wanted to read this book for a while, but when i finally picked it up a couple weeks ago.... bleh. It was ok, i guess, but i felt like i couldn't connect to the characters or to the story at all. Definitely agree that this one's overrated.

I didn't enjoy this book at all. All of my friends were talking about it and saying how good it was so I picked it up expecting something brilliant. And it's not just that it didn't live up to my expectations of this particular book, it didn't live up to my expectations of what ANY book should be. I couldn't relate with any of the characters and when Alaska died I didn't feel anything; Alaska was my favourite character out of the whole book! After that when Pudge was sad/depressed, I found myself glad that he was sad because I hated his character so much! The only thing this book achieved for me was making me feel like a bad person. I do like some of John Green's ideas though and enjoyed about the last 15 pages.

Totally! I was so surprised that it was getting this much hype! I found it weird, boring, and disgusting. I can't believe that I even finished the book!

Actually I feel that it way under rated!

I agree. I read it in the end of December and I found it a concatenation of stereotypes.

I do think it's a bit over rated but nonetheless it's a book I enjoyed, although the second part of the book was a bit slow.

Just finished reading it and yes, it was a bit lame. The only character I liked was Chip. Sorry that Alaska died buthey if you are going to drive drunk and emotional,then bad things are going to happen.

I don't think that I would really recommend this particular John Green novel.

Yes.

Totally agree. The before part was promising but the after part was plain. Too bad.

Bleh. It totally is, no offense to anyone who enjoyed it. Read it just last year .. It was bad.

when i first started reading it i thought this was like "omg how will i get through this book?", but then when i got to know the characters and everything they did, i started liking the book. there were so many hints to what would happen to alaska in the book that when that happened i was like "omg, i knew it" and then i was sad.

I'm afraid I have to buck the trend. I loved this book! It was recommended to me by my daughter, and I had no fore-knowledge of what it would be like. It ended up as one of my most favorite books of all time.

I think The Fault In Our Stars is overrated compared to Looking for Alaska. Actually, I haven't even seen as much publicity over this book (most likely because it hasn't been transformed into a movie) but after Paper Towns, it's my second favourite John Green novel.

Absolutely! I felt the same way; after everone had talked it up so much, it really fell flat for me. That is basically the point of the review I wrote about it a few months ago here: https://leggingsareneverpants.wordpre...

I loved this book, I don't think its overrated at all and I just bought it so I could reread it. However, this was the first of John Green's book that I read and after reading most of his others I'm afraid I'm not going to like it because I'll have a sense of how similar all the books are.

I totally agree! I also kind of felt like it was copied off of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and I liked that book more.

In my opinion, it was a horrible book.

You spend most of the book looking for Alaska, then she dies and I felt nothing. When Tris(SPOILER!!) died, I was sad!!

I think the book is definitely overrated.

I enjoyed the book, and it's probably my favorite thing by John Green. Now that people have read and reread it, it's really getting overrated, but from what I remember it was pretty good, compared to other things by John Green, know what I mean? Wait, I take that back I liked Paper Towns heheh.

I don't think that this book is overrated. Compared to The Fault in Our Stars, this book practically amounts to nothing, if we are talking about being overrated.

Yes. I thought it was alright but not worth all of they hype. I thought it was funny and witty, a little stupid at parts but was worth the stupidity, had some pretty great pieces of wisdom, but above all was so freaking predictable.

Ellice wrote: "I realise I may get some hate for this question but however! I had heard so much hype about this book before reading and I was so excited when I ordered it.. but once I read it I felt kind of dis..."
I agree with you. I hated this book so much at first that I basically finished reading it so that I could rightfully tell people I didn't like it. I was astounded by the rave reviews when I cracked open the book myself, and gave it one star on goodreads with 15 pages left to go. I'm assuming that maybe people in the teenage age group liked this book because it was hyped on sex and drugs, but personally, that turns me off. But within the last fifteen pagers, there was some unfailingly deep and good wisdom. I liked the quote on the last page about not being irreplaceably broken. Overall, I would give the book three stars, and that's generosity. I honestly just couldn't connect with Alaska and most of the other characters which was probably why the book appears so overrated to me.

I agree. Though i felt the book is focusing about pranks while there should be a better way to finish it

I am kind of torn actually. I think it was a really good books because of the ideas and emotions that the characters explored throughout the book. However, overall I felt like it was a bit of a let down.

I liked it a lot until the AFTER portion of the book. I thought Pudge became really unlikable then and I was able to predict the thing with her mom. It was still a decent read, but, yeah, it does seem a bit overhyped, IMO.

While I really liked Looking for Alaska, I thought that The fault in our stars had more exitement around it than it really deserved. And I get lots of hate for that.

Looking for Alaska was just okay. The first part made me feel like I was on a fun car ride with friends. The second part is absolute crap. John Green didn't really do a great job on exploring themes of death and forgiveness and all that sappy stuff. He was trying to say something meaningful in this book, and he just failed. I didn't connect to any of the characters. I didn't care for them.

Okay. This book was okay. I really enjoyed the BEFORE part of the book, but after that I really hated it. I mean, this book had so much potential! John Green, I feel like, just gave up after the whole car crash thing and there needed to be more clues towards the final solution... you know? Also, I feel like there needed to be more romance between Alaska and Pudge because I understood that he cared for her as a friend and then more than a friend practically immediately but I think there would have been significantly more emotional appeal in the later part of the novel if Alaska and Pudge were truly happy with each other and their friends made fun of them or something. I don't know... Just disappointed.

Very.

I TOTALLY agree with you. I didn't like this book AT ALL. When I bought it I was super excited, everyone was "you're gonna love it, so amazing! Also you're gonna cry a lot". I didn't cry, everything was kinda obvious and the reveal of what happened to Alaska wasn't new to the reader, it wasn't "a big thing". In my opinion, The Fault In Our Stars is much better, I cried and I love everything about that story.
This book left me like "MEH :// "
(Sorry if there's any typos - italian girl here!)

Oh god I'm so glad someone has said this!
I honestly did enjoy this book in the beginning but lost any connection to the characters about half way through. I didn't feel anything after Alaska's car crash, I think it was meant to be sad? But instead I was just angry at how silly she was. Also the writing was at times very lazy. “At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.” Okay...
I expected a lot from this novel so maybe I let myself down.
That being said I went on the read paper towns and actually loved it. Go figure!

I think I just liked the book because of the way that it's written and because Alaska dies but I was expecting more of John Green.

Yes! I didn't really like this book...

Ellice wrote: "I realise I may get some hate for this question but however! I had heard so much hype about this book before reading and I was so excited when I ordered it.. but once I read it I felt kind of dis..."

I would kind of agree with you, since I tried to read this book just to see why so many other people say that it's good. But I couldn't even finish it and I stopped reading it altogether.

The book wasn't great but it was okay. I didn't really get into that book. I usually "fall in love" with at least one character but here it just didn't happen.

I did like the book, but I agree that it was overrated. It was just okay. It is definitely not John Green's best book, in my opinion.

Not at all, I loved it. My favorite John Green novel.

Looking for Alaska, although I enjoyed it. I thought it was good but not "best book ever!" kind of good. I thought it was a good read. Now that I'm reading Paper Towns however, I think I can just say it's okay. It's the same formula of the story centering around a girl. The boy MC being obsessed with this girl. At least for two straight books. I also thought he was trying hard to make this book meaningful, and such. But it just didn't quite make it all the way there.