Looking for Alaska

                For my first blog post about books, I kind of wanted to start of a little easier to gain the feel for this kind of thing. To start, I wanted to talk about my favorite book of all time, Looking for Alaska by John Green.

                This is my favorite book by far for many, many reasons. The first reason is I love the way it is written and formatted. I just think the way John Green laid out the book was genius because he just starts the story and you are just thrown into the story of Miles’ boring, uneventful life. That is until he meets some friends who are about to change his life forever. When he meets these incredible people, his life is suddenly changed from boring to crazy and unpredictable.

                I think that was perfect because it describes how life is for most everyone. Most people are just living life and suddenly something changes and then you have to change to compensate for that major change. Once you get settled in that new life, something else changes. Without change everything would be the same and it would all be boring.

                I also really like the fact that I couldn’t really predict what was going to happen next. In most other books I read, I can normally predict that the girl is going to end up with the guy, or the good guy is going to die before the villain is killed. However, in this, what I predicted to happen, happened really early in the novel and it confused me because I didn’t know what else could happen. I thought that was fantastic in because it kept me fully engaged in the read and I never wanted to put it down.

                One last thing I loved about this book, is the way it sounded in my head when I read it. When I read it, it wasn’t one of those “grammatically perfect” languages. It was more of the language I would use when I’m talking which made it easier to pick up on and kept me more engaged than if it was just plainly telling the story. Green made you really feel like you were Miles while reading it, just because of the way he used “I” and “we” when he was talking about Miles going out with friends, and when I read those parts I got goose bumps. I still do get goose bumps every time I read or think about it because it just made me realize many things, such as don’t take anything for granted because one moment, it could be there and the next it could be gone.