** spoiler alert ** 
 Yuck. I can't believe John Green got away with this. I don't care if Alaska is a "deconstructed" manic pixie dream girl, reading about her was still excruciating. Everything that happened in this book seemed like an obvious setup for a predictable outcome. I had a hard time caring that Alaska died. I tried really, really hard. She (obviously, and I believe this was the intent of Green) didn't feel real to me, anyway, And she was an annoying, self-centered brat. She was supposed to seem smart, but the only insightful thing she said (about the labyrinth) seemed contrived. Somehow, this book made me like The Fault in Our Stars even less, and I loved that book at the time. Maybe it's because I just read Eleanor and Park, a book that totally blew this stuff out of the water. I was relieved when Looking for Alaska was over.