"I go to seek a great perhaps." 
 Good for you, Pudge, that sounds pretentious and inspiring, what a shame you'll be over this "great perhaps" thing before the second half of the book starts. 
 This is John Green's glorious first novel. I like the guy, he's pretty cool and I totally support his "nerdfighter" community, but this book was just bad. He could've stuck to being a funny YouTube dude who makes dorky comments. Every sentence in this book sounded like he was a 10-year-old trying too hard to impress his English teacher. And the plot? It didn't even have a proper plot It was a mess, something about teens who are depressed and smoke and think they're special snowflakes. Of course, every single other kid in the high school is exactly the same as them, but they're the cooler ones, the sadder and the more misunderstood ones. 
 Alaska was my biggest problem with the book. She's not believable at all. She's a drama queen, she's hot, she complains a lot, she's mega hot, she is also super intelligent, she's really hot, and she's obsessed with a very annoying and tediousbook. Did I mention that she was hot? Because John Green didn't miss any opportunity to bring that up and he treated that fact as if it affected her as a character a lot. Look, I don't care if she's got an ass or not, okay? 
 Alaska is surprisinglythe perfect match for our male protagonist, Miles Halter, a.k.a. Pudge, a character who's really boring and in whose head you'll have to live in the entire freaking book. When John Green introduced a Romanian girl I was like "yeah, cool, she's Romanian, just like me," but the girl (who didn't even have a Romanian name, "Lara" is not Romanian) turned out to be the most slut-shamed character and also Pudge kind of used her? To get to Alaska? Or something like that, I didn't really understand that. 
 If you liked this, okay, but I found it a big waste of time. I could've read something more exciting, but, eh, I was going through the awkward John Green phase. It's not exactly the kind of book that I'll remember over the years...