Pudge is just as awkwardly in enthralled with Alaska as he was in the book, and though most of feelings are internalized through thought in the story, I feel the actor who portrays him is right on the money. The whole cast, for that matter, is exactly how I imagined them way back in 2010.

As hard and embarrassing as it is to admit I've been in love with Alaska since I was 13 and the actress (forgive me for forgetting her name) absolutely nailed her incredible, loving, profound, and as the Colonel puts it, moody personality. The show (as of the 3rd episode) has been damn near as moving and enthralling as the novel was for me. I seem to have been waiting for a screen adaptation for nearly 10 years and somehow I never wanted it to get made, thinking that there was no way it could be at the caliber that I found the book. I read it for the first time in 2010 and it's safe to say it's my favorite book being that I've read it 12 times and have most of the pages highlighted like a bible. You just use the future to escape the present.I'm 3 episodes in and I'm actually stunned at how well they captured the tone of the book. (.) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. 'Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

Overall, I think this book deserves five stars. Everything that might offend people is there for a reason.Īs for the actual story, it's about Miles Halter, who is fascinated by last words, and how he goes to a boarding school and meets Alaska Young. However, without these, this book would be entirely different - and probably not as powerful. There is a good amount of drinking/drugs/smoking.

If you read this book with a parent (like I did) I think a younger age would be suitable.įor additional warnings for parents, I would say this: The characters are fully developed and the description is stunning.Īs for the 14+ rating, I this is the rating if you read it alone. Like all John Green books, it is written beautifully. And yes, it's on the banned booklist, but this is a book aimed at the YA crowd for YA readers, so saying that teens can't read about other teens facing the same problems they might face sort of defeats the purpose. I think that everyone should read this, especially teenagers. Despite the 16+ rating, I read this book when I was 11 years old.

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