yup. this is not the right book to read for the first time at 23 years old in 2020. yup

I just want to know what weed addicted brunette broke JOHN GREEN heart in highs school and gave him enough material for a decade’s worth of identical books.

I have really got nothing to say about this book. It’s shitty like all of this other books no doubt about that!!

Speaking of MILES PUDGE HALTER is a misogynistic piece of shit. Throughout the book he objectifies Alaska and cheats on Lara , he belittles Takumi and is just a whining piss baby.

That's me, realizing I was about to give a big one star to a super popular book on Goodreads. It didn't stop me. This book was beyond stupid.Miles is a little nerd boy from Florida, he is going away to boarding school hoping for a new life or maybe his "Great Perhaps". The Great Perhaps comes from a minute reference to some poet. Thrown in to this book to make it all edgy and shit. Fail. Once he gets there his roommate (the requisite character that is so poor but super smart) befriends hi...

My assistant Amanda has been a John Green fan for ages, which is one of the reasons I decided to start giving his stuff a read. I decided to start here because it was one of his first books. After I finished this book, I went to her and asked, "Are all of John Green's books going to leave me feeling like I've had a hole kicked straight through my guts?""Not all of them," she said. "But yeah. Some." I thought about this for a while, then asked her. "In Name of the Wind, when X happens, did it fee...

"The Great Perhaps." Miles ‘Pudge’ Halter is a quirky teenage boy starting Culver Creek Preparatory High School. In short time there he befriends strategist Chip ‘The Colonel’ Martin, gifted Takumi Hikohito and beautiful Alaska Young. The wild and troublesome group quickly grows close and strong in camaraderie; until the fateful day arrives when their lives are forever changed. Sometimes you can see the storm coming, but often tragedy occurs when you least expect it.Another Green masterpiece a...

I'm going to explain my emotions about this book in a billion of gifs because I love this book too much to put into words <3So first I was like... because Pudge was pretty cool.Then we met the Colonel, and I did thisbecause the Colonel is awesome! and he got my approval.Then we met Alaska and I gobecause, who knows? She's really not that bad.Then we really get to know her and I'm likeThen ALL this stuff happens and I don't know what to expect, because now we're at the After part, and I'm exci...

Update- 3/10/23Boy I was passionate 9 years ago. 🤦‍♀️ I still dislike this story but any book that gets me this worked up, deserved better from me. If you can write so well, that I become so invested into the characters, even if I hate those characters, you are a brilliant writer. Officially giving another 2 star for a total of 3 stars. Update- 4/12/14This review/rant receives more comments than any other book review I have. I decided to reply to a few of the comments in my review because the p...

some people are careless, and in an adrenaline-fueled all-caps teen reviewing frenzy, will inadvertently give a major spoiler for this book.avoid these people, even though ordinarily, they are pretty cool.this is a really well-written teen fiction book. i mean, it won the printz award, i'm not discovering america here. i think i wanted to emphasize that it definitely reads like a book intended for a teen audience. and i think that me as a teen would have numbered this among my very favorite book...

WROTE THIS IN 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I am TEN YEARS OLDER. **** I didn't like this book. This is not what I expected to be. I hoped to find a book in the style of Stargirl (or something novel) and what did I find? A bunch of teens who try to ease their anxieties in their not-so-original vices and a sudden drama which leads to nonsense talking. All hiding, of course, in a couple of beautiful quotes that wrap all the 'inspiring-sites' on the internet, the reason I got to the book and I bet that yo...

Wow. I must've skipped a bunch of pages or read the Hebrew translation or was having root canal or something because that was one terrible book. All those awards-- WHAT??? Such a clumsy story— every move of the author was heavy-handed and so transparent I felt like I was a fly on John Green's ceiling watching him go "Oh that's good-- oh that's just precious" and fall asleep in his soup again. Miles—I mean "Pudge,"as he is deemed within minutes of his arrival at his School of Great Perhaps— may b...