The two books that I have read by John Green were fantastic. (This post is about an author I like.)
The first book that I read by him was Looking for Alaska. This book was about how these boys (who were kind of dorks) went off to college and one of them met this girl that had an instant connection with him. It was a strange connection because she was some mysterious girl that he had just met yet the boy felt like he had known her his whole life. Her name was Alaska, and Alaska was this crazy girl with a messed-up family and a crazy outgoing attitude and strong passions for many unusual things. In the end, the boy ended up having to help her with something that's a bigger favor than anything else in the world, and the boy and Alaska end up caring for eachother more than any two people ever have. I liked this book mainly because I love how Green constructed Alaska. Even though she wasn't the main character she definitely had a stronger personality than any other character in the book. Green had her do crazy things like drunk drive and always want to take long road trips and make wax volcanoes from candles in her dorm. I thought that it would be cool to have a life like that, just freewilled and willing to do just whatever (except drunk drive, Ms. Galang!). I appreciated this because I know that it is important to an author to try and make the text and the characters somehow relate to the reader so they can understand the story better and more clearly.
The other book that I just finished for the second time was Paper Towns. This book was about something extremely similar yet so different! It was about how a boy (Quentin) and his friends were kind of nerdy in school and they all admired this one girl, Margo Spiegelman. This girl was basically Alaskas character, except she also had some insecurities about herself that she only revealed to Quentin. Towards the middle of the book Margo goes missing and leaves clues for Quentin to try and find her. Margo and Quentin too also have a strangely deep connection. The two are family friends and didn't really know each other before but after spending some time together they really "hit it off". This book was similar to Looking for Alaska in that they both have a guy main character who admires this crazy girl in a weird way, but in the end they both end up having really deep connections for eachother, and something bad happens, then its all better! (kind of)
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