I liked it. But it's not brilliant, not even original. As I've said, I liked it. But I can't give 3/5 or 4/5 because I haven't seen any improvement coI liked it. But it's not brilliant, not even original. As I've said, I liked it. But I can't give 3/5 or 4/5 because I haven't seen any improvement compairing other books of its genre.
**spoiler alert** Conclusiones que he sacado de este libro:
1. Estudiar no es tan importante. Lo importante es vivir tu juventud a tope. Nada de media**spoiler alert** Conclusiones que he sacado de este libro:
1. Estudiar no es tan importante. Lo importante es vivir tu juventud a tope. Nada de medias tintas. Pásatelo como nunca y luego ya veremos. Aunque bueno... sí, estudia un poco, porque este libro lo leerán adolecentes que tendrán que pasar el filtro de sus padres. Pero déjaselo un poco a la suerte también, tampoco te vayas a matar, vete a la disco, no a la biblio.
2. Vístete como una prostituta aunque tengas diecisiete años.
3. Tírate a muchos tíos, porque si no lo haces, no disfrutarás nada de tu juventud. Enróllate con cuatro o cinco en una semana. A la gente que no lo hace le ocurren cosas malas, como accidentes de coche que te dejan en coma unos capítulos, para que todos os deis cuenta de lo malísimo que es no ser promiscua. A no ser que seas Niki y estés superenamorada de tu novio de cuarenta, el cual es tu único amor, por lo que está prohibidísimo mirar siquiera a otros. Aunque tu novio de cuarenta te haya dejado por otra, tú con él hasta el día de tu muerte, llorando por las esquinas hasta que cumplas ochenta.
4. Mentir es justificable porque estás enamorada.
5. Si tienes una relación estable y feliz desde temprana edad, estás perdiendo el tiempo. ¡Tienes diecisiete años y un novio formal de tu edad que te cuida y quiere! ¡QUÉ FATAL! ¡Estás perdiendo tu juventud! ¡Sal de ahí inmediatamente! Aunque si eres Niki y estás enamorada de tu novio de cuarenta no importa, eso es fantástico, oye, no estás perdiendo para nada tu juventud.
¿Contradictorio? ¡O somos chicas de vida alegre o no, Moccia, que realmente no sé qué camino seguir!
Valores extraños, valores que se contradicen, azúcar hasta decir basta, y una historia bastante predecible que si llega a ser más corta, hubiera sido más pasable.
Aún así la lectura es fácil, y si necesitas algo "no serio", es perfecto. Al menos sirve de mal ejemplo y de entretenimiento. ...more
The book is OK, I liked it better than others of its kind. But I have my rule of not to give more of 3/5 if is not incredibly original. And Beautiful The book is OK, I liked it better than others of its kind. But I have my rule of not to give more of 3/5 if is not incredibly original. And Beautiful Creatures it's not, at least, the beginning of the whole thing (I'd love to see some improvement in next books, by the way, I think it's possible).
Things I liked: Lena Duchannes and her irony, the main characters in general, the Southern background (way of living and magic myths).
Things I disliked: apart from the main characters, the rest were so closed-minded. Not so forced, but, eek, hello? And its slow ending, last chapters started to be repetitive.
WROTE THIS IN 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I am TEN YEARS OLDER.
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I didn't like this book.
This is not what I expected to be. I hoped to find a book in WROTE THIS IN 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I am TEN YEARS OLDER.
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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 you too.
Boring, it was so so boring.
I didn't like the characters. Alaska was unbearable (oh no wait, she was awesome if you were a character too: fantastic girl,beautiful and wonderful and ohmarrymerightnowplease, and she had to be an intelligent woman, so the author made her feminist and an avid reader, to prove she had brains), and there is no need to write about the boys because... booh.
The main character was a cronic linnet, who got lost in his difficulties (mostly, not having a girlfriend, such a big problem you see) and searching The Great Perhaps, thing he forgot to do so easily so...
What a waste of time!
2013 EDIT: almost FOUR years have passed since I read and reviewed Looking for Alaska and I hope nobody expects me to discuss anything related to the book. It's great if you loved the book but I didn't. Maybe at this time of my life I would express myself in a different way but when I wrote this I was convinced of all I said before.
After Looking for Alaska, I read other John Green's books. And I loved some of them, like really did. It's sad that Looking for Alaska didn't work for me but I think it is wonderful that it did for you. Not so many books can inspire that kind of passion :_)
Thanks everybody for your likes and comments and my apologies for not answering them anymore.
2020 EDIT: I read this MORE THAN TEN YEARS AGO (I was about 20, so before sending me to tiktok guess my actual age first, please, I could be your mother by now) and I still get comments saying the same thing over and over again and honestly... I read the comments twice in the last... two or three years. Don’t waste your time being angry at me for not sharing your thoughts about a book because If you are lucky I’ll notice next year and... well, I bet you have better things to do.
And nowadays I ONLY REVIEW IN SPANISH. So don't expect more reviews on crack like this unless you speak or understand Spanish. Thank you very much! ...more
It's not a good book, but I enjoyed it. But I can't give it more stars because the writing is simple and the characters... well, Elena Gilbert is... eIt's not a good book, but I enjoyed it. But I can't give it more stars because the writing is simple and the characters... well, Elena Gilbert is... erm, common. Anyway, I'll read the other three (mostly because I've all of them and I want to know what happens, which is good for L.J. Smith, I guess). ...more
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