In my first comment I already mentioned that I did not know more or less anything about the book's plot bevore I started reading. If I take a look back now - after reading more than sixty pages - I can say I still do not know much more about what will happen in it. The reader cannot even make a guess what will happen on the next pages. This writing style would be very interessting if you as the reader know that something is going to happen at some point in the book, if the writer inplied something in the beginnig. So it's only a matter of time. However, John Green's "Looking for Alsaka"will become very boring to read, if it goes on like this, as there was nothing implied that anything will happen on the following pages.
However there are two parts on these pages which really appeal to me. The first is the part with the basketball game in the gym. On this few pages you can feel some sort of change of Miles' attitude. The shy and precarious Miles becomes more and more like the person he wants to be. He has become self-confident enough to conter the verbal attack of one of the schools bad boys.
In the socond part miles an his friends get caught for smoking. Here you can see Miles new self-confidence, too. He dares himself to do things he would have never dare to think about in the past. However, this is not the point I mean. What I never expected is that Alaska and the Colonel took guilt on their shoulders. The friendless lone wolf Miles Halter has found real friends.
Marc
Marlene and Marc, is it right that you are writing the blog together? If you, could you maybe mark your comments in some way so that we as the readers know who's opinion we are reading?
AntwortenLöschenReading your first impressions was really interesting, although I don't know who is the one who enjoyed the book and who is still waiting for something to happen...don't worry, as the devision of the book suggests, there something important will happen! I hope you give the book a chance!
I also thought longer about the question, if to give any hint at the beginning of the book, that something is going to happen.
AntwortenLöschenBut in this case I would say, it´s definitly better that J. Green didn´t do.
I think everyone will find out what I mean when he got to part two.
Okay, I´ve to admit that part one is sometimes a bit gassy and boring. But the development of this part is the essential background for part two.
And yes, I just can repeat you and myself again: The characters are created and portrayed in an awesome way!
Marlene