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I finally had a chance to read one of John Green’s books when I found it in the library. Honestly it is as good as people say on Youtube. It kinda reminds me of Catcher in the Rye in the sense that it’s a coming of age novel. I love Green’s style of writing. Have been ever since I read his Zombicorn novella. I love his imagery and jokes.
I find the characters well written. They weren’t too static but they weren’t too round either. I find it interesting that Miles (Pudge), the main character have a hobby in knowing people’s last words while his best friend, Chip (Colonel), have a hobby of memorizing the capitals of every countries and later population. Alaska’s character doesn’t stride far from reality and I think I liked it that she died in the story rather than living on and creating a love triangle and making it seems like just any other young adult novel.
I like the idea of the Great Perhaps and finding a way out of the labyrinth. Perhaps there is no way out. There’s a quote from Higurashi that I feel relates to one of the themes in this book.
“I was the most unfortunate one. I knew there was no exit out of this maze.
Then ‘he’ became the next unfortunate, for he did not know that there was no exit out of this maze.
But all the rest weren’t so unfortunate. They didn’t even know the maze exist in the first place”
– Bernkastel
My thoughts from this book is that suffering is always repeating and there’s no way to escape except for death, but that’s just the easy way out. We are alive but we will learn to live through our suffering and find happiness to ease that suffering. Don’t let it stop you from finding that Great Perhaps, it’s just another hurdle.
