Looking for Alaska by John Green

I finally finished The Clockwork Princess and thought it was AWESOME! I have started a new book though, Looking for Alaska by John Green.

My initial impression of John Green from this one and only book I have read of his is he has a really unique style of writing. He uses a lot of figurative language such as "...so I grabbed one of the desk chairs and sat down outside my door in the shade overhanging eaves, waiting for a breeze that never arrived." (pg. 7) This is an example of personification because the breeze doesn't really arrive, but it is given a human action that is not generally given to an inanimate object. Also, I assume he is an amazing writer because a very famous quote by him from The Fault in Our Stars, which I haven't even read but have heard many times is, "That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt." quoted from Augustus Waters. The fact that I haven't even read this book, but I have heard this part so many times must mean something about his writing. He hasn't given much description about the characters looks but he has told us a lot about their personality traits and how they act. The most common way he tells us about their personality is through others words or actions. For example we learn a lot about Alaska by the way The Colonel talks about her here, "So she really likes him? 'I guess. She hasn't cheated on him, which is a first.'" In this passage Miles is asking The Colonel about Alaska and her current boyfriend. You are able to tell his sarcastic tone when he says "...,which is a first." This implies that she has before and is a common thing for her. You learn a lot about The colonel and Alaska in this one sentence. Another unique style of writing in this novel is I noticed he numbers off reasons a lot. I think that is just the character, Miles talking not Green's actual writing style in everybook though. On pages 23, 18, 14 and maybe more pages has numberings on it.