Looking for Alaska

Woah. That was powerful. The only thing I didn't like about this book, and this is nit-picky, is there were parts that seemed hipstery/pretentious to me. Some of the characters reminded me of the obnoxious kids my age that think they've got “everything figured out” and sit around their rooms listening to music nobody's heard of, doing drugs and philosophizing. There was also a lot of name dropping of classic literature and such that made the characters seem a little egotistical. But when I hit the “After” part of the book I slowly began to really get into it. I dunno why, but I usually respect a book, show, or movie more when they take a turn for the darker. Soon what I found pretentious, started to become interesting and I ended up really liked the second half/the ending of the book. Part of me would like to see this as a movie (mostly to see the pranks played out haha) but another part of me says that would just be hipster-fuel on tumblr. Also, it'd probably be a major tear jerker and I dunno if I could handle that...