Synopsis
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words – and tired of his safe, boring and rather lonely life at home. He leaves for boarding school filled with cautious optimism, to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps."
Review
Firstly I should start off by saying I haven't read a young adult book since I was a young adult. However I was drawn to Looking for Alaska after this paragraph on Goodread, it summed up so many emotions I felt as teenager.
"No," she said, and I couldn't tell at first whether she was reading my kiss-obsessed mind or responding to herself out loud. She turned away from me, and softly, maybe to herself, said,
"Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia."
"Huh?" I asked.
"You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."
John Green is a fantastic author. Looking For Alaska shows off his exceptional skills as a story teller and observer of life. Looking For Alaska is a coming of age story about Pugde, a forlorn, sensitive teenager at a Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama. On his first day at Culver Creek, he meets his roommate (the colonel) and Alaska, another student on campus.
Looking For Alaska is a captivating, charming read littered with humorous moments.
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words – and tired of his safe, boring and rather lonely life at home. He leaves for boarding school filled with cautious optimism, to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps."
Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.
Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another.
Review
Firstly I should start off by saying I haven't read a young adult book since I was a young adult. However I was drawn to Looking for Alaska after this paragraph on Goodread, it summed up so many emotions I felt as teenager.
"No," she said, and I couldn't tell at first whether she was reading my kiss-obsessed mind or responding to herself out loud. She turned away from me, and softly, maybe to herself, said,
"Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia."
"Huh?" I asked.
"You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."
John Green is a fantastic author. Looking For Alaska shows off his exceptional skills as a story teller and observer of life. Looking For Alaska is a coming of age story about Pugde, a forlorn, sensitive teenager at a Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama. On his first day at Culver Creek, he meets his roommate (the colonel) and Alaska, another student on campus.
Pugde, the colonel and Alaska as well as a group of friends get into life at Culver Creek, the group dynamics change as Pudge falls helplessly in love with Alaska who is the most popular girl in school, she is confident, beautiful with self awareness. However behind that cool exterior lies a damaged young girl in search of direction. Green is very good at exploring teen emotions and dealing with these emotions with rawness and sensitivity. He explores themes that are transcendent of all ages, love and death. This book is about identity more than anything else, the search for answers and the meaning of life. Pugde is at the moment in his life where the smallest of incidents could alter his life. He is susceptible to change and as a result a great tool to use when searching for answers.
Looking For Alaska is a captivating, charming read littered with humorous moments.
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