Looking For Alaska

A hundred and thirty six days before, Miles or Pudge Halter was your typical high school outcast with no friends and therefore no one to talk to. His whole life seemed meaningless, just like one big non-event, and his infatuation with the last words of famous writers is what fueled him to leave his safe home life in Florida and dive into the overly exciting world at Culver Creek Boarding School, the place where he intended to find his purpose in life or according to Francois Rabelais his "Great Perhaps." But little did he know the roller coaster ride he was about to jump onto when he met Alaska Young. Alaska being the a sexy, clever, screwed up, smart, and destructive person she was, Miles was immediately fascinated with her. Unlike himself, who's life had never even been a side event, Alaska's life was the main event. And after...well, its never the same.

I personally thought that Looking For Alaska by John Green was utterly amazing! The thing I loved most about this book was that it very thought provoking, and honest. I say honest because it didn't sugar coat anything. You could tell that anything that was written in that book that might have seemed a little inappropriate or unnecessary had an important point to not just the story but the genre in total. To adults who might have read it, might think that this book is vulgar and should be banned but, everything that was written is natural and yes, is what I'm sorry to say some of us teenagers think about.

I say thought provoking because when I finished the book, I couldn't stop thinking about it. I probably sat down for an hour or two re-reading lines and phrases trying to discover things like, what did Miles now base The Labyrinth on? How does he intend to get out? What was his Great Perhaps? Whats my Great Perhaps? It made you think and it made you wonder.

Now I have to say that when I read Will Grayson, partly written by John Green, I didn't like it (Just my pinion). But now I'm convinced that John Green is an amazing author. He threw in pieces about philosophy, literature, and world religion that brought the book into an even deeper meaning than you think I might go. You even felt a certain connection with some of his characters. Green made you want to know Alaska like everyone else got a chance to. You wanted to love her and hate for all the things she did, and all her irrational behavior. It made her seem real. It made the story itself seem real. Just like it could happen to any body. You could wrap it up and say that this story is all about coming of age issues, and I guess it is. But I think there's also so much more to it.