Looking For Alaska by John Green



Looking for Alaska
by John Green
Release Date: March 3rd, 2005
Publisher: Puffin
Pages: 392


Synopsis:
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school 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

Review:
This is a very dark and deep book with a lot of great moments. You get to know Miles and how he goes from a shy boy whom did everything his mom told him, to a smoking, drinking teenager that developes a lot in this book. Miles is seeking the Great perhaps and by changing school and living life he finds it within himself, with a little help from his friends that is very smart and mature teenagers. The decisions they took came across as very geniun.
I thought The Colonel (who is Miles roomate) was hillarious and Alaska Young was really trying to get out of the labytinth but did not really know how and her past has made her a bit troubled but oh how lovely she is and so funny!
She teaches Miles about everything a teenage boy does and i thought that was a great trio of friends.

I must say that the way the kids at the school had this policy of not rating anybody out was never going to last but even those that hated one a nother keept their mouths shut so that nobody would get into trouble. The pranks that they did was hillarious and a really enjoyed the first part.
The second part was after a sertained event that made me cry and the book became really dark and sad but very deep and profound at the same time. they start to realise things about themselves that made them become better person.
I thought that the way John Green divided the book was very inventfull and i have never read a book that was the in the same way. It is divided into to parts, the before and after. The first heading is "fift days before" and so you know that all this time it has been built up to something major that is going to happen.

In conclusion:
John Green is an amazing author and he is a master at handeling big quuestions without them ever making my head all mushy. This book will give you a few good laughs but also a lot of sad times and its a captivating book that you do not want to put away, not even to go to the bathroom.