Together, Alaska, Chip, Pudge and Takumi plan multiple pranks, smoke, drink, party and take on fights with the richer kids at school who they call the Weekday Warriors, until one day something snaps and all is changed forever. Alaska collects books which she calls her life’s library and her room is filled with them.

Chip introduces Walter to Alaska Young and Takumi who have their own peculiar idiosyncrasies. In the school, Miles immediately befriends his classmate and roommate Chip who goes by the name The Colonel and it is Chip who names him Pudge because of Miles’s petiteness. Pudge’s greatest hobby is to remember the last words of people and he moves from his home to Culver Creek High-school, which is a residential school in search of his “great perhaps”. ‘Looking for Alaska’ entails the story of Miles Halter or Pudge as his friends call him, and his journey in a new high-school. It is funny, sad, exciting and heart-breaking, all at the same time. It makes you happy and sad at the same time and leaves you feeling unsettled yet content at its ending.Īnyone who has read John Green before knows that his novels are an emotional roller coaster but ‘Looking for Alaska’ is something else. Encapsulating the whole high-school experience, it makes its readers feel things ever so personally. John Green’s first novel ever ‘Looking for Alaska’s is a literary treat. This book is not appropriate for its intended young adult audience.“Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. (At least 17 of which are the f-word.) There also are two detailed sex scenes when Miles loses his virginity and when he watches his first pornographic film. Rated: DIRT due to well over 50 swear words. Sadly, though, there is so much muck in this book and it takes away from the story. Looking for Alaska has a ton of potential - it has great characters that are just quirky enough to be really likable. After some of their poor choices play out, they learn that their junior year will never be the same. A few more deviants are added to the group and they open Miles’ eyes to drinking, drugs, sex and school pranks.

Miles’ roommate, Chip Martin, nicknames him Pudge on account of his slender build, and together they befriend a completely unstable girl named Alaska Young. At Culver Creek he quickly falls into a group many would consider the wrong crowd. He never has had friends and spends most of his time memorizing famous people’s last words. Miles Halter leaves his parents’ home in Florida to attend Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama and find the “Great Perhaps”.

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