Looking for Alaska

Written by: John Green

Published: February 28th, 2013

Format: Paperback

Length: 263 Pages

Publisher: HarperCollins GB

Genre: Romance, Young Adult Novel

My Precise Rating: 5 stars! (It was amazing !)

SYNOPSIS

Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . .

After. Nothing is ever the same.

I go to seek a great perhaps

This book has given me very many of my firsts, but I never thought it would also make me experience, once again, of having a first friend, the first dose of mischief, the first prank on our beloved teachers, grief, loss of loved one.

I don’t know whether it is coincidental or not, but I bought this book and a set of second-hand books in a garage sale.

As an introverted and anxious person, I do not intend on going through my day without scheduling or planning my events ahead, but Alaska taught me this “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia, 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 the future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”