Looking for Alaska

a novel

paperback, 221 pages

English language

Published July 15, 2005 by Dutton Children's Books.

ISBN:
978-0-525-47506-4
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OCLC Number:
55633822

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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

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Meh

I like John Green's writing but I didn't connect with this story enough to even really remember it after all this time. Even though I've remembered the rest of the books I've read from the same time period. I don't think I connected with the characters very much.

Subjects

  • Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
  • Boarding schools -- Fiction
  • Schools -- Fiction
  • Death -- Fiction