When my friend
suggested that I read Looking for Alaska, I did not go tearing into a book store to buy one, as he expected me to do; instead I downloaded the e-book that this maniacal
reader suggested, like the equally voracious book reader that I am, after
reading which I vowed to buy a copy. Alaska is a girl who seems to live as
though she were perpetually preparing for something life changing. She studies
in Culver Creek Preparatory High
School in Alabama where Miles Halter, the protagonist, joins to attend junior
year – “...to seek a great perhaps.”
He has a fetish for people's last words. Endearing in a morbid way, really, even to the other characters in the book.
Miles Halter makes friends, one of them being Alaska. As a fivesome, his friends
and he pull off pranks- an annual tradition- at the school. The fun and frolic,
with the smuggled alcohol and cigarettes, and the smart conversations they
have around their 'coffee table', funnily enough, will resonate with teenagers and adults.
With extensive quotes from beautiful poems by great poets, in typical
John Green fashion, the book keeps your curiosity alive, while it taps at your
witty bone, with it not-so-parliamentary jokes and subtle humour. Looking for
Alaska certainly shows you how and why John Green, the world historian and the
charming writer can steal many a heart away with mere words.
Alaska steals your heart away. @John Green: Well done, with the
character building.
I will leave you with what my friend said when I asked him for more such
book recommendations “I just read it, I want it to sink in, it’ll take a while
before I think about a next...”
Four and a half.
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