Looking for Alaska

from tap_aparecium

When I put this book down, particularly "after", I found myself thinking of it. I applied its questions to my day to day life. I saw the world, the labyrinth, in a different way than I had before I'd began page one. Even after finishing the novel I still think of it and Alaska's most important qu...

from erinbreland

I must say this is the best book I have read in a very long time. The book is about a group of teenagers and the main three are the colonel (chip), Pudge (miles), and Alaska. They all attend a boarding school in Alabama and Pudge is the new kid at school. Pudge comes to this school looking for "t...

from AshleyMarkeitaTate

Looking for Alaska is a wonderfully written book about Miles Halter's journey while attending a boarding school in Alabama. As a sort of loner, he meets interesting people that ultimately become his friends. He also meets "the hottest girl in all of human history," Alaska Young. Wild, smart, and ...

from MickyFine

Miles Halter is a rather unimpressive teen with predilection for memorizing the last words of famous people. However, when he decides to leave his native Florida and go to Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama in search of the Great Perhaps (last words of Francois Rabelais), he meets the beauti...

from sbenne3

I think my expectations were too high because I read this right after The Fault in Our Stars which I fell completely in love with. That said, I still like this author's writing style and character development and this was a good book. I love the idea around the Great Perhaps and the final essay i...