Sixteen-year-old Miles′ first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Green, John. Looking for Alaska.
Sixteen-year-old Miles′ first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks.
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This book is about a boy named "Pudge", he is a nerd pretty much, and is obsessed with peoples last words (the last thing people say before they die). He went through his high school without any one ever noticing him...but now it is time to go to college. When he gets there right off he meets Colonol, and then he meets Alaska. Alaska, as John Green describes her, "The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly facinating girl". Pudge also meets the characters: Takumi, and Lara. Colonol and Alaska invite Pudge into there little friendship. They introduce him to their drinking in their dorms, sneaking out to have a smoke, and sex. As this group of kids get closer. One of the worst things that could happen happened. Alaska committed suicide.
This book is a little boring in the beginning when the author is introducing you to the characters and the school, but it half way through it gets so fast paced that you don't want to set the book down.
Wow, wow, wow, WOW! This was awesome! I like books that take hard subjects to deal with, like smoking, drinking, ect, and put there in your face as a funny and fast paced book! Mature raders could probably handle this better than younger readers, but it is still a great book. I found no problems with the content because it is today's style of life for teens, whether people like it or not.
The character of Pudge gives a great sight to the story, which has a finale like no other. Anyone with a sense of humor would like this.
I have been looking at the cover for over a year and always thought that the smoke symbolized the constant smoking and breaking of rules by the four friends. Today, I discovered the candle at the bottom. It was interesting to note that John Green says he likes the cover with the smoke and without the candle. Doesn't the candle remind you of "A Candle in the Wind" and the overdramatic teen arranged funeral in God of Beer? Doesn't it trivialize the death?
courtney says "One of the wrost things that could happen happened. Alaska committed suicide." Did she? I don't think the Colonel and Pudge and Takumi know whether she did or not. Students discussing the book at North Country did not come to a conclusion. They agreed her death was unfortunate and felt her friends should have stopped her from driving, but they felt she did not intend to commit suicide when she left the school. Maybe at the very last moment when she did not put on the brakes or swerve, she thought of committing suicide, but maybe she thought she could make it past and did not want to be delayed on her way to her mother's grave.
This amazing story won the Green Mt. Book Award, 2008. It should continue be widely read!
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