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Looking for the Great Perhaps. Aren't we always looking?

Looking for Alaska - John Green

He’s searching for the Great Perhaps.  Just like Francois Rabelais last words, “I go to seek a Great Perhaps” Miles is searching for something more.  Fascinated with individual’s famous last words, Miles heads off to Culver Creek Boarding School and rooms with “the Colonel”. The Colonel knows the ropes of the school and Miles “Pudge” Halter begins to fit right in with the Colonel’s friends.  When Pudge meets Alaska, his world turns upside down.  She’s fun, she’s ambitious, she’s real but she also has some issues that seep up to the surface and change her.  Oh Pudge, he’s madly in love with Alaska and he wants so desperately for it to work.  For once, Pudge has found his nitch, his place in the world and he feels connected. As Pudge adjust to his new routine of school, studying and hanging out with his friends can he handle it when things start to get complicated?

 

I enjoyed Alaska. She was off-the-wall at times with her thoughts and her behavior and perhaps that is what I enjoyed about her.  You just never knew what to expect with her.  As Pudge transformed in the book, it was interesting to see how he adjusted to all the different pressures and attitudes from his peers and his teachers/parents.  I don’t know anyone who goes off to boarding school or has the opportunity to ditch their parents for the school year so that part of the book is not too feasible but the maturity of the characters and the schemes are all-to-real.    There is drinking, drugs and sex in this book so consider that before reading this great novel.