“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” and is in search of his Great Perhaps that Miles decides to attend the Culver Creek Boarding School where he hopes to start anew.

He is friendless, lonely, and his greatest quirk is to read biographies in search of last words. It is also a painful book to read but I didn’t know how much until the halfway mark when BAM, surprise, surprise and this is partly what makes this review a difficult one to write because Looking for Alaska is a book that can’t be spoiled and I therefore, can’t discuss some parts of the story the way I would have wanted – but I believe this is for the Ultimate Good because this is a Wonderful Book!Īre these Grandiose Exclamations with Capital Letters really a necessity, you might be asking yourself, to wit, I say, yes, yes they are and they are actually quite fitting as well, given as how this book deals with the meaning of life, with guilt and grief, with last words and first loves all from the point of view of Miles Halter, 16 year old, a skinny, nerdy guy. This is probably his most serious and thoughtful book which is to say a lot, because all of his books are to some extent, serious and thoughtful.

I don’t think I was really prepared for this book even though I read all of John Green’s books ironically, I read this one last, but this is actually his first and all I have to say about this is: REALLY? This is John Green’s first book? Holy $£%^! Expletives aside, I was expecting something I didn’t get, but what I got was so much better.

Why did I read the book: John Green is right now, one of my favorite writers. Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. He leaves for boarding school filled with cautious optimism, to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words - and tired of his safe, boring and rather lonely life at home. Publication date: March 2005/ July 2006 (UK)įirst drink, first prank, first friend, first girl, last words! A poignant and moving crossover novel about making friends and growing up from American author, John Green. Publisher: Speak/ HarperCollins Children’sBooks (UK)

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