![]() I felt so deeply connected to these characters which is why this book was so incredibly heart wrenching. The character development in Looking for Alaska was amazing. Miles is nicknamed Pudge and the story takes off from there. The book starts out with Miles Halter moving to a boarding school in Alabama where he meets his roommate Chip (The Colonel) and ever so mysterious, beautiful Alaska Young. Some themes covered in Looking for Alaska are friendship, love, loss, the afterlife, guilt and denial. In the span of 221 pages John Green took me from happiness to sadness to peace. I can't believe I waited this long to read this novel. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. ![]() The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. ![]() Then he heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet) even more. ![]()
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