![]() ![]() ![]() Because until now, I have never read a John Green novel *cue pause for gasps of horror…*. I should have my ‘Young Adult Appreciation’ badge revoked. ‘Looking for Alaska’ was the 2005 debut Young Adult novel by John Green. Alaska is Miles’s flesh and blood example of the Great Perhaps. She has a rollercoaster of emotions and a black past hiding behind her rambunctious attitude and go-big-or-go-home life perspective. And then there’s Alaska Young.Īlaska is beautiful and curvaceous. Lara, the Russian student with seductive innocence. Takumi, whose alias ‘the fox’ cannot be caught. Like ‘The Colonel’ – Miles’s roommate who prefers his vodka with milk and his pranks spectacular. ![]() And the cafeteria meat loaf is neither meaty, nor loafy.ĭespite the various, niggling downsides to boarding life, Miles has found a few up-shots too. The rich kid ‘Weekday Warriors’ try to drown him one night. So Miles is leaving no friends behind in Florida, and moving to Alabama to board at his father’s old school, Culver Creek.īut Miles’s boarding experience isn’t as exciting as he’d hoped it would be. Miles Halter intends to follow the advice of Francois Rabelais’s famous last words and look for his very own ‘Great Perhaps’. ![]()
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