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Looking for Alaska

John Green

Start date: June 1, 2013

Finish date: June 30, 2013

Why we're reading this: Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous l…more
[close] Before. 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. 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. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.

After. Nothing is ever the same.

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Jul 15, 2012 Laszlo rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Wow, that was amazing. I simply loved it, and found it very thought provoking

MILES HALTER (A.K.A. "PUDGE") got his ironically, because he is so skinny. He immediately falls in love with Alaska Young when he meets her. He grew up as a nerd in Florida, with only two "friends", and once he got to I-can't-Remember-What-It-Is-Called-High, he got a fresh start. Drastically. But more on that later. He develops a large entourage of friends and enemies, most of his enemies being the rich "Weekday Warrior ...more

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