I think as a young adult I spend the majority of my time thinking about my "great perhaps," my someday, my great adventure in life. Looking For Alaska is the story of Miles "Pudge's" search for the "great perhaps" moving from his home in Florida to a place of adventure, Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama. Once there he finds a group of people that inspire and push him intellectually, physically, and emotionally. The truly amazing thing about this book is how honest it is. Unlike many teenage novels about growing up, finding yourself, realizing your future, Looking For Alaska is honest in its characters, its settings, in its entirety. There are no cookie-cutter characters that you know you have read about under another name in another novel, the scenes are all places you've either been with your friends or can imagine blending right into.
A slight forewarning though, I found this book highly addicting and read it in only two sittings. I probably would have read it in one if it had not been four in the morning and if I had not started it so late in the afternoon. It truly is a book you will not want to put down.
These are some of my favorite quotes from the book-
“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
“We are greater than the sum of our parts.”
“When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
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