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. 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.
-Goodreads
I decided to read most of John Green's books this summer and I started with Looking for Alaska.
When I started reading I realised one thing, all male main characters have a... weird obsession: Augustus with metaphors, Colin an his annoying anagrams and now Miles with last words.
I read this book because everybody said that it was a great book but, to be honest, I didn't like much.
After The Fault in our Stars all John's books disappoint me.
There was too much smoking and drinking, it seems it's the main topic it distracts the reader of the (in my opinion) more important topic, the fun of being a teenager, the friendship...
The "voice" of the story was really good, this is what I admire of John, the facility he has for talking and writing like a real teenager. Another detail that I liked was the countdown, it adds suspense to the book and makes it easier to read.
Like in The Fault in our Stars (or The Knives in our Hearts), yeah the feelings play a huge role. And the quotes were great. My favourite: “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
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