Looking For Alaska

“Looking For Alaska,” by John Green, takes place in Florida and tells the tale of Miles Halter, a boy who is fond of the famous reputed last words of Francois Rabelais "I go to seek a great perhaps" as an excuse to leave his home to attend Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama for his Junior year.

After adjusting to the school, he meets his roommate, Chip Martin or nickname as the “Colonel.” Miles later get his own nickname, "Pudge" and soon after meets his first ever crush, Alaska Young, one of Colonel's friends, a girl who is emotionally unstable, but a definite beauty.

On Pudge's first night in the school, they grabbed, duct taped and tossed him into the lake nearby as a ritual by a group of snotty rich kids called the "Weekday Warriors." They earned the nickname because they stay in the school on weekdays and go home to their mansions on the weekends. But this time when they have thrown Pudge into the water, it was different and seemed unusual for the Colonel. So, he decided to avenge Pudge and went into a prank war with the Weekday Warriors and within the war the group of friends gets closer to one another and sooner or later Pudge falls in love with the-ever-so beautiful, Alaska. One-night while Alaska and Pudge hooked up and drunk, after a while Alaska gets a call and freaks out.

She asks the Colonel and Pudge to help her out with something, and that something is to escape from the campus grounds. Sooner after helping her out, the Colonel and Pudge realized that in helping Alaska escape, resulted into the death of her. Devastated and mourning over the loss of their friend, they do everything and anything to figure out the cause of it and they also pull of a prank in honor of their dear friend.

Do you want to know why Alaska Young was so freaked out about that call?  Why she died and what really happens? Buy the book on amazon.com its worth spending time reading it and enjoying the moments with Colonel, Pudge and Alaska Young.

I didn't regret spending my free time sitting down and reading this book because reading it made me feel like I knew the characters personally and we were all so close. As I flipped into its last page, I felt the sudden hit of reality that Alaska was not real nor was real nor was Pudge nor was the Colonel, but then they were real in my imagination, they were all so alive to me and it’s one of those books that I want to read all over again.