Looking for Alaska by John Green is one of the most quoted books that I’ve seen. Considering this, I was not let down.  This book was beautifully written and contained such honesty; it wasn’t just your typical everything’s-perfect-teenage-love-story novel. It showed growing up in real light. Also Miles’ life didn’t just consist of Alaska (as many romance novels will do), he had his fair share of disastrous parties, bets and pranks.

Looking For Alaska will forever keep you in love with author John Green. He did nothing to ensure this was an appropriate proper book, and it’s obvious that he left all of his true voice in it. Although it may not be as tear-jerking as The Fault in our Stars, readers still need your fair share of tissues. This book honestly can compete with The Fault in our Stars, the book I reread for months.

Before coming to Culver Creek Boarding School, main character, Miles was a boy who was always alone, obsessed with finding famous people’s last words. He goes to seek the “Great Perhaps” (Francois Rabelais, poet), which he doesn’t believe can happen at his public school. Once he gets to Culver Creek, where his father use to attend, he meets Alaska who pulls him in and launches him into the Great Perhaps that he has been searching for. Alaska is the mysterious friend across the hall who doesn’t seem all that ordinary, as a Culver Creek student or as a teenage girl in general.  She is unexplainably moody at random times, impulsive, and manipulative.

This book is so good at describing how life is, and makes readers question so many things. You won’t look at the world the same way after you read this book. This book contained heartbreak, pain, loyalty, friendship, love, hate, forgiveness, and the question of what you really mean in life.

This book isn’t just praised by me; it has received numerous awards such as Michael L. Printz Award and also was a New York Times’ best seller. So pick it up from our school library, we have 3+ copies!

List of best quotes from “Looking for Alaska”

“So we gave up. I’d finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be discovered. We’d failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren’t meant to be solved.”

“At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.”

“The only way out of labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape 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.”

“… if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”