LOOKING FOR ALASKA
Hello! I'm Maider from Laskorain. Today I'm gonna write about one of my favourite books: Looking for Alaska.
This book is the first novel of Jonh Green, and it was published in March 2005. It won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association. During the week of July 29, 2012, Looking for Alaska broke into the New York Times best seller list at number ten Children's Paperback, more tham seven years after it was released. Despite it's literary succes, Looking for Alaska has often been challenged in public districts for content considered inappropiate. Here you have the prologue and the plot of the novel.
"Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words - and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rebails called the "Great Perhaps". Much awaits Miles at Cluver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps."
"Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words - and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rebails called the "Great Perhaps". Much awaits Miles at Cluver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps."
"Miltes Halter, obsessed with last words, leaves Florida to attend Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama for his junior year, quoting François Rebelais's last words: "I go to seek a Great Perhaps". Miles' new roommate , Chip "The Coronel" Martin, ironically nicknames Miles "Pudge" and introduces Pudge to his friends: hip-hop emcee Takumi Hikohito and Alaska Young, a beautiful but emotionally unstable girl. Learning of Pudge's obsession with famous last words, Alaska informs him of Simón Bolívar's: "Damm it. How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!"The two make a deal that if Pudge figures out what the labyrinth is, Alaska will find him a girlfriend. Alaska sets Pudge up with a Romanian classmate, Lara. Unfortunately, Pudge and Lara have a disastrous date, ending with a concussed Pudge throwing up on Lara. Alaska and Pudge grow closer and he begins to fall in love with her, although she insists on keeping their relationship platonic because she has a boyfrind that she insists she loves. "
I love this book, I hope you enjoy it if you read it!
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