Looking For Alaska, by John Green

soooOo i borrowed this book from +Josh Xu bc i have been meaning to read it for monnthhss but i could never find a copy so then +Josh Xu was a very nice person and let me borrow it on the condition that i  made a blog post about it which i was going to do anyway but still this post is dedicated to/requested by +Josh Xu

Summary:

so basically there's this boy names Miles (but he is called Pudge for the majority of the book because he is skinny) and his life is hella boring and so he decides to go to this boarding school in alabama called Culver Creek and there he meets his room mate Chip (but he is called the Colonel for most of the book) and "gorgeous sexy funny screwed up self destructive something and endlessly fascinating Alaska Young" and she is kind of perfect. except she has a boyfriend named jake and i like him too. so they go there and Pudge takes this class called World Religions and there's a bunch of metaphorical stuff that relates to his life and for most of the year he, the Colonel, and Alaska smoke and drink and play pranks and generally do stuff you're not supposed to do at boarding school but that the boarding school experience wouldn't really be complete without. so Pudge gets to know alaska better and he falls in love with her because how could he help it. but alaska is weird and moody and some days she'll be funny and laughing and sarcastic and some days she'll be depressed and sad and angry and stuff. 

spoilers so dont read ahead unless you want to 

so basically its because her mom died when she was little. and then one day the Colonel is drunk and alaska is very very very drunk and miles is mostly sober and they are playing truth or dare and the alaska kisses pudge and then she's like OH CRAP and she's crying and she leaves to go somewhere but because she's very very very very very drunk she hits a cop car and dies. 

so that was mostly predictable (like the dying part not the how) but the next part is very very very very spoiler so do not read okay unless you already read the book

and so basically the last half of the book is Colonel and Pudge and Takumi and Lara (other friends) trying to figure out what happened and why she ran away and did she commit suicide or what. and basically what happened is that every year on that day at the exact time her mother died, she goes and puts flowers on her grave but she forgot so she was rushing to go do that. 

Ships:

• Alaska and Jake - i kind of ship it but like alaska also kissed Pudge while she was dating Jake so i mean kind of but eh we didn't really get to see much of Jake in the book so idk
• Miles and Alaska - i ship it but at the same time they're so different like alaska is all BAM and miles is all ehhh so i kind of
• Lara and Miles - ehhh its okay i liked Lara tho and i want her to be happy so i guess i shipped it but ehhh
• is there even anything else I don't think so

My overall opinion:

10/10 omg I loved it it was so heartbreakingly beautiful and I loved Alaska so much and asdfghjkl. it was (as is the case with everything written by John green) so absolutely amazingly well written and I loved it so much. surprisingly I didn't cry that much (just like a little after she died and that's it) but I was really sad and it was so perfect and as much as I wish she hasn't died because I loved her she kind of had to otherwise there would have been no plot but just everything about it was so sad and perfect and asdfghhjkl.  and their pranks were amazing omg I died laughing. and yeah. just read the book. 

yeah its pretty



btw +Josh Xu  is literally the only one who requested anything and you know you can request stuff cuz sooner or later im going to run out of books