My journey with Alaska started back in 2008, but over the years I've been amazed by how well it holds up and resonates with things I'm going through. I plucked it off the shelf, flipped to the page I wanted, and read him what was then my favorite passage.He bought the book. Perhaps that's what gives the book its longevity they're more precocious than pretentious - I couldn't relate to them on the same level emotionally as a teen, but I grew into it. In Alaska, Miles and his friends are blisteringly smart, quoting Gabriel García Marquez between long drags of cigarettes. Even the characters speak less deliberately than in TFiOS or early samples of Turtles, which points to Green improving as a writer but his teen protagonists growing dubiously more eloquent. There’s an incompleteness to Alaska, and even to Paper Towns, that makes me value those books more.
Learn how Miles found his way out the labyrinth of loss finding his Great, with Looking for Alaska.Watch John Green read the first chapter of his new book Wonderful characters, dialogues and fascinating prose makes this story a must read. But the circle of life is not all about happiness and Miles learns this pretty soon.Īfter taking a deep plunge in the deep sea of happiness, again he stands amongst all the worldly troubles. All who contributed in making Miles more like him were unique in nature and had their own quirks. He had a prankster room-mate, a woman, who fits her imaginations and two great male friends. The path chosen for greater good and opportunities leads Miles to Alaska Young, a beautiful and emotionally troubled woman.Īlaska has everything that fascinates Miles and with whom he eventually falls in love. ” These last words of poet Francois Rabelais brings a turn in Miles’s life and he decides to leave his public school at Florida and attends Culver Creek, a private breading school in Alabama.
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