Looking for Alaska Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B001J1M4W6 | Format: PDF
Looking for Alaska Description
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 Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver 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.
Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. A stunning debut, it marks John Green's arrival as an important new voice in contemporary fiction.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 7 hours and 11 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Brilliance Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: September 21, 2006
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B001J1M4W6
From all the hype, plus the fact that this is required reading for a lot of high schools, I figured that this would be the crown jewel of John Green novels, the best of the best. But annoyingly, I discovered that from page one it was Paper Towns all over again. I love John Green because God, he is so awesome, but I was really frustrated with the repetitiveness of the same type of plot. I've read Paper Towns, Will Grayson Will Grayson, TFIOS, and now Looking for Alaska and they have all been basically the same book. They all follow the exact same formula:
1. A nerdy, slightly awkward girl/boy who believes in shutting up and staying quiet, usually with a slightly odd name (Miles, WIll Grayson, Hazel, Quentin) meets
2. a super sexy (but nonconventionally so) girl/guy who is also really really intelligent, who usually has a weird name (Alaska, Augustus, Margo) and weird smart-kid quirks and a spirit of adventure, who
3. Takes the protagonist on pranky fun high school adventures and forces them to be something more than an introspective shy awkward person and then
4. Runs away from home/dies leaving the protagonist to
5. Sit around coping with the loss and ultimately come up with big deep conclusions about the meaning of life so that the book can end
6. With a cliffhanger or unsatisfying conclusion.
Obviously there is some slight variation but all his novels more or less follow this general outline.
In Will Grayson, Will Grayson, Tiny is the substitute for Margo/Alaska/Augustus since he drags the protagonist out of his shell and instigates most of the adventures.
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