Book Review: Looking for Alaska By John Green

 Looking for Alaska 

By John Green 

Published Year : 2005 (by Dutton Books) 

Page Count: 265 pages 

Medium Used: Paperback 

Genre : Contemporary Fiction, Drama, Young Adult, Philosophy, Life and Death, 2024-read. 

Rating : 4.25/5 😁😁😁😁😁

I enjoyed reading this. The prose is great. Its an electric debut. At first, I thought that ‘Looking for Alaska ‘ means looking for the state of Alaska but in this book, it is the name of a girl who surprisingly and unconventionally names herself after the state on her 7th birthday. 

Alaska is an unusual and unrestrained girl whom the narrator, Miles, meets and falls into an obsession over. It’s not just him but she has many followers and fans in their university. Miles has had an uneventful and smooth life until her meets her and a gang of unruly kids at his new university in Alabama. He becomes part of their prank playing, secret booze consuming and smoking gang. He has really the best time of his life. Then they lose Alaska. They try to figure what has happened to her and why she did what she did. Miles, a student of religion study and memorizer of famous people’s last words , attempts at finding a philosophical and spiritual meaning to her life – which i found very interesting!