John Michael Green is an American writer famous for his excellent and most popular book ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ which has been adapted into an English film with the same title starring Ansel Elgort and Shailene Woodley and the recently released Hindi version ‘Dil Bechara’ starring the late Sushant Singh Rajput and Sanjana Sanghi.Īlthough Green is most appreciated for his book ‘The Fault in Our Stars’, he has written many more excellent books like ‘Turtles All the Way Down’, ‘Paper Towns’ and obviously ‘Looking for Alaska’ for which he won the 2006 Printz Award. Together, Alaska, Chip, Pudge and Takumi plan multiple pranks, smoke, drink, party and take on fights with the richer kids at school who they call the Weekday Warriors, until one day something snaps and all is changed forever. Alaska collects books which she calls her life’s library and her room is filled with them. Chip introduces Walter to Alaska Young and Takumi who have their own peculiar idiosyncrasies. In the school, Miles immediately befriends his classmate and roommate Chip who goes by the name The Colonel and it is Chip who names him Pudge because of Miles’s petiteness. Pudge’s greatest hobby is to remember the last words of people and he moves from his home to Culver Creek High-school, which is a residential school in search of his “great perhaps”. ‘Looking for Alaska’ entails the story of Miles Halter or Pudge as his friends call him, and his journey in a new high-school.

It is funny, sad, exciting and heart-breaking, all at the same time. It makes you happy and sad at the same time and leaves you feeling unsettled yet content at its ending.Īnyone who has read John Green before knows that his novels are an emotional roller coaster but ‘Looking for Alaska’ is something else. Encapsulating the whole high-school experience, it makes its readers feel things ever so personally.

John Green’s first novel ever ‘Looking for Alaska’s is a literary treat.

“Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go.

Looking for Alaska by John Green