Looking for Alaska, by John Green

[rachelmanija]

Teenage Miles Halter, who is obsessed with the last words of famous people, goes away to boarding school in Alabama and becomes even more obsessed with one of his classmates, troubled wild girl Alaska

Comments

[rilina]

FYI, Green's work has been getting better and better. I think An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns both blow Looking for Alaska out of the water; in fact, Paper Towns feels a lot like a rewriting of Alaska--one that's a lot less obvious.

[rachelmanija]

Thanks! I did like his writing style, but the plot didn't do it for me.

[cammykitty]

Hmm, I didn't read your spoiler, but did read the comments. I'm remembering why I hated Bridge to Terebithia. Of course she dies!!! But not until after they have sex and she gives bith to child within weeks of her power hungry mother also giving birth to a child. The birth causes wild girl's death, since our hero had to perform an emergency c-section with his own teeth. Oh, oh, sorry, I'm getting it confused with other current YA.

[tekalynn]

I thought that was My Ántonia.

[tekalynn]

I can never forgive Jim's grandmother for the Mushroom Incident. Hmph.

[wijsgeer]

Miles and Alaska end up being the same person, just not aware of it. They come from the future and the mad scientist had split the souls of his children into little bits and he sent them back in time and into new babies. There they will grow up forever lacking but they get drawn together inexplicably. They have to go on a quest to find out what is going on. If all the parts of a soul reunite they get superpowers and......
well the rest is obvious *grin*