You just use the future to escape the present. (.) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. "Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. Overall, I think this book deserves five stars. Everything that might offend people is there for a reason.Īs for the actual story, it's about Miles Halter, who is fascinated by last words, and how he goes to a boarding school and meets Alaska Young. However, without these, this book would be entirely different - and probably not as powerful. There is a good amount of drinking/drugs/smoking. The entire novel felt to me like an attempt to find out the answer to.
If you read this book with a parent (like I did) I think a younger age would be suitable.įor additional warnings for parents, I would say this: Looking for Alaska touches the vulnerable and much less talked about aspects of life.
The characters are fully developed and the description is stunning.Īs for the 14+ rating, I this is the rating if you read it alone. Like all John Green books, it is written beautifully. And yes, it's on the banned booklist, but this is a book aimed at the YA crowd for YA readers, so saying that teens can't read about other teens facing the same problems they might face sort of defeats the purpose. Miles Halters whole life has been one big non-event until he starts at anything-but-boring Culver Creek Boarding School and meets Alaska Young. I think that everyone should read this, especially teenagers. Despite the 16+ rating, I read this book when I was 11 years old.
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