Looking for Alaska by John Green

I wanted to have this version of the book, lol. The cover was everything! :)

“If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.” - Miles “Pudge” Halter

That exact line was the line I looked up last summer. It was all over my dashboard, yeah my reblog blog haha. I find it interesting and deep so I wanted to know where it was from and what he/she meant. It brought me to Looking for Alaska.

I had no idea about the book and when I saw the actual book, it has this “before and after” at the back. I was like “before what? after what? why will nothing be the same after?” I got curious so I bought the book anyway. I didn’t read much about the book. I just checked some quotes from the book. Ended up reading this book for 3 times until now. Haha.

This time, it was Miles’s perspective. He had no social life in Florida and he decides to go to Culver Creek, a boarding school where his dad went. But having no social life and it was his dad’s school aren’t the reason why he wanted to transfer. He wanted to read lots of books and he was searching for the Great Perhaps. He was also fond of memorizing people’s last words.

He met Chip or the Colonel, his dorm mate. And he eventually introduced him to Alaska, who he finds really attractive. Then met Takumi. He had friends not like in Florida. His parents tried to warn him about everything. As much as he doesn’t want to get involved into such things, he did anyway because the weekday warriors thought the Colonel ratted Paul and Marya.

Pudge was the kind of guy who I find really interesting. Oh, wait. I find all of them interesting cause they do not-so-good things like smoke and drink but they still had good grades. Enough said. Hahaha. Well, everyone of them are different, like really different from each other but still got along well. That’s real friendship over there. They had their backs for each other.

I can’t possibly tell the whole story, I would be such a spoiler. So anyway, Alaska was kind of mysterious for me. She said things like she intended not to be understood. It was crazy reading the book for the first time but it kept me really excited for what would happen next.

“Sometimes I don’t get you”
“That’s the point, you never get me.” 

Like Pudge, I never got Alaska until the Barn Night. I was shocked but I understood why she hated home, she never even called it home. She brought Pudge to the Great Perhaps then POOF! She was gone.

I understood now why it was never the same and I guess I’ll leave it to you guys to find out. It’s just that, I kind of related to Alaska. She was suffering and she wanted to to get out of that labyrinth of suffering, straight and fast.

It’s a book that dealt with life and death. Not exactly like it but it was telling how different it was to be with someone for a while and then poof! she’s gone. It tells how people act and change after a loss. How they deal with their lives after one’s death. It’s showed what will happen to us when someone we love just disappears. Nothing will ever be the same.