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ooking for Alaska is an underrated modern classic set in the sweat-inducing back towns of Alabama. Labelled a ‘showcase to the raw talent John Green has, the kind of talent that can make you close the crisp last page of a novel and come out as a different person’ by The Times, Green’s take on Miles

Haulter, aka ‘Pudge’, and teenage life in the capitulating shift of maturity grips tough but leaves one with the marks of a light hold. Set in the early 2000s at Culver Creek High School, ‘Looking for Alaska’ is not any typical boy-meets-girl story – it is far deeper and richer than the blanket of cliché. A story that captures love, depression, death and life in volumes, Pudge and his mismatch collective seek a ‘Great Perhaps’ that John Green reflects articulately.

The truest form of beauty is a beauty that hides nothing, which Green seeks between the light-milled pages of a tale of two halves. Teenage life and its ever-growing struggles are thrown into the mix in a surprisingly nimble form, discussing heavy-set issues with a wispy touch. The words flowing to sentences begin to form not just a story but an experience. With passages that make your eyes race along them to discover and paragraphs that cause you to grab the tissues, Green’s attempt at a real and unromanticised brutality in the form of just a single year of college term provides the reader with an extraordinary enthusiasm towards discovery in what, at heart, is a love story that appeals to the star-crossed masses. In the effort of preservation, the growing days – which are titled by Green as ‘x days before’ and ‘x days after’ – are exhibited with a finesse that never actually gives the reader a hint to what the core turn is. The pivotal point of the story is outlined, and yet, despite knowing it is coming, one will never be able to see it. This excellent spiral of story, encounters, and labyrinths shines on the shelf and in the eyes. Putting it down is just as hard as reading on is easy.

Reading feels relaxed with Green’s take on the teenage angst. There’s no obligations and yet one feels obliged to continue anyway – almost out of need and fear of missing out on what is a sophisticated few hundred pages of experience. The narrative is not all fun and games, as Miles Haulter’s life becomes further from the life of Culver Creek previous. While there is fun, laughter, and feel-good indulgence, there is also riveting dread, fear, and regret – something the reader becomes involved in. One almost feels as though they know Pudge, the Colonel, Alaska and Takoumi. They become part of your life, part of your memories and experiences. Coming away from the book you will feel emotions for characters that Green gives you the fantastic foundation to create and mould into your own. You are given the freedom to imagine the characters as you see fit, only further personalising and enriching the entire experience of the tale....