But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.Īlaska earned a reread during college, when I made the classic mistake of falling in love with someone who didn’t love me back. I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. Miles moves across states and switches schools to find his Great Perhaps, his life-altering adventure, and he does he finds the Culver Creek Preparatory High School, he finds Colonel and Alaska and Takumi and they drink cheap wine and pull pranks and live like they’re part of something grand and important. I got hooked on something Miles is fixated on from the outset of the novel he’s inspired by the last words of the French poet François Rabelais (allegedly): “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” I first read it when I, like the protagonists, was 17, and I too was desperate for adventure. My journey with Alaska started back in 2008, but over the years I've been amazed by how well it holds up and resonates with things I'm going through.
I plucked it off the shelf, flipped to the page I wanted, and read him what was then my favorite passage.He bought the book. Perhaps that's what gives the book its longevity they're more precocious than pretentious - I couldn't relate to them on the same level emotionally as a teen, but I grew into it. In Alaska, Miles and his friends are blisteringly smart, quoting Gabriel García Marquez between long drags of cigarettes. Even the characters speak less deliberately than in TFiOS or early samples of Turtles, which points to Green improving as a writer but his teen protagonists growing dubiously more eloquent. There’s an incompleteness to Alaska, and even to Paper Towns, that makes me value those books more. Watch John Green read the first chapter of his new book
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