Incredibly touching

Here he met Chip, his neighbors who missed him the nickname Pudge.

By Chip he met Takumi, a Japanese classmates and Alaska know.

Miles is immediately struck by her, because Alaska is funny, smart and beautiful. But also very moody. One minute she laughs in the next she breaks down crying.

Nevertheless, he is fascinated by her. The two are good friends quickly and her great passion, the books, it connects. While Alaska reads novels that she has picked up at flea markets, Miles spends a lot of time trying to find out the last words of well-known writer.

The two were the perfect couple, but Alaska has a boyfriend and even Miles begins to Lara data.

Miles begins a real high school life with all the trimmings, including marginal things like getting drunk, smoking, and gather tricks that can quickly go wrong.

Life could be perfect if not all would have been destroyed from one to the next minute ...

My Conclusion:

I approached with little research on this book. I had bought the original English version and wanted to surprise me.

Accordingly, the book had at the beginning even pulled slightly, although it has always been very amusing. Nevertheless, not much happened until he got to know Alaska that really turned his life upside down.

The book is written from Miles perspective in the I-form and it has a great insight into his feelings and experiences with peer pressure, he has by his new friends. These characterize him very because he is already after a few weeks of the new school a different person.

Alaska itself is quite inscrutable, but came at me pretty fast on the suspicion that she is suffering from depression. Then when the "something" was happening and investigate the guys had my suspicions, though the whole is very open plan but confirmed ...

In general, I must say that this book has me busy for a long time (it still does) and I can well imagine that our schools begin to discuss it during the lesson.