Here is the summary off of Goodreads so you get the basic gist of the book:
Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet) even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.
After. Nothing is ever the same.
Here is my opinion:
My opinion on this one probably is very unpopular but I am going to be honest. I didn't like this one as much. People say that it's honest about what real life is like. If I wanted an honest book about the more wild side of high school I would go talk to some of the kids in my classes. I mean, I'm not trying to be judgemental even though I probably am doing so but seriously not everything in there was necessary. The sex scenes were, though not terrible graphic compared to what there is out there now, were not quite needed to do more than show that Pudge was not used to this wild life. Additionally, why does he start smoking, because his roomate does. Pudge doesn't even fight the peer pressure and doesn't seem to have any set moral standards at all. He just goes with what the Colonel (his roomate) tells him too. Where is his frickin backbone. All in all I wasn't too big of a fan though others will tell you it is moon worthy.
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