Looking For Alaska Review.

     I am going to start by saying that, 1) I think I might start reviewing again and 2) I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE John Green. Now, The Fault In Our Stars is usually all I need (I didn't want to push my luck with the whole perfect-book thing. Because An Abundance of Katherines? Well... WHOLE 'nother story), but I'd heard tons of great reviews, so I decided to try it.
       Looking for Alaska is, in a nutshell, what one would probably call a 'coming-of-age' story. But I don't really like that term. So I'll call it  'grows-on-you-and-with-you' story. Anyway, the book doesn't really have chapters; each "chapter" is labeled as " _____ Days Before." Like, the first "chapter" is "one hundred thirty-six days before." Then, in what I guess is supposed to be Part Two, instead of counting down to the crazy, kickass, absolutely MIND BLOWING event that I will not disclose, it goes on from the days after the crazy, kickass, absolutely MIND BLOWING event that I will not disclose.
     The book follows a boy named Miles Halter, whom everyone calls "Pudge." He is obsessed with famous last words and, until he goes to boarding school, he has no friends. Upon enrolling at Culver Creek Boarding School, he meets Chip Martin, whom everyone calls "The Colonel," Alaska Young, whom everyone calls "Alaska," Takumi, and Lara, who becomes his girlfriend in the later books. Pudge and his friends get into crazy antics that involve setting the Dean of Student's ass on fire, smoking in the woods, and "Climbing up Strawberry Hill," referring to the brand of cheap pink wine they drink throughout the story. Like I said, the book is basically split up into two parts, and if you don't like sad books, I would advise that you do not read past page 133. That is all I will say.
     Looking for Alaska made me cry. And not just that, "And a single tear trickled down my cheek." I mean some all-out sobbing was going on. And it has been hard to make me cry about books and movies since I saw E.T.  the second time, and cried my eyes out for the second. Time.
     In conclusion, I would give this book an A plus, but this is the type of novel that can go either way, depending on if you like this kind of plot; you know, the sad, dramatic, romatic type stuff that chicks like me enjoy.