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 * __Rating:__** 3 Stars

Miles "Pudge" Halter is just a normal teenager. He doesn't have as many friends as he'd like, he memorizes the last words of famous people in history, and this addiction to remembering the last words of the famous make him crave the last words of a poet by the name of Francois Rabelais, the "Great Perhaps" even more. Once he realizes that he won't be able to reach this "Great Perhaps" from home, he leaves his family and his home in Florida to attend a boarding school in Alabama, leaving his minor life behind to seek what he felt he was missing. Pudge goes on many different adventures, tries new things, and even finds a girl who will change his life forever, Alaska Young. She is clever, witty, and a special kind of self-destructive; she pulls Pudge into her world, and helps him through different experiences on the journey to finding the "Great Perhaps."
 * __Summary:__**

This book reflects the hardships that teenagers have to face through growing pains, and finding their special spot in the world. The genre of realistic fiction is really captured throughout the experiences Pudge and his friends go through, and it made me feel a bunch of different emotions including sadness, happiness, to almost anger. Not only did specific events throughout the book make me reflect upon the world around me, but the way I think about the way we live and our relationships with people; and the impact of them. Some parts in the book were a little over descriptive, not leaving enough room for imagination, but overall, John Green writes a decent novel with a lot of insight about the struggles of a teenager, and the process of finding self discovery along all the ups and downs along the way. I suggest this book to anyone that wants an eventful novel about finding the "Great Perhaps" through a lot of unique experiences and struggles, but also has a taste for the deeper thought; I would suggest to book to all, it was a good read.
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