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The main character of Looking for Alaska is a 16-year-old boy named Miles, nicknamed "Pudge" by his roommate at Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama. Originally from Florida, Pudge was a theater and english geek nobody at his high school. In search of the Great Perhaps, Pudge transfers to the same boarding school his father attended to finish out his high school years. He's your pretty typical teenage, geeky...

To be perfectly honest, I started reading this book later than I should have this evening....but I haven't been able to put it down since. Nearly half-way through the book this, Looking for Alaska has a kind of pull to it that keeps you coming back, keeps you wondering what choices Pudge will make. I don't usually enjoy stories that are meant to be similar to the lives of typical teenagers, but there is something...