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As a book,Looking for Alaskais a beautiful, poignant, and unsolvable puzzle.
He makes friends, too, and he studies and tries to learn about life.
He has a wise, old religion teacher.
He gets into trouble.
Miles and his new friends are bonded together through all the usual, indelible kinds of teenage rule-breaking.
Its sad that Miles is so limited, and thats precisely the point.
Its infuriating and wrong that Alaska cant tell her own story.
But in the process of constructing the maze, the book also seals itself inside.
Id say its also a relief to see Chip (a.k.a.
Onscreen, Loves Colonel is so great that he almost unbalances the whole thing.
The other big defining thing is the unmistakable, nostalgic Stephanie SavageJosh Schwartziness of this show.
Its cell-phone-free innocence feelssodistant from the world we now live in.
