It's rare that I write twice in a night, but I'll keep this brief. While I was at the hospital waiting for mom to recover from her hysterectomy (which included everything else involved in female reproduction apparently, meh whatever) I decided to give Kyle's fav book, Looking for Alaska by John Green, a shot and read it to keep myself from getting bored.
It's rare that books hit me on such an emotional level. I'm the kind of guy who enjoys a book either for the literary quality (how good the story is, or how clever the writer connects all the plot points) or how much it hits me intellectually (usually pertaining to the topic matter of the book, such as when I read a popular science book). I was never one to put myself in the shoes of a book's characters. Thus, when I read Looking for Alaska, I was extremely surprised by how much I could relate to Pudge's characterization, and more so, his situation with Alaska.
Alaska, for those who are wondering, is the name of the primary female protagonist of the book. She's a smart, beautiful, open-minded girl who has an incredibly fascinating insight to life. What's interesting about her is that she's kinda emotionally unstable, as you go along you start to understand why she's become the way she is, and you start to appreciate how "human" or "real" she really is. And honestly, this made her all the more attractive to me as a character. I mean, she's perfect, yet she's also terribly flawed. I mean I wouldn't want to date a perfect girl, she'd just be so out of my league. Hence why I found her so fascinating. Obviously, Pudge is enamored by Alaska, but alas, she is in a relationship with another dude, named Jake.
Despite the relationship with Jake, Alaska still flirts with Pudge, and Pudge eventually falls head over heels for little Miss Alaska Young. You can see the conflict inside Pudge when he deals with these situations. Eventually they end up hooking up, and the circumstances after that (which I can't talk about since it's pivotal to the plot) makes him wonder if Alaska was just playing him or if she really liked him and was just caught up with her current set of circumstances. The emotional angst and confusion in Pudge was just so real, and for me, so relatable. Does Alaska like me? Was she just messing around with me, given how she usually is? Was it me or Jake? What if?
Oh my god if only people knew how much that hits me right now. *sigh*
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