Not really wanting to categorize it, in essence it is a 'coming of age' of a variety of students with a variety of backgrounds. Miles has an instant attraction to Alaska, she is definitely one who changes his life. Miles is the new student from Florida, one of the students he meets is a girl named Alaska Young, tall, attractive, smart, vivacious, but often troubled, partly because of how she lost her mother only a few years earlier. Most of it is filmed in the Hammond, Louisiana area. The author based a lot of it on his own experiences as a teenage student. It is set mostly in 2005, in a rural boarding school that more resembles a summer camp. Not only is it presented very well, there are a couple of interesting extras on bringing the book to the screen. This is probably the best 'mini series' I have seen, originally broadcast on Hulu, I found it on a set of three DVDs at my public library. I'm glad that the creators of the show felt the same connection to the book as I did and so far it's pretty safe to say they knocked it out of the park.

Being funny and serious all when he needs to be. Takumi's actor is also quite the stand out. The Colonel, for me anyways, seems to have nailed (and in some ways surpassed) his character. Pudge is just as awkwardly in enthralled with Alaska as he was in the book, and though most of feelings are internalized through thought in the story, I feel the actor who portrays him is right on the money. The whole cast, for that matter, is exactly how I imagined them way back in 2010. As hard and embarrassing as it is to admit I've been in love with Alaska since I was 13 and the actress (forgive me for forgetting her name) absolutely nailed her incredible, loving, profound, and as the Colonel puts it, moody personality. The show (as of the 3rd episode) has been damn near as moving and enthralling as the novel was for me. I seem to have been waiting for a screen adaptation for nearly 10 years and somehow I never wanted it to get made, thinking that there was no way it could be at the caliber that I found the book. I read it for the first time in 2010 and it's safe to say it's my favorite book being that I've read it 12 times and have most of the pages highlighted like a bible.

I'm 3 episodes in and I'm actually stunned at how well they captured the tone of the book.

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