Book Recomendation for Looking for Alaska

This book is about a boy named Miles Halters going to a boarding school in Alabama. Miles meets many interesting people including his roomate Chip (the Colonel), Takumi, and the girl of his dreams Alaska. Watch as they go through school dealing with different issues and situations in their lives. I really enjoy this story because the people seem real to me. The short stories are interesting and compelling but not out of the ordinary. Some issues are smaller like going to a basketball game for the first time at his new school and some are more pressing like tensions between characters before Miles gets there. But when I am reading I have a hard time getting into the story due to the boring exposition. That stuff is all exposition and its phenominal. I await the climax and I suggest you check it out.