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Paper Towns

John Green

Start date: July 1, 2014

Finish date: July 31, 2014

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Mar 14, 2014 ♥Booknerdswift♥ rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2015-books

I actually liked this better than TFIOS. The first time I tried reading it, I just couldn't get into it. Now, it's good. What happened if Quentin never went to look for Margo? If some of it didn't happen? ...more

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Mar 18, 2014 Renuka rated it really liked it

Shelves: humor, reviewed, young-adult, adventure, realistic, e-book, contemporary, bittersweet, genre-challenge-2014

Actual Rating: 3.5

This book should be renamed Looking for Alaska with An Overabundance of Metaphors and Walt Whitman. I feel so sad for disliking what should have been a good book, but....it's just another John Green novel. I saw so many parallels to Looking For Alaska (beautiful wild girl who is inherently sad, boy in love with girl, quest for understanding blah blah) that it took away from my enjoyment of the novel.

It starts off phenomenally. I was laughing out loud so hard as Margo took Quent ...more

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Jul 30, 2010 Autumn rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Not my favorite John Green. I had tried to read this once before, and didn't get far- I believe I didn't even make it through the night of pranks that opens the book. That time, I remember thinking "Why am I supposed to care about these characters?"- that is exactly how I felt the second time through as well. This time, I decided to listen to the audio book and I did finish, but I didn't enjoy it as much as some of Green's other books. I felt like the supporting characters- Ben, Radar, and Lacey ...more

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Sep 03, 2013 ellie k rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult

Eh. It's alright. It's my third JG novel and definitely not my favourite. Paper Towns starts strangely, but not badly ... then after Margo disappears, it flounders around for another - what feels like - 1000 pages, as Q becomes miserable about some girl he doesn't really know running away. He's self-centered and irritating, and one of the least believable characters in the novel.

In fact, the only worse character in the book is Margo, who is the most selfish and strangest character ever. The book ...more

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