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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Paper Towns

Paper Towns
by John Green
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life - dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues - and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew. (description from Amazon.com)
I was a little disappointed when I read this book. Don't get me wrong. It was good....but, I had heard SOOO many people rave about this book that I think my expectations became just a little too high.
There were some funny scenes. It was very well written. I liked the characters. I loved the idea of Q coming to the realization that even though he'd worshipped Margo from afar for years, he never really knew her.
The road trip scene was my favorite part of the book. I laughed aloud quite a bit, but then when they actually found Margo I was somewhat disappointed. Overall, I think I'm going to try and balance out my disappointment by trying An Abundance of Katherines next. I really loved his writing with David Levithan in Will Grayson, Will Grayson!

3 comments:

  1. I wasn't bowled over by this one either. I thought it had too many similarities to An Abundance of Katherines and to some extent Looking for Alaska

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  2. Yeah. It was good, but it wasn't "spectacular." Oh well.

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  3. I had the same reaction - good and interesting but not amazing. I think it's just not my kind of book.

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