Paper Towns by John Green
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Paper Towns by John Green
John Green is another one of those authors that I would totally be missing out on if it weren’t for book blogs. (And I would be missing out on Brotherhood 2.0, which I discovered by reading the inside back cover of the book and since then I’ve been watching all the Brotherhood 2.0 videos.)
Anyway, I’d seen this book floating around the bloggy world so when I spotted it at the library I just decided to pick it up and I’m glad I did! I can’t wait to read some more John Green. Looking for Alaska is waiting for me at the library, but I have a few other books lined up first.
Anyway, Q and Margo live next door to each other and were friends when they were younger but haven’t spoken in a few years when one night, she appears at his window and takes him on a crazy night of revenge against a cheating boyfriend and back stabbing friends. The next morning she is gone and Q in convinced that he can find following a set of clues she left behind. I can’t say more than that without giving away too much (and I fear I have already!)
This was a fun book to read and I definitely enjoyed it. For some reason I’m having a hard time writing about this book though. I’m not sure why. I liked it and I will for sure be reading more John Green. I think I may have waited too long to write this review though. I think this review is getting kind of lame though so I’ll think I’ll just leave it there.
The one thing I didn’t like about the book? The cover. I think it’s supposed to be Margo but that’s not what she looked like in my mind so there was always kind of a disconnect when I picked up the book.
I’ve seen this cover around the internet also and I think it works so much better. I don’t know anything about this other cover though…is it from another country or is it the paperback cover or what? Can anyone help me out?
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Hi. I loved Paper Towns as well, and I ADORE John Green (and Hank’s!) videos. They’re both awesome.
I’m having a hard time reviewing Paper Town as well, and I read it almost two months ago! Oops. As far as I know, the cover with Margo on it is the HB cover. The other one is the PB cover, and I much prefer it as well
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I read this one for the Teen Survivor contest this summer, and really, really enjoyed it. I have no idea why it was the first to go (I mean, c’mon, this lost out to “The Compound”?)
I suspect it was either disqualified because 1) no one voted for it because they hadn’t read it yet, and it wasn’t as “ooh-this-sounds-weird-and-interesting” as some of the others books in the contest, or 2)its philosophical bent might have been a bit much for the average teen. It worked for me, though. A YA book that extensively quotes “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman? What’s not to love?