Paper Towns by John Green is a coming-of-age story set in the senior year of high school. This book has been sitting on my shelf for a couple of years now, and finally, I read it.
All rights reserved.I loved reading The Fault in Our Stars and Looking For Alaska.
(Oct.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Readers who can get past that will enjoy the edgy journey and off-road thinking. The title, which refers to unbuilt subdivisions and copyright trap towns that appear on maps but don't exist, unintentionally underscores the novel's weakness: both milquetoast Q and self-absorbed Margo are types, not fully dimensional characters. Margo's parents, inured to her extreme behavior, wash their hands, but Quentin thinks she's left him a clue in a highlighted volume of Leaves of Grass.Q's sidekick, Radar, editor of a Wikipedia-like Web site, provides the most intelligent thinking and fuels many hilarious exchanges with Q. Just as suddenly, she disappears again, and the plot's considerable tension derives from Quentin's mission to find out if she's run away or committed suicide. Quentin has loved Margo from not so afar (she lives next door), years after she ditched him for a cooler crowd. Weeks before graduating from their Orlando-area high school, Quentin Jacobsen's childhood best friend, Margo, reappears in his life, specifically at his window, commanding him to take her on an all-night, score-settling spree. Printz Medalist John Green returns with the trademark brilliant wit and heart-stopping emotional honesty that have inspired a new generation of readers.Publishers WeeklyGreen melds elements from his Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines- the impossibly sophisticated but unattainable girl, and a life-altering road trip-for another teen-pleasing read. Always an enigma, Margo has now become a mystery. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q. Margo's always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she's always planned solo. When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night— dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge— he follows her.
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