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Paper Towns
by John Green
This is the first ever John Green book I've read, so I kind of had high hopes - another example of don't trust the hyped up books.
I read this book because my friend wants to watch the movie with me, and I'm more of a read-the-book-first-watch-the-movie-after person. Plus I've been wanting to read a John Green book for a while, and also I forgot my book when going to college so I got this one out of the college library to keep my sane for the day.
I found this book surprisingly boring. Quentin was the main problem, he was ridiculously boring and had nothing else in his life apart from Margo Roth Speigelman. He got annoyed when his friends actually had things to do in their lives, other than search for the oh-so-wonderful Margo Roth Speigelman. He was an absolute pushover, like at the start of the book he's with Margo and is like, "Oh no Margo I'm not going to do that, that's a bad thing." And Margo is like "Please?" And Q is like, "Oh fine then, if you insist." But then he wouldn't stop having a go at Ben just because Ben got a real girlfriend, not an imaginary one like Q's, and then had actual things to do with his time, unlike Q who seemed to have nothing going on in his life.
Radar was an amazing friend, I really don't know who to pick for best character between Ben and Radar.
Another problem I had with this book was there wasn't much background information until the last chapter. Like, everyone's acting like Margo's parents are insensitive pigs, and maybe it might have been true, but there wasn't enough evidence of what they were like to start portraying them as insensitive pigs. I could kind of understand their point of view, because a young person running away is not as glamorous as this book seems to indicate. I don't know how to explain it, but sometimes I think it is more important to look after the kids who stay home than the ones who run away constantly.
I also found that I didn't like Margo that much and couldn't connect with her either, so that made it a pretty terrible story for me - the 2 main characters are the 2 I disliked the most.
I did like the references to poetry, and the metaphors about life, and the interesting bits, but basically, it's not one I'd recommend to many people because it just wasn't worth it - not to me, anyway.
I read this book because my friend wants to watch the movie with me, and I'm more of a read-the-book-first-watch-the-movie-after person. Plus I've been wanting to read a John Green book for a while, and also I forgot my book when going to college so I got this one out of the college library to keep my sane for the day.
I found this book surprisingly boring. Quentin was the main problem, he was ridiculously boring and had nothing else in his life apart from Margo Roth Speigelman. He got annoyed when his friends actually had things to do in their lives, other than search for the oh-so-wonderful Margo Roth Speigelman. He was an absolute pushover, like at the start of the book he's with Margo and is like, "Oh no Margo I'm not going to do that, that's a bad thing." And Margo is like "Please?" And Q is like, "Oh fine then, if you insist." But then he wouldn't stop having a go at Ben just because Ben got a real girlfriend, not an imaginary one like Q's, and then had actual things to do with his time, unlike Q who seemed to have nothing going on in his life.
Radar was an amazing friend, I really don't know who to pick for best character between Ben and Radar.
Another problem I had with this book was there wasn't much background information until the last chapter. Like, everyone's acting like Margo's parents are insensitive pigs, and maybe it might have been true, but there wasn't enough evidence of what they were like to start portraying them as insensitive pigs. I could kind of understand their point of view, because a young person running away is not as glamorous as this book seems to indicate. I don't know how to explain it, but sometimes I think it is more important to look after the kids who stay home than the ones who run away constantly.
I also found that I didn't like Margo that much and couldn't connect with her either, so that made it a pretty terrible story for me - the 2 main characters are the 2 I disliked the most.
I did like the references to poetry, and the metaphors about life, and the interesting bits, but basically, it's not one I'd recommend to many people because it just wasn't worth it - not to me, anyway.