false 49750 14 When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. He's also a washed up child prodigy with ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a passion for anagrams, and an overweight, Judge Judy-obsessed best friend. Colin's on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which will predict the future of all relationships, transform him from a fading prodigy into a true genius, and finally win him the girl.<P> Letting expectations go and allowing love in are at the heart of Colin's hilarious quest to find his missing piece and avenge dumpees everywhere. 48658 21 9 2006 An Abundance of Katherines total:4115|5:1255|4:1736|3:825|2:232|1:67| 4115 16225 6216 843 4 16 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri May 18 21:18:37 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 08 18:24:18 -0700 2007
Then she dumps you.

Then eighteen more girls named Katherine dump you.

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1. Anagrams and tangents
2. Use of the words jewfro, fug, fugger, fugging, kafir
3. Colin's whining--actually, Colin in general
4. Katherines
]]> 2 8 false false Fri Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 14:53:47 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 19:56:43 -0700 2008 Katherines. I read Green's Looking For Alaska and thought it was one of the best young adult novels I have ever read SO I was expecting this book to measure up to a higher standard. Unfortunately, it did not even come close.

Here's my beef with the book:...more...]]> 2 7 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 13:20:09 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 13:29:08 -0800 2008
I mean, for starte...more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Dec 09 08:17:34 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 02 07:07:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 3 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 17:23:25 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 07:58:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 6 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 08:46:59 -0700 2007 Wed May 30 17:38:48 -0700 2007 An Abundance of Katherines represents the best kind of young adult fiction - the kind that even my regular, non-YA-fic-geeky grown-up friends might like to read, because it's just a fantastic, universal, well-crafted story.

The characters in this book are uniform...more...]]> 2 2 false false Thu Feb 28 14:23:15 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 12 11:27:17 -0700 2008 REALLY wanted to love this book. I really did. As a nerdfighter, I was ecstatic when I started reading it. But right from the beginning, I knew it was going to be a big disappointment. And I was right.

It's definitely not as good as Looking for Alaska. Colin (not TO...more...]]> 5 3 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 22:52:53 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 18 16:42:49 -0700 2007 genius so much as a guy with a super-absorby brain and a passion for anagrams; and two, he's been dumped by nineteen different girls named Katherine, and the latest, Katherine XIX, has really ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 09:02:52 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 12:33:06 -0800 2009 In Search of Giants

John Greene popped up on Steph Su’s “Coupla Interviews” – I simply noted the coincidence that he’d written a book on my wishlist – Abundance of Katherines – and that, for an Indiana boy, he’s hot. Not all authors are - think Stephen King, J.K.R...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Apr 29 00:44:27 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 00:44:43 -0700 2008
If you had the opportunity to devise a theorem that could correctly predict the outcome of a romantic relationship, would you do it? If it worked, would you use it? Can it even be done? This is the problem plaguing Colin Singleton, recent high school gr...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Apr 09 19:51:18 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 18:13:41 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 18:13:41 -0700 2008 A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck. (But to be fair, A Long Way from Chicago is shorter.)

Colin Singleton is a prodigy. He speaks 11 languages, does anagrams for fun and can na...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 10:20:18 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 08:02:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Dec 26 18:25:55 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 26 18:26:42 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Sep 25 10:51:55 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 25 11:59:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 09:01:17 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 13 14:59:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 09:20:11 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 21:22:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 06 21:23:53 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 06 21:26:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 16:35:02 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 16:36:25 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 07:21:44 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 07:21:56 -0800 2009
In an effort to take Colin’s mind ...more...]]>