beatlemania is nothing compared to what i feel for john green right now.

this book was the perfect palate-cleanser between all the dark apocalyptic stuff i have been shoving in my face. i have been reading so much dystopian YA that i forgot there were other options. i bought this ages ago, because i read looking for alaska, and everyone was giving this one high marks, but i kept passing it up in favor of "kids whose school is trying to eat them" and "kids vs. bears" and "kids in a world without More...

“Mirroring” is a concept in psychology where a person can know himself better by soliciting feedbacks from other people who he interacts with either at home or at work. Last weekend, I attended a company-sponsored teambuilding session and the facilitator used this. I got some good feedbacks that confirmed what I already knew but also some revelations. Those included in the so-called “blindspots” quadrant.

In this novel Paper Towns, John Green indirectly used Margo Roth Spiegelman for Quentine Jac More...

This book truly had me on an emotional roller coaster, and I enjoyed almost every minute of it.

The book was broken into 3 parts, and I honestly felt completely different about each of them.

Part 1:

The first part of this book was brilliant. It was a lovely introduction to the characters, and their life as high school seniors. It has had a flashback which was a fun scene.

The whole part with Q and Margo out at night was amazing. It was suspenseful and quite fun to read about those antics. We really More...

The following is quite a lot of dribble that I felt the need to get off my chest...
Hmmm...what to say? I'm kind of perplexed by this book. I know I never want to read the name Margo Roth Spielgelman ever again, that's for sure. The characters (apart from the previously named) were fantastic and very believable. The dialogue between the friends was great and funny as I have come to expect from John Green. The first quarter of the book was highly enjoyable and then it deteriorated for me. I think More...

I need to start off with my criticism of John Green:
1) Margo and Quentin are exactly the same people as Colin and Katherine and Miles and Alaska. Quentin/Colin/Miles is this very thoughtful, somewhat nerdy young man who is on the cusp of fucking reaching out and grabbing life by the balls however he can. He is also enamored with Margo/Alaska/Katherine, a girl who is unattainable. She is unpredictable and full of a shimmering charm; she fades oasis-style the closer and closer you try to get. In a More...

"It's so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world...Leaving feels too good, once you leave."

We all leave eventually. No matter who and what we are, or where we’re from, we will someday and somehow leave our comfort zones or the norm of our lives to find ourselves a place in this world. Some people take their time into actually doing it. They spent much time planning and scheming on how they should gloriously plow into life. There are some who tried More...

Let's go back to March 2012. I bought The Fault in Our Stars, which had been getting rave reviews, causing me to make a fool of myself in public by jumping up and down in my local bookshop when I discovered I was holding a signed copy. (Don't worry, they're more than used to my behaviour by now.)

I read it in the space of two days, and promptly had a crying fit so hard that I could have flooded the area where I live. Which is atop a very steep hill. (This sob-fest was unparalleled until I finishe More...

If I were to follow the Young Adult categorization of Paper Towns, I wouldn't be near the thing by a minimum of fifty shouting feet because 1.I'm not young; 2.I sure don't act like your usual adult some or most times; 3. I love to tease friends and some GR friends loved this book and gave it five stars and I didn't like to read it and I just wanted to give it one star if I do so they can plot how to kill me with hardcover John Green books. But Paper Towns actually tries to defy that: categorizat More...

Is there anything worse than poorly-executed pretension? For some awful reason, John Green seems to have developed this skill (and only this skill) just in time for novel #3.

Green completely recycles the faux-philosophical plot of his first two novels as a cash grab, riding the fame-wave of his equally faux-philosophical YouTube channel. The catcher’s calling for a changeup but the pitcher keeps throwing fastballs. (A John Green fastball is usually four minutes of hokum titled “Thoughts from Pla More...

Before reading this book, I had absolutely no idea what a "paper town" is. I thought that it was just John Green's clever play of words on something in the book itself, and after reading how Margo Roth Spiegelman, one of the protagonists in the novel and the great love of our hero, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen's life, described their hometown of Orlando, Florida as a "paper town", I thought, that must be it. Then towards the end of the book, John Green, through Q's internet research, explains what a "pa More...

I could not ask for more out of a book.

Pre-order it so that you can get it as soon as possible, because I'm in love with this book, and it's not a fickle secondary school romance, I mean eternal book love that's set in stone in the Hoover Dam and will out-last catastrophe should all human beings die. John Green is incredible.

The prolouge pique my interest because a girl and a boy looked at a dead body and have two different ideas going inside their heads. I though this is going to be a mystery case.

But when you turned the first part, it was totally disappointing. It was HIGHSCHOOL OVER AND OVER. And for a non-YA lover, this is one bitter gourd. So if you are not a YA lover, do not expect too much.

Paper Towns is about a boy, nicknamed Q, who aspired to be a scholar in college and graduate with a Degree in Law. With a More...

Initial Final Page Thoughts.
Well, I wasn’t expecting THAT ending. In a good way. In a great way. In the best way possible.

High Point.
Elaborate revenge schemes in the dead of night, three best friends that anybody could ever have, black Santa’s, kick-ass parents, poetrypoetrypoetry, adventure, hilarious-do-not-read-in-public-for-fear-you-will-be-judged-for-barking-like-a-seal dialogue, Omnictionary (which, to my utmost delight, actually exists!)and perhaps the most important high point…. NAKED GR More...

At a superficial level, Paper Towns is not much apart from a regular YA novel.

It's about American teenagers doing what teenagers do - surviving high school, trying to fit into social cliques, getting into colleges, dating, breaking up, dating again, losing their virginities and so on and so forth.
Yet simmering deeper beneath that surface, it is a story flavoured with the bittersweetness of life itself.

It is about an unremarkable, often ignored boy named Quentin whose presence is almost taken f More...

"Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop."

Well, Looking for Alaska remains my absolute favorite, but this wasn’t what I expected, and I mean that in a very good way. In the end, it wasn’t what I expected at all.

The first 80% of this book followed John Green’s usual (and usually successfu More...

I had to write an in depth review of this book for my Young Adult Literature class. If you want a really in depth review from a teacher's perspective, you can read it here: http://silversickle.blogspot.com/2009...

Here's a more brief one. This book is fun. It's cute, endearing and witty. The development of the story is very well crafted, the story moves along well with no plot issues that I came across, I felt the whole story developed at a decent pace, and there were definitely no spots that I w More...

Okay, so not the type of book I usually read. Saw this one "recommended" by a friend here and picked it up.

This is a YA novel, sort of a trip of self discovery and growing insight...a "coming of age" novel. Pretty much I'm not a fan of coming of age tales. But there are exceptions.

The language I found annoying, though some may not be as bugged as I was. I suppose it's supposed to show "how youths talk"...but still I found it a bit much. Ups and downs, good and bad. I'll go 4 stars though the mu More...

Margo Roth Spiegelman wants revenge, and she enlists a reluctant Q to help.

Margo has ignored Q for years, because he’s a bit of a nerd and she is one of the popular ones. But before all of that, they were childhood pals and next door neighbors. On an outing in the early years, they discover something awful, which causes Margo to develop an interest in solving and creating mysteries. After that day Margo disappears from Q’s life, socially.

One day in high school Margo finds out that her best fri More...

This is my first time to read a John Green novel. My plan is to read first “Looking for Alaska” then will followed by his other two novels which is the “Paper Towns” and “An Abundance of Katherines”. But I doubted myself if that is the right book for me to read first to know John Green, and for that, I decided to ask my GR friends who read the books I mentioned, most of them voted for “Paper Towns” than “Looking for Alaska, for the reason(according to them) that it is much fun and is a light rea More...

Paper Towns is the first YA book I have read. My friends from the book club recommended this to me, but I didn't really expect that I will like it this much; so much that it inspired me to write my first book review.

I'd say that the prose of John Green in this book is what makes it special to me. Often times, I just have to repeat the lines a few times, even whisper them, because they are just so compelling. His musings about life, and humanity were imbedded with subtlety, they unfold beautiful More...

I think the biggest mistake a person could make would be assuming that John Green, a man with a run-of-the-mill name, writes run-of-the-mill books. Not only are his words beautifully crafted and delicately chosen, but they also pack quite the impact and meaning. With a unique individual voice – in despite of how similar all of his characters are in comparison to another – Green’s works are refreshing reads amongst the midst of garbage being published nowadays.

The only work of Green’s I had prev More...

I am liking every John Green book better than the last. I wasn't a huge fan of "Looking for Alaska" (I couldn't bring myself to care much for those over-privileged private school brats), I really liked "An Abundance of Katherines", and I loved "Paper Towns". I do very much like Green's exploration of adolescent friendship and romance, especially romance from afar.

This one is particularly interesting--and subtle--about high school cliques, image, and whether or not its possible to ever really kno More...

It's hard to say much about the plot without giving away the ending, but I will say that I think that just about any story with this much build-up (and there was a lot) is sort of doomed to... not necessarily disappoint (I wasn't), but... fall a little short of the expectations set by the constant guessing and analyzing the story forces you to participate it. What ending would have been good enough? I can't think of one. But I think Quentin feels the same when he gets to the end. Which is a big More...

Why so many good ratings for this book? It could basically be called Looking for Margo, or Paper Alaska, because it's the same formula, again and again. How many books can he write about an unbelievable teenager secretely loving another unbelievable teenager? Everything was so absurd, Quentin's parents, the road trip, Ben, the black Santas.
All the metaphors are perharps what made me lose it completely. The book that Quentin reads, Song of Myself, all the thoughts he had about it are so painfull More...

Paper Towns is my first John Green novel. I know, I know. I’m so late, but now I have the advantage of buying and reading almost all (I’ve preordered The Fault in Our Stars) of his books straight away, which I will do, because I’ve decided that he’s awesome. His books have been on my “to read” list for a while but I was a little apprehensive about picking them up. I worried that they would just be typical young adult realistic fiction novels that involve a lot of romance, break-ups and teen angs More...

From the way Quentin describes Margo Roth Spiegelman… I am half in love with her myself. NO. I mean, really. He waxes on and on about how awesome, about how perfect, about how all that she is. She likes mystery. She is a mystery. She likes adventure. She is adventurous. She’s totally out of the box. She’s intelligent but doesn't play on it as much as others would. She’s admired by a lot. Girls want to be her; boys want to… well, you get the picture.

After having grown apart, her sudden re-appear More...

Oh my! I love Green's intelligent characters...no booze fests...well, there is Ben's exploits at the after-prom party. Quentin is much like Pudge and Collin, Green's other narrators, but Q loves words and books and metaphors. I'm sorry he didn't read Moby Dick, but I just read that myself.

Q needs to come to terms with Margo however he can, ignoring her, worshipping her from afar, or chasing her up the east coast. He needs to. He thinks he's following clues she left for him, but that may not be t More...