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Paper Towns

John Green

Start date: February 1, 2015

Finish date: February 28, 2015

Discussion: Group Read Archive 2014-16

Why we're reading this: YA Group Read - February 2015
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Jul 14, 2015 Catie rated it it was ok

Shelves: mystery, contemporary, romance, book-club, young-adult-fiction, adventure, travel, read-2015, fiction

Eh. Nothing spectacular.

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Aug 07, 2014 🥀 Rose 🥀 rated it it was ok

Shelves: audio-book, young-adult

Having read both Looking for Alaska and Fault in our Stars and really enjoying both, I was fairly disappointed in Paper Towns. Basically a coming of age story where a whole lot of nothing happens.

Quentin Jacobson lives next door to the girl he has known his whole life and used to play with as a child. Now as a senior in high school, they travel in different circles. Until one night she climbs through his bedroom window and takes him on an all night adventure of payback to several of her friends ...more

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Nov 24, 2018 Sean Harding rated it liked it

There were some fine moments in this book, and there were some less than fine moments as well. Overall it was an average book. This is the third book I have read from Green, and I believe it his third as well, it is way better than the horrid Abundance of Katherines and about on par with his Looking for Alaska.
He has not set my world on fire, but I can see the progression here in terms of his writing chops, either that or I am just getting used to it and starting to like it. Either way, Will Gr ...more

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Dec 14, 2015 Yusra Asaad rated it liked it

Shelves: hardcopy, 3-stars

This book is done in three parts.

The first part is The Strings where Quentin and Margo go on a car ride to seek revenge on some of her friends. This part was action packed and fun to read. It's like all the years they were apart just melted and they were besties again. I loved it.

The second part was The Grass which was so hard to read since it was so boring. Margo disappeared and left some clues for Quentin to find and he was determined to find her no matter what the cost.
I felt his crush on her ...more

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Jul 21, 2015 Jenni rated it did not like it

Shelves: i-struggled, 2015

It was awful! Do not waste your time. The dialogue was terrible and the build-up, while snail paced, was incredibly disappointing once it reached its conclusion.

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