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Paper Towns

John Green

Discussion: . Week 3: Book Turned Into Movie

Why we're reading this: My daughter recommended it, and I want to see the movie this winter (but not before reading the book).
[close] My daughter recommended it, and I want to see the movie this winter (but not before reading the book).

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. Week 3: Book Turned Into Movie

* Week 3: Introduction
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Jan 02, 2012 Maria Casey rated it really liked it

I put off reading this for ages because I saw the movie and it was so awful, but this was a lot better thank god.

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Apr 28, 2013 Kelly rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Fantastic. Page 7, laughed out loud, page 19, laughed out loud, and so on. I felt like an idiot because John Green has so many fans already and I am just now reading his work. So witty, so "Superbad"esque. Great character development with "Q" and how we view someone we don't really know and either hold them on a pedestal or think the opposite of them and keep this fantasy in our head, but in reality, that person is quite the opposite.
Each chapter I read, I said aloud.."This has to be made into a ...more

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Oct 18, 2014 Megan rated it really liked it

Shelves: 0x16, own

I really enjoyed this novel, probably my second favourite John Green book next to Looking for Alaska. I was never much into contemporary novels, but is find myself constantly turning to John Green and every time I compare his novels and his characters and their similarities and I still want more. John Green is an author that crept up on me and I think now sits on an auto-buy list for me. This story in particular I feel like I connected with more than some of his others having just left home and ...more

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Oct 22, 2013 Sarah Koehler rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2016

Hmmm. Paper Towns is admittedly not my favorite Green novel, but it's still a good read. I think my biggest concern with the book is the fact that Quentin and Margo are so much like all of the other characters that John Green includes in his novels. The characters are a bit too formulaic for me. In the very beginning, I really liked Margo for her wit and sarcasm, but by the end of the book I thought she was selfish and self-centered and unwilling to think of how she made anyone else feel. Quenti ...more

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Dec 28, 2014 iPetim rated it really liked it

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Oct 11, 2011 Martina Dalton rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

As usual, John Greene weaves together a wonderful story. The characters are memorable, and of course there is that teenage longing for a quirky girl who seems just out of the main character's reach. Loved it! ...more

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