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Nov 02, 2010 Lacey Louwagie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: youngadult

What originally drew me to this book was it's premise of a high schooler who had been dumped 19 times by girls named Katherine. Ironically, this was also a bit of a hurdle to the suspension of my disbelief, especially since Colin narrowed the Katherines he was willing to date ONLY to that spelling of the name, and no nicknames (i.e.: the girl had to actually go by the name Katherine).

This book presents itself as a "road trip" novel, but it's really not. Colin and his best friend Hasan DO go on a ...more

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Aug 18, 2008 Talia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ya-fiction

Colin is an 18 year old child prodigy with a thing for anagrams, memorizing trivia, and girls named Katherine. Unfortunately, Katherines tend to not like Colin so much, as he's been dumped by 19 Katherines, the last one damaging his heart. So Colin and his friend Hassan take a pre-college road trip and end up in Gutshot, TN where they befriend a young girl (not named Katherine!). Colin spends his summer trying to come up with a mathematical equation explaining the relationship between him and Ka ...more

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Apr 18, 2007 Marisa rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: boybooks, maybefuturecommonbookrecs, ya

I LOVED this book! I liked this even more than Looking for Alaska, which I liked a lot. Maybe because I actually liked the lead female character in Abundance (whose name, for the record, is NOT Katherine), and I didn't really like Alaska all that much.

An Abundance of Katherines is also much more humorous than Looking for Alaska and, in my opinion, much more universal. It's the classic teen-to-adult conundrum -- I'm scared of my future, I have some hang ups with my past, what do I want to do wit ...more

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Jun 03, 2010 Noam rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: juvenalia, anglo-america

I was kind of embarrassed for John Green. It's not just that his main character and his best friend aren't likable (Green never claims that Colin is particularly likable.) Well, ok, that's part of it, but it's mostly the embarrassingly racist depiction of Hassan, Colin's best friend. And how much Green bangs us over the head with "pretty people can be smart and interesting, too." And the way that it's unfair for people to judge Colin and Hassan based on looks, but totally ok for them to like gir ...more

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Nov 19, 2008 Lauren rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult

Very silly "chic geek" young adult road-trip romp about 18 year-old prodigy Colin who has just been dumped by Katherine XIX, meaning the 19th girl named Katherine that he's dated. Wherein Colin creates a Dumper/Dumpee Theorem, lives in a town called Gutshot and runs amok with his fab best friend. HILARIOUS! ...more

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