Paper Towns in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Jul 22, 2009 Abby Johnson rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio

All his life, Quentin has been fascinated by his neighbor, the lovely Margo Roth Spiegelman. She's beautiful, confident, snarky, and everyone loves her. But how well does everyone really know her? When Margo disappears after taking Quentin on a whirlwind one-night road trip, she leaves clues behind. Quentin knows that she means for him to find her. But can he do it in time?

I think I've come to the realization that I like John Green himself more than I really like his books. I really enjoyed the ...more

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Jan 29, 2009 Noam rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: juvenalia, anglo-america

I really enjoyed this book. There were parts that could have been better, and a few things that came off as more wish-fulfillment than anything else (basically, anything good that happens to Ben or that Ben does), but most of this was very true to life. The dialogue was fantastic - he got the clever teenage nerd speak perfectly. Overall, a good quick read.

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Jun 09, 2015 Alvin rated it liked it · review of another edition

The characters in this story were a lot more developed than the ones in The Fault in Our Stars. I enjoyed the story just a bit more, as well. ...more

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Feb 17, 2009 Kate McCartney rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: teen-fiction

I wasn't sure at first when I started listening if I was going to be able to finish it. Fortunately for me I have an hour round trip commute so I was forced to get through the first disc and by that time I was hooked. Q. is a likable guy who is has always had a crush on his adventurous neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman. He has not lived one moment on the edge in his 18 years of life, that is until Margo Roth Spiegelman ( he refers to her by her whole name as the name identifies her persona, who he ...more

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Mar 04, 2014 Megan rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, contemporary

Have you read Looking for Alaska? Then give this a skip, because it's pretty much the same book. (view spoiler) I've come to the conclusion that Green is basically the Nickleback of YA.

Green does get points for giving us a more realistic Manic Pixie Dream Girl, but I'm so sick of that trope. Also, Quentin is less quirky than Green's other characters. He doesn't give me the impression that he woke up one morning and decided he needed a quirk like all of ...more

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Jan 04, 2013 Leah Fitzgerald rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ya, 2013

I really enjoyed this, but it feels a little too like Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines.

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Mar 10, 2013 Adam Maid rated it really liked it

Dammit if John Green doesn't have seventeen-year-old me pegged. ...more

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Jun 22, 2015 AJ rated it liked it

I've had 10% left in this book for over a year with very little desire to finish it. I read a review which said that Margo was similar to Alaska, from "Looking for Alaska" & I saw too many similarities to really enjoy the book. John Green writes the dramatic be all end all of teenage dramas very well, I'm just not sure I still have the patience for them. ...more

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