Paper Towns in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Nov 07, 2011 Wendy E. rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ya, audio-book, heard-the-author-speak

Some great lines in here. Green really nails it sometimes. Overall though, this is my least favorite of his three.

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Jul 13, 2012 Chris Burd rated it it was amazing

Shelves: young_adult_fiction, all-time_favorites, contemporary_fiction

The best writers don't try to simplify all of the messy realities - and nothing about this book is simple. You find that the characters aren't exactly who you think they are, and their motivations aren't so straightforward. You learn this along with the characters themselves, who are discovering that the way that they perceive each other is more a reflection of the way they perceive themselves.

And in the end, even Walt Whitman might not have gotten it all right. ...more

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Nov 18, 2008 Jenny rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-young-adult

Quentin has been in love/awe with Margo Speigelman, his next door neighbor, since they were in elementary school but except for one brief adventure when they were ten, their lives have been lived in very different social spheres. Quentin is a band geek (who ISN'T in the band) while Margo moves in the rarified world of the super popular. Things change when one night, during their senior year in high school, Margo crawls in Quentin's bedroom window and leads him on an all night series of pranks an ...more

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Aug 10, 2014 Donna rated it liked it

Shelves: teen, mystery

Probably my least favorite John Green novel (a bit slow to develop, very talky ending) but still had its moments. I like that the manic pixie dream girl love interest turns out to be a little more realistic in the end.

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Nov 28, 2008 Laurie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2015

This book kept me up too late because I liked the characters so much. Q and his core group of friends come across as so genuinely warm and good. John Green has a knack for writing really three dimensional teenage characters and he succeeds again here.

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