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I had high hopes because I've read so little John Green.
How to describe my feelings is evading me. I enjoyed how much I laughed in the beginning, early on, but after a while it was just too much. The mystery of Margo just became engulfing - so much Margo and not a lot of subplot. It got to the point where I needed to know what happened more than I wanted to, if that makes sense to anyone else other than me. ...more
How to describe my feelings is evading me. I enjoyed how much I laughed in the beginning, early on, but after a while it was just too much. The mystery of Margo just became engulfing - so much Margo and not a lot of subplot. It got to the point where I needed to know what happened more than I wanted to, if that makes sense to anyone else other than me. ...more
four stars for John Green's language -- he has a special turn of phrase that I appreciate -- and for enlightening me on Whitman's Leaves of Grass, which I, like Q in the novel at first, always found dense and hard to get into (in fact, I still have never finished it).
I only got this book because I saw the movie trailer and immediately thought that it was probably better as a book. And I suspect I'll be right, because how is the movie going to make all that sitting around meditating on the meani ...more
I only got this book because I saw the movie trailer and immediately thought that it was probably better as a book. And I suspect I'll be right, because how is the movie going to make all that sitting around meditating on the meani ...more
Watched the movie with my daughter, who then got me her copy of the book to read. It was next to me when the power went out, so I started reading until it got too dark to read.
Aug 18, 2014
Cathy
marked it as to-read
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Amber
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