Paper Towns in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Jan 10, 2015 Krissy rated it liked it

Shelves: audiobook, lawlz, pgs-300-399, book2film, read-before-2015

This book started out great. It was fun and exciting and I was having a great time reading it. Then it just plummeted. The middle dragged on for what seemed like forever. Q really started to get on my nerves with his obsession with Margo. The fact that he dragged his friends into his obsession and would actually get mad at them if they wanted to do or talk about something else really pissed me off. God forbid they have their own lives.

The book picked back up slightly during the road trip only b ...more

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Aug 27, 2014 Gabrielle S rated it it was ok

Maybe I should not have read this fairly recently after "Looking for Alaska" because it is, as even the author himself admits, pretty much the same story. I did not like Quentin and I did not like Margo.

It feels weird to dislike a book that everyone else seems to like but there you have it. ...more

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Mar 10, 2015 Piepie | The Napping Bibliophile rated it it was ok

Shelves: did-not-finish

The Fault in Our Stars so impressed me, but my hopes weren't high going into this book. About 3/4's in and I still can't make myself finish this-- don't want to waste my time any more. Margo annoys me and seems very full of herself. Q is okay, his friends Radar and Ben made me laugh, especially the prom scenes and the beer sword, but I can't take any more of this book that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Just find Margo already; why does she have to make it so complicated?? I've only re ...more

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Jul 12, 2015 Kris Springer rated it really liked it

Well, I obviously liked this one, since I gave it a 4. But not a 5, because Green has traveled this literary road before, with similar characters and situations. Because I'm a fan of Green 's larger themes, I enjoyed the book. But it's not the only story that can be told--and that's why if someone reads Green's novels, she will find more new stuff in Looking for Alaska (written before Paper Towns) and especially in The Fault in our Stars.

Strongest part of the book is about 70 pages from the end ...more

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Apr 18, 2014 Lisa rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ya-lit

In the style of Quentin:
1. I am too old to fully appreciate the teenage angst and deep meanings I'm supposed to feel while reading this.
2. Margo, while meant to be this legendary character (evident from all the Margo Roth Spiegelman references) is really just an extremely self centered brat.

So this is an adventure story taking place at the end of the character's senior year of high school. First with Margo and Quentin during a night of stunts orchestrated by Margo to get even with those who wro ...more

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Apr 29, 2014 Sara rated it liked it

Shelves: 2015-reads

Entertaining but not great. Honestly, it was so similar to Looking for Alaska that I probably won't remember this one in detail or be able to distinguish between the two in a few months. ...more

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