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“Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you know your condition is grave”
Colin and Hassan are both geeks, actually. And they've both graduated high school and have a summer stretching out ahead of them. Hassan needs to get his life together. Colin needs to get over being dumped by yet another girl - the nineteenth girl (all named Katherine) that he's dated. Obviously this calls for a road trip.
“Shame about how we’re...more
I just love John Green. His writing is always smart and funny, and his characters are all so interesting. You love them and hate them at times, and you can see their flaws while they can't, but you still root for them. He's also so great at being non-heteronormative without seeming to try, even though most of his main characters are heterosexual. Each book is similar, but so vastly different that they are wonderful. I know I'm grouping them all together now, but I can't sing his praises enough.
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Okay, so something I really really love about this book is the footnotes. The book reads as very Train of Thought from the point of view of a prodigy (coughgeniuscough) and that means that sometimes the story goes into tangents, but those tangents are often told through Chicago-Style footnotes at the bottom of the page. I adored those footnotes and the style of the writing and so much of this book.
A coworker of mine thought the message of the book was too 'girly' and 'smooth' because no one dies ...more
A coworker of mine thought the message of the book was too 'girly' and 'smooth' because no one dies ...more
Apr 19, 2014
Valley
rated it
it was ok
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young-adult-fiction,
romance
