An Abundance of Katherines in Around the World in 80 Books

Jul 04, 2011 mstan rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: for-young-adults-or-children, american, sanctuary, src-summer-2011

The protagonist of this book, Colin Singleton, is a child prodigy - a very annoying anagramming, Math-theorising child prodigy. He has also been in a relationship with nineteen (technically eighteen) Katherines and from the very beginning of the book, is trying to get over having been dumped by the most recent one by embarking on a roadtrip to Gutshot (!), Tennessee with his wisecracking sidekick and Muslim friend Hassan.

Colin really gets on my nerves at times with his moaning and groaning, and ...more

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Jun 03, 2011 Erin (NY) rated it liked it

Shelves: books-i-own, ya, read-in-2011

I liked this book a lot. The math geek in me appreciated its cleverness. One word of warning: there are a lot of footnotes that are not included in the audiobook, so to get the full experience definitely read it and not just listen to it! I listened to it first and then went back and looked at all the graphs/diagrams/footnotes.

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Jul 16, 2007 Agatha Donkar Lund rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, 2007, young-adult

I enjoyed this, but I found the main character to be far too passive for my liking -- which, of course, might be Green's point, but it still annoyed me enough that I didn't enjoy the book as much as I could have. It's good, but I think Looking for Alaska was better. ...more

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Dec 02, 2017 Sarah rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: owned, young-adult, tbr

My least favorite of all of John Green’s books, this one was just a little too gimmicky and predictable (which is ironic, since one of the major themes of the book is how the future is unpredictable) for me.

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