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Paper Towns

John Green

Start date: January 1, 2013

Finish date: January 31, 2013

Discussion: Stand Alone

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Mar 18, 2014 Renuka rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: adventure, young-adult, realistic, humor, e-book, contemporary, reviewed, bittersweet, genre-challenge-2014

Actual Rating: 3.5

This book should be renamed Looking for Alaska with An Overabundance of Metaphors and Walt Whitman. I feel so sad for disliking what should have been a good book, but....it's just another John Green novel. I saw so many parallels to Looking For Alaska (beautiful wild girl who is inherently sad, boy in love with girl, quest for understanding blah blah) that it took away from my enjoyment of the novel.

It starts off phenomenally. I was laughing out loud so hard as Margo took Quent ...more

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Dec 21, 2013 Amy rated it liked it

Shelves: ya-lit, coming-of-age

I liked this considerably less than Looking for Alaska and Fault in our Stars. I still felt compelled to read but felt manipulated and occasionally bored. The characters, particularly our protagonists, were not particularly well developed, and after reading the other two JG books it seemed derivative (and this coming from someone who's a sucker for a coming of age story). ...more

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Jan 09, 2015 Laura rated it liked it · review of another edition

There's something about this book... it was compelling to read, it kept me guessing the whole way through as the main character was guessing as well.
But the way it ended didn't seem to match up to the lead up. So it gets 3 stars, not 4 or 5. ...more

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