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Paper Towns by John Green
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it was amazing

If you liked Looking for Alaska and Abundance of Katherines, you will LOVE this book. I could NOT put it down. It's funny and mysterious and just so real. Definitely recommended.
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August 17, 2008 – Shelved

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message 1: by Amira (new)

Amira Can you believe no-one in the UK has published any of John Green's books? Unbelievable.


Maya Ganesan I loved it so much. My personal favorite. Ever.


message 3: by Jessica (last edited Apr 12, 2010 09:16PM) (new) - added it

Jessica Looking for Alaska was the first John Green book that I read. I absolutley loved it. Afterwards, I read Paper Towns with high expectations. I didn't think it was that great of a book. I liked the characters and the writing was fantastic, but the overall plot of the story was so similar to Looking for Alaska that it got farely easy to figure out what was going to happen.
The semi-nerdy guy
The mysterious girl he secretly loves
The two male friends
The girl disappears
The popular/rich kids that he and his friends despise

Same old, same old


Juan  Moreno. to be honest, this book should be read just by kids from 12 to 15 years of age. for it has nothing that can make you appreciate it... each chapter has no meaning and the game that morgan plays is really girlish.... futhermore, when you feel that youre having an enigma in your family like the one that she has, you disscuss it with your family, and not run away like she does, for it demonstrates that youre pretty weak, and each time you have to phase an obsticle, you'll run away becuase you never learned how to deal with it..... thus i believe this book really sucks.... by the way, he doesn't decribe the protaginstsof the book, and at the end you realize that one of then if a black guy but where is the description of the others....


Audrey Class I kind of feel like if you liked Looking for Alaska and Abundance of Katherines, you will be bored with this book, because the characters follow the same formula. I'm kinda done with John Green's Manic Pixie Dream Girl type. =P


message 6: by Brooke (new) - added it

Brooke Kaylynn its kinda boring me but I will finish I can read looking for Alaska...im worried I wont like it it so


Blanche Aclan tbh, Looking for Alaska is far more better than Paper Towns.


message 8: by Caroline (new)

Caroline I agree that most people who liked Looking for Alaska and Abundance of Katherines would like this book, but that's because it's almost a duplicate. The characters are the same: cool, mysterious girl; nerdy, award boy. The story lines are also so similar, that this book could be called Looking for Margo, because that's all that happens. I also found it to be incredibly NOT real at all. No one can solve a mystery that complicated that quickly. The whole mystery, Margo, the road trip, it was all over-romanticized, which is something John Green looooves to do. He inserts some universally relatable lines that hit every high-school girl really hard, but when you look more into it, you can see that that's all the substance in the book. The rest is fluff and unnecessary quirks.


Autumn Thomason I hated An Abundance of Katherine's and even prefer Paper Towns over Looking for Alaska. I think my main problem with Looking for Alaska is I hated most of the characters.


message 10: by Ellen (new)

Ellen Lee You couldn't put it down? Didn't your arms get tired?


²Ñ²¹°ùí²¹ It's not so real, actually. Do you know anyone who has been gone for so long without saying a word??


message 12: by nina (new) - rated it 2 stars

nina its litrally the same thing, same characters, very similar plot


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