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Paper Towns by John Green
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it was amazing
bookshelves: young-adult

How does John Green do it?  I'm at a serious loss for words.  All I can think of is beautiful, but it's so overused that it just won't work.
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John Green
“Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You can see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean, look at it, Q: look at all those culs-de-sac, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.”
John Green, Paper Towns

John Green
“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”
John Green, Paper Towns

John Green
“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
John Green, Paper Towns


Reading Progress

January 21, 2009 – Shelved
January 30, 2009 – Shelved as: young-adult
Started Reading
February 16, 2009 –
page 11
3.61% "John Green seems to have a thing for mysterious girls."
February 16, 2009 –
page 126
41.31%
February 16, 2009 – Finished Reading

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