book_nut's review against another edition
4.0
A good John Green book; I liked that it explored ideas of identity and perception, and the road trip is one of the funniest things I've read in a LONG time.
2014: still grand, introspective, funny. And still my favorite JG novel.
2014: still grand, introspective, funny. And still my favorite JG novel.
mariaibalda's review against another edition
5.0
It's perfectly in between the styles of "Abundance of Katherines" and "Looking for Alaska".
tjdaz's review against another edition
1.0
I can’t remember the last time a book was painful. Like, physically painful. This took me WEEKS to finish. Sometimes I think it was all just a fever dream or something; like that one fever dream I had where my arm grew a mouth and tried to eat my face. But at least my arm spared me from pretentious, fake-deep, “unique”, “quirky”, “misunderstood”... word vomit. One thing’s for certain, though: John Green is not like other girls.
hillyerla87's review against another edition
5.0
There was an innocence about this book that was so raw and real. I could not stop listening to the book and was sad and felt a longing when it ended.
jessicarosedarcy's review against another edition
3.0
I didn't really like Margo and just thought she was acting selfishly but not an awful book m
mariaroumeliwti's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
- Loveable characters? No
2.5
colbydcox's review against another edition
5.0
This book is one that I have meant to pick up for a while. When I was in Pigeon Forge, TN, I found this awesome bookstore with really cheap prices on brand new books, and I found this hardcover copy, with the blue cover that I had never seen before, for six bucks! I like the blue cover better than the yellow one, which I see all the time, so I picked the book up.
Paper Towns picks up speed when Margo Roth Speigelman, Quentin Jacobsen's dream girl, arrives at his window at nighttime and tells him to go with her. At first, he is hesitant, but come on, this is the famed Margo Roth Speigelman, so he has to go. Through the night, they learn things about each other and have a great time, and Quentin wonders, will that night change how things are between them?
And then Margo dissapears. Which shouldn't be that big of a deal, because she's always going off on these wacky adventures. But this time, she's eighteen. Nothing can be done to bring her back, because she has free will. And what if this time, she doesn't come back on her own? So Q sets out to find her...
One of my favorite things about this book is the writing. Everything is very well thought out, and the book is somehow humerous and serious at the same time. I can't tell you how many times I actually laughed out loud at this book, getting me many odd looks from my mom. Every character is well thought out, and some have quirky details. For example, one of Quentin's friends' parents have the largest collection of black Santas. That same friend is an obsessive mod of a site called Omnictionary. Also, this book is loaded with metaphors and allusion, mostly to a poem by Walt Whitman. If you like that stuff, read this.
This book gets my 5 star review, because it's absolutely awesome. READ IT.
Paper Towns picks up speed when Margo Roth Speigelman, Quentin Jacobsen's dream girl, arrives at his window at nighttime and tells him to go with her. At first, he is hesitant, but come on, this is the famed Margo Roth Speigelman, so he has to go. Through the night, they learn things about each other and have a great time, and Quentin wonders, will that night change how things are between them?
And then Margo dissapears. Which shouldn't be that big of a deal, because she's always going off on these wacky adventures. But this time, she's eighteen. Nothing can be done to bring her back, because she has free will. And what if this time, she doesn't come back on her own? So Q sets out to find her...
One of my favorite things about this book is the writing. Everything is very well thought out, and the book is somehow humerous and serious at the same time. I can't tell you how many times I actually laughed out loud at this book, getting me many odd looks from my mom. Every character is well thought out, and some have quirky details. For example, one of Quentin's friends' parents have the largest collection of black Santas. That same friend is an obsessive mod of a site called Omnictionary. Also, this book is loaded with metaphors and allusion, mostly to a poem by Walt Whitman. If you like that stuff, read this.
This book gets my 5 star review, because it's absolutely awesome. READ IT.
aixa67194's review against another edition
2.0
Bueno, no sé muy bien que decir del libro. El planteamiento de la historia me pareció muy interesante y la primera parte (son tres) me mantuvo totalmente enganchada. Sin embargo, una vez que la historia está más avanzada, como a la mitad del libro, se me empezó a hacer muy pesada y lo único que quería era enterarme de que ocurría al final. El problema principal que le encuentro es que ningún personaje me ha caído bien salvo Margo. El protagonista me parecía insufrible y realmente egoísta (todo lo que crítica de su amigo Ben es lo que él está haciendo) por lo que no acababa de disfrutar de la historia y de meterme en ella.
Ahora bien, el final me ha parecido muy muy bonito y muy diferente a lo que suelen aportar este tipo de historias. Las reflexiones que hay a lo largo de sus páginas son realmente maduras y por eso al final me ha dejado mejor sabor de boca que el que tenía según lo iba leyendo. En definitiva, es un libro que a priori me parecía original pero que podría haber dado más de sí y que se salva por el final.
Ahora bien, el final me ha parecido muy muy bonito y muy diferente a lo que suelen aportar este tipo de historias. Las reflexiones que hay a lo largo de sus páginas son realmente maduras y por eso al final me ha dejado mejor sabor de boca que el que tenía según lo iba leyendo. En definitiva, es un libro que a priori me parecía original pero que podría haber dado más de sí y que se salva por el final.