Read for: YA Challenge
After falling in love with John Green's writing in Looking for Alaska, I took the opportunity while visiting the Elliot Bay Book Company in Seattle, to buy both An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns.
An Abundance of Katherines is about Colin Singleton, a high school graduate and child prodigy who has just been dumped by his girlfriend, Katherine. In fact, all Colin's girlfriends have been called Katherine...all nineteen of them. After being dumped shortly after graduating, Colin and his best friend, Hassan, decide to go on a road trip, while Colin continues to work on his Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability. On this road trip, Colin and Hassan find themselves in middle of nowhere Gutshot, where they meet Lindsay, not a Katherine but something very different.
Katherines is a little more daring than Looking for Alaska, while at the same time, very little appears to happen. Although I did not find myself becoming particularly attached to the characters in this book, I did enjoy the writing, particularly the mathematics that pervade the story. I also liked Green's use of footnotes for these mathematical formulae and other amusing tidbits.
Sadly, I did not love Katherines as I did Alaska, but it was a well written book regardless. I would recommend it as an example of John Green's intuituve and insightful writing, although as other bloggers have pointed out, not everyone would consider this book suitable for younger teens.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
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5 comments:
Alaska is my favourite, too, but I did like this one.
I loved Looking for Alaska! I've this book in my pile but just haven't got around to reading it yet.
I've been meaning to get to this one for ages. I did love Alaska, too, so I guess it's good having my expectations at a reasonable place for this one - thanks for the review!
It does sound good, even if you didnt love it as much as his other book. Great review!
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Kailana - Alaska wins hands down, though I have really enjoyed Paper Towns. Review soon :)
Melody - You should see the size of my TBR pile, its embarrassing!
Darla - I hope you like Katherines, it is definitely worth a read. I was spoilt from the start with Alaska!
Naida - Thanks, hope you enjoy it.
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