le book review number fourteen~ an abundance of katherines

Wednesday 1 February 2012

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title: an abundance of katherines
author: john green
personal star rating: 5/5 stars

From the back cover:

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KATHERINES AND COUNTING...
When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocked, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun-but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and may finally win him the girl.

First sentence: The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath.

The characters are depicted beautifully. I love Hassan's humor, Colin's depressive post breakup state, and the way Lindsey doesn't quite know who she wants to be yet. I had read this book once before and I didn't appreciate it as much as it deserves. I loved Colin's obsession with his Theorem and how intelligent he is. I found his obsessions to be very hilarious and the laughter that ensued was so funny.

I really love John's writing style and the inclusion of such real characters.

I recommend this book.

1 comments:

Becca said...

Thank you for commenting (: I checked out your review as well!

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