Thursday, March 22, 2012

Paper Towns

I have just finished a book called Paper Towns.  Paper Towns takes place in Orlando.  The book's main protagonist is Quentin Jacobson who is in love with his childhood friend, and neighbor Margo Roth Spiegeleman.  After they found a dead body in a park they went separate ways.  A few weeks before their graduation, Margo climbs through her window into Quentin's room and they spend the night driving around Orlando and pranking several of their classmates.  The next day Margo disappears.  After this, Quentin and a few of his friends attempt to find Margo using various clues she left behind.  Overall, Paper Towns is a great book.  Both Quentin and Margo are very developed and have great back stories.  Quentin is very relatable and his voice seems very genuine and real.  Despite a great main character, the whole set of supporting character are under developed and are not very relatable.  The plot is very suspenseful and fast but it is a little too fast and certain senses and events could of had more detail.  Quentin is a good narrator, but I think the book would have benefited from multiple narrators.  The book has a great setting  that is great for the book's interesting plot.  The book is very humorous and there are several great and very vivid scenes in the book.  The book has both a great introduction that will pull you in and has a great  and satisfying ending that wraps up the core ideas in the book.  The book is not one of John Green's best works, but still is a great read.

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