Book Review - Paper Towns
BOOK REVIEW
PAPER TOWNS - JOHN GREEN
BOOK RATING : 5/5
I honestly don't think there will ever be a John Green book that I hate. I so far have loved each and every one I have read and Paper Towns has a personality all it's own that I find very interesting. This young girl Margo is looked at in so many different ways and everyone loves her but they don't really understand her. She puts up a fake wall for everybody to see herself as she identifies as a "paper girl" and that the real her is buried deep inside where nobody can get at. I think we all do this sometimes and the most important thing anyone can do is just be themselves
My favorite part of the book was the roadtrip. It was so exciting, mainly because I've never really been on one. The most I've traveled in a car was a couple of hours to Yosemite National Park and it was nothing like the trip that Quentin and his friends took to reach Margo in time. He sort of identified his new car as a sort of house. I loved the analogy because it totally fit and his name for it was perfect too; The Dreidel. That car accident really was amazing. Those cows should have been the death of them. Thank God for good old Ben and the gracefulness of The Dreidel.
Margo's identification of Orlando as a Paper Town was actually dead on. Most people in the story at first, puts up a sort of fakeness about them. Everybody judges people and labels them forever and you never really get to know the real person underneath the paper that everyone has put around them. Margo and Quentin are the ones that finally put in motion everyone's real selves revealed to the light. It seems the only characters that are truly still evil no matter what turn out to be Becca and Margo's parents. Nothing could make me feel sorry for those characters
I really enjoyed Quentin's parents. I think really of all the characters they are the ones with their head on the straightest. Yeah, they're therapists and sometimes therapists can be annoying, but they don't really seem to bug me at all. In fact they just make me laugh every time they have one of their psychology debates because they're totally laid-back when they're having them, almost as if it's natural to be debating psychology over breakfast.
In truth, I thought for a long time the book was going to end with Quentin finding Margo's body so I was extremely relived when he found the clue that hinted she was alive. I think, for the first time, I've just read a John Green book where a main character doesn't die. I wonder if it'll be the only one. ha! Those writers...how they love tragic deaths!
The overall humor was, of course, entertaining. It's great to read a story where you can laugh your butt of about something that's kind of dirty but still not feel too bad about it because it's just a high schooler with a dirty mouth who is looking for a laugh from someone. I think Ben cracked me up the most though. The talk about his balls being supersized in McDonald's kind of had me on the floor laughing for a long time. And then Lacey's comment afterwards..."Not. Appropriate"
I storngly encourage you to pick up Paper Towns. It'll keep you on the edge of your seat and if you love mystery like me, it will definitely get your detective gene a-buzzing! So take my advice and pick it up! You will be VERY glad that you did!
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