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the_escapologist 's review for:
An Abundance of Katherines
by John Green
Rating: It started out as four stars, but probably nearer to 4.85. So rounded off, FIVE STARS!!! (I hate rating books - sometimes things get five stars for different reasons) So yeah, five stars.
I think its known by now that John Green is officially one of my favorite authors. I just love his everything - his humor, his way of writing, HIS STORIES - the list would go on if I knew how to enunciate it properly.
I started off by liking AAOK and ended up loving it to pieces. I alo think I definitely needed a funny book after all of my depressing love stories. It is about an ex-child prodigy fellow named Colin who has exclusively dated (and been dumped by) a total of nineteen Katherines. Not Catherines. Katherines. After being dumped by Katherine XIX, he strives to become something greater than a prodigy in order to win her heart again. His best friend Hassan (more on him later - he is AWESOME) forces him to go on a road trip, during which he works on the Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, meets new people (including a girl), and tries to get over his broken heart.
There. I probably will never have a career writing book synopses.
WARNING: The next paragraph was written as the thoughts came to me. Anyway, as I said before, AAOK is hilarious and awesomely written. I did like some of his other books a bit more, but with this I loved all of the beginnings and middles and ends. I loved the way I (personally) was able to relate to Colin - don’t we all want to matter? In other ways for me as well, but that in particular. Ummm, I loved how even though it was funny, it managed to be really sweet or thoughtful-ish. Wow. Writing reviews without spoliers is hard. And finally, I LOVE HASSAN. I need a Hassan as a best friend. Mr. Green did say something about being able to maybe (possibly) write a book about him one day. If he does, I will certainly pre-order it.
So, hopefully now you want to go out and buy this book and read it. You should. If you do, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
And I really should learn how to write better reviews.
I think its known by now that John Green is officially one of my favorite authors. I just love his everything - his humor, his way of writing, HIS STORIES - the list would go on if I knew how to enunciate it properly.
I started off by liking AAOK and ended up loving it to pieces. I alo think I definitely needed a funny book after all of my depressing love stories. It is about an ex-child prodigy fellow named Colin who has exclusively dated (and been dumped by) a total of nineteen Katherines. Not Catherines. Katherines. After being dumped by Katherine XIX, he strives to become something greater than a prodigy in order to win her heart again. His best friend Hassan (more on him later - he is AWESOME) forces him to go on a road trip, during which he works on the Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, meets new people (including a girl), and tries to get over his broken heart.
There. I probably will never have a career writing book synopses.
WARNING: The next paragraph was written as the thoughts came to me. Anyway, as I said before, AAOK is hilarious and awesomely written. I did like some of his other books a bit more, but with this I loved all of the beginnings and middles and ends. I loved the way I (personally) was able to relate to Colin - don’t we all want to matter? In other ways for me as well, but that in particular. Ummm, I loved how even though it was funny, it managed to be really sweet or thoughtful-ish. Wow. Writing reviews without spoliers is hard. And finally, I LOVE HASSAN. I need a Hassan as a best friend. Mr. Green did say something about being able to maybe (possibly) write a book about him one day. If he does, I will certainly pre-order it.
So, hopefully now you want to go out and buy this book and read it. You should. If you do, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
And I really should learn how to write better reviews.