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A review by alysynhardt
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
4.0
John Green, what's not to love?
Although I will say one of my friends made a comment about being the only person on the planet who hates John Green books because the characters are pretentious and not believable for their age (not my words). But I like that young characters have serious thoughts and philosophies about life so I read his books & love them.
This one was no exception. The footnotes are one of my favorite features and the main character is so wonderful. I like books where there's a really intelligent, almost unbelievable child (okay, he's not a child, but he's young) character. The book also fueled my word nerdery and fact building skills.
Colin was great, so was Hassan. Actually if anything, sometimes I had a hard time believing they were recent graduates from high-school, I kept picturing them even younger.
The Katherines plot premise hooked me right away and my foreign language vocabulary expanded a bit. I wouldn't say it's the best book I've ever read, but it's definitely one I'd recommend or even read again.
The only things that annoyed me were the dialogue only scenes, because they kind of broke my flow of reading a bit, and the ending where he just launches into mini descriptions of each Katherine.
I also didn't ever think I'd enjoy reading about graphs. So that was a bonus revelation :)
Although I will say one of my friends made a comment about being the only person on the planet who hates John Green books because the characters are pretentious and not believable for their age (not my words). But I like that young characters have serious thoughts and philosophies about life so I read his books & love them.
This one was no exception. The footnotes are one of my favorite features and the main character is so wonderful. I like books where there's a really intelligent, almost unbelievable child (okay, he's not a child, but he's young) character. The book also fueled my word nerdery and fact building skills.
Colin was great, so was Hassan. Actually if anything, sometimes I had a hard time believing they were recent graduates from high-school, I kept picturing them even younger.
The Katherines plot premise hooked me right away and my foreign language vocabulary expanded a bit. I wouldn't say it's the best book I've ever read, but it's definitely one I'd recommend or even read again.
The only things that annoyed me were the dialogue only scenes, because they kind of broke my flow of reading a bit, and the ending where he just launches into mini descriptions of each Katherine.
I also didn't ever think I'd enjoy reading about graphs. So that was a bonus revelation :)