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jazzy_daveJohn Green "An Abundance of Katherines" (Penguin Books)
When his girlfriend - the 19th Katherine he has dated - breaks up with him, child prodigy Colin is devastated. To help him out, his best friend Hassan takes him on a road trip, where they find themselves in Gutshot, Tennessee, to see the supposed grave of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and meet the lovely Lindsey Lee Wells - who is going out with another Colin and is most definitely not a Katherine. While they stay, Colin decides to plot out a theorem that will explain why his 19 relationships have ended, and whether future relationships will succeed.
If the gist of the plot of the book was hard for me to describe, how much harder to try to summarize my thoughts on it? Well, I struggled with it, as it took me over three weeks to complete it. That's not to say it wasn't a fun read. Colin and Hassan are pretty funny, there are footnotes and lots of random facts that Colin (child prodigy, remember) knows, and I felt pretty smart when I also knew his "not interesting" (Hassan's helpful hints for Colin, who's hopeless in social situations) facts. I didn't always connect with the story, probably because so many elements were so incredibly over-the-top. But it was fun reading and, similarly to The Fault in Our Stars dealt with real people just trying to matter in the real world (that's the only similarity I could come up with, which says a lot for the author, I think). For the mathematically inclined, there's an appendix which explains the theorem Colin comes up with.
When his girlfriend - the 19th Katherine he has dated - breaks up with him, child prodigy Colin is devastated. To help him out, his best friend Hassan takes him on a road trip, where they find themselves in Gutshot, Tennessee, to see the supposed grave of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and meet the lovely Lindsey Lee Wells - who is going out with another Colin and is most definitely not a Katherine. While they stay, Colin decides to plot out a theorem that will explain why his 19 relationships have ended, and whether future relationships will succeed.
If the gist of the plot of the book was hard for me to describe, how much harder to try to summarize my thoughts on it? Well, I struggled with it, as it took me over three weeks to complete it. That's not to say it wasn't a fun read. Colin and Hassan are pretty funny, there are footnotes and lots of random facts that Colin (child prodigy, remember) knows, and I felt pretty smart when I also knew his "not interesting" (Hassan's helpful hints for Colin, who's hopeless in social situations) facts. I didn't always connect with the story, probably because so many elements were so incredibly over-the-top. But it was fun reading and, similarly to The Fault in Our Stars dealt with real people just trying to matter in the real world (that's the only similarity I could come up with, which says a lot for the author, I think). For the mathematically inclined, there's an appendix which explains the theorem Colin comes up with.
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