About Paper Towns
Who is the real Margo?
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they’re for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew…
Detail
Complete Title: Paper Towns
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 305
Publication Time: September 22, 2009
Publisher: Speak
ISBN: 014241493X
ISBN13: 9780142414934
About John Green
John Green
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
John Green’s first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. In January 2012, his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars, was met with wide critical acclaim, unprecedented in Green’s career. The praise included rave reviews in Time Magazine and The New York Times, on NPR, and from award-winning author Markus Zusak. The book also topped the New York Times Children’s Paperback Bestseller list for several weeks. Green has also coauthored a book with David Levithan called Will Grayson, Will Grayson, published in 2010. The film rights for all his books, with the exception of Will Grayson Will Grayson, have been optioned to major Hollywood Studios.
In 2007, John and his brother Hank were the hosts of a popular internet blog, “Brotherhood 2.0,” where they discussed their lives, books and current events every day for a year except for weekends and holidays. They still keep a video blog, now called “The Vlog Brothers,” which can be found on the Nerdfighters website, or a direct link here.
Reviews Paper Towns
“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will,” she says.”But then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
I already said this in a status update but I am so glad I reread Paper…
Emily May
I need to start off with my criticism of John Green:1) Margo and Quentin are exactly the same people as Colin and Katherine and Miles and Alaska. Quentin/Colin/Miles is this very thoughtful, somewhat…
Jamie Felton
Why so many good ratings for this book? It could basically be called Looking for Margo, or Paper Alaska, because it’s the same formula, again and again. How many books can he write about an unbelievab…
Sophia.
I enjoyed Paper Towns but did not love it as much as Johns other work. The ending was not as fulfilling as I hoped.3.5/5 stars Xx…
Sasha Alsberg
2/5 Stars ⭐️ ⭐️“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”Oh boi. This motherfucking book. Let me talk to you about this book. I HATED THE GUTS OUT OF IT. I…
Maria
beatlemania is nothing compared to what i feel for john green right now. this book was the perfect palate-cleanser between all the dark apocalyptic stuff i have been shoving in my face. i have been re…
karen
The following is quite a lot of dribble that I felt the need to get off my chest…Hmmm…what to say? I’m kind of perplexed by this book. I know I never want to read the name Margo Roth Spielgelman e…
Nicole
Oh dear lord, I found this book immensely irritating.I’ve only just finished reading Looking For Alaska (which was an okay book) and thus it was immediately apparent that this book was EXACTLY LIKE LO…
L DelaRG
“Mirroring” is a concept in psychology where a person can know himself better by soliciting feedbacks from other people who he interacts with either at home or at work. Last weekend, I attended a…