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| Genre/Form: | Fiction Juvenile fiction |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Green, John, 1977- Abundance of Katherines. New York, NY : Dutton Books, c2006 (OCoLC)608364149 Online version: Green, John, 1977- Abundance of Katherines. New York, NY : Dutton Books, c2006 (OCoLC)608749463 |
| Material Type: | Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Green |
| ISBN: | 0525476881 9780525476887 |
| OCLC Number: | 65201178 |
| Awards: | A Junior Library Guild selection. Michael L. Printz Honor for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2007. |
| Description: | 227 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | John Green. |
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Even teen boys might read and enjoy this one!
Any book that makes my husband pick it up out of curiosity and laugh out loud while reading the first few pages is great book. How often can you say that about a YA novel?
I loved this book. It took me a while to get past the overuse of the word "fug," although I appreciate...
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Any book that makes my husband pick it up out of curiosity and laugh out loud while reading the first few pages is great book. How often can you say that about a YA novel?
I loved this book. It took me a while to get past the overuse of the word "fug," although I appreciate why Green used it as he did. But other than that, I found the book great fun. I loved the use of humorous footnotes. I loved how real the characters seemed. I loved the quirkiness of the characters and the use of math to try and describe human relationships. And I thought the structure of the book was interesting, the way John Green interspersed the present-day with (not-chronological) snippets of the "beginning of the end," the "end of the middle," the "middle of the middle," and so on to tell the back-story. That helped hold my interest.
The premise of the story is that uber-smart Colin Singleton has dated and been dumped by 19 girls named Katherine. He's totally depressed and decides to go on a road trip with his hilarious friend Hassan, who is trying to avoid going to college & getting a job. They end up in rural Tennessee, drawn by the lure of a tourist trap and caught by the offer of a summer job and a place to stay. Colin is obsessed with creating his Theorem: a mathematical formula to predict who will dump whom and when in a relationship. Question is, can math actually predict the future?
For readers' advisors: character & story doorways.
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