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	Paper Towns John Green Dutton Juvenile, 2008 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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Printz Medalist John Green returns with the trademark brilliant wit and heart-stopping emotional honesty that have inspired a new generation of readers.

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The Compulsive Reader's Reviews

To everyone who surrounds Margo Roth Spiegelman, she is an adventurous, unconventional, and intelligent person and a highly admired someone that everyone puts on a pedestal. So when Margo sneaks into Quentin Jacobsen's room one glorious night and involves him in her crazy exploits, he can't help but feel as if a new page has been turned, and just maybe he can be a part of the marvelous Margo's life.

But the next morning all of Quentin's hopes are dashed with Margo's disappearance. Her parents and the police think this is just another one of her stunts, but Q's not so sure. Cause Margo has left him a string of clues, one right after another, which just might lead him to her. But the thing is, he's not sure what he'll find.

John Green brings readers another surprising, witty, and fully honest book in Paper Towns. His writing is captivating from the very beginning as multitudes of details, no mater how large of small, flow seamlessly together. Green has a knack for highlighting the little distinguishing factors that make us human, making for more believable characters and completely enthralling book.

The mystery in Paper Towns is clever, and will leave readers scratching their heads as Q and his friends struggle to piece together the clues with some frustration and tons of humor. But the teens are just as quick to get serious as they contemplate what has actually happened to Margo and as Quentin especially comes to see her in a completely different light with a little help from the poetry of Walt Whitman.

Though Paper Towns did slow down a little bit in the middle of the book as Quentin hits a brick wall in his search, this novel is suspenseful, hilarious, and quirky, and especially appealing to the well read teen. The characters are as real as your own friends, and teens can't help but see pieces of their own lives in this amazingly candid book. Read at your own risk though--Green's works are completely addictive, and once you start, it's impossible to stop.

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Charming and clever

Paper Towns was a pleasure to read.
It's littered with charm, pop culture, banter, and mystic.
I have to say I was so tempted to turn to page 305 and see what happened in the end because every page was a gripping suspense.

What happened to Margo?
I wanted to know.

But I restrained myself and reading without knowing the outcome was more rewarding.
There are some truths in this book that ring so true for my life and struggles with friends and high school that it could have been my own life, there, on the pages. But it wasn't. Instead it was a story that left me with goosebumps. Besides, my life could never be quite as clever. :P
There were some parts that I was unimpressed with. The emphasis of Walt Whitman's poem was very overplayed. I especially hated the fact that I was spoon fed it's meaning as it fit to the book. I found there was a too heavy reliance on 'Song of Myself'. It made the story drag.
However, the character interactions, the laugh out loud wit of dialog, and the quirky bits of a true imagination redeemed the book.
So I recommend it. In fact. I recommend all of Mr. Green's novels because he's truly brilliant. :)

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Go Green for a great read.

I know there a couple of months left in 2008, but Paper Towns gets my vote for best YA book of the year. John Green wrote a book that celebrates literature and the impact it has on those who read it, digest it, and learn to connect with it. Forget the YA tag-this book reaches adults as well.
This insightful, introspective, and ironic page-turning mystery entertains and educates simultaneously. Quentin is a hero to cheer for and Margo is a heroine to hope for. As for the mystery, well, see if you can solve it before Q does.

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