Despite
the end-of-year hassles of getting ready for exams and doing last-minute
graduation prep, I’ve decided that it was about time to sit down with a good
book and just read. And with my roots in Nerdfighteria (see “People Who Love
People Who Love Blogging”) and my incomplete John Green reading list, I decided
that Paper Towns would be a good choice. And boy was I right…
Paper
Towns follows the adventure of a Quentin “Q” Jacobsen as he searches for Margo
Roth Spiegelman, the girl next door who was always too distant to acquire. But
one night in the last month of their senior year, Q is visited by Margo in the
dead of night and taken on a journey of revenge. After the all-nighter ends,
Margo is gone, absent from school, from her home, and from the small community
of their native Orlando, Florida. Shortly after her departure the clues begin
to appear. Small and seemingly insignificant, it is up to Q and his small band
of merry misfits to track down the exact location of Margo Roth Spiegelman.
Through the journey led by the clues, Q makes discoveries about himself and the
infinite perceptions made about oneself by others.
I was
so into this book from the get-go. Green has this way of describing events
within the book on the reader’s level (assuming that they have the mentality
and reading ability of a young adult), which quickly makes the reader
comfortable with the contents of the book. It wasn’t like the book was
preaching about anything; the voice created as the narrator was honest and
believable, which is what makes any halfway decent book readable in my opinion.
Such detail within the book existed to the point where I was right there
solving the mystery along with Q and his friends. It was a fantastic journey
with the right mixture of suspense and hidden secret; the mystery wasn’t too
far-fetched, not too hard to solve as a reader, and not too easy either. Future
readers of this will acknowledge the fact that the main protagonist and his
closest friends are male high school seniors and thus tend to joke endlessly in
perversion. It was almost too much so for my taste, but once you make your
decision to accept it as part of life or simply choose to ignore it except in
comic cases, the book becomes much less tainted, though nothing graphic
actually does happen. On a scale of ten I would give this book a score of 9,
hindered from achieving a ten based mostly on the amount of tainted language
expressed throughout the book.
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