Paper Towns

For my fiction book this quarter I chose Paper Towns by John Greene. It's a coming of age book (oh my!), but I really loved it. It was about a boy living in Florida who has a crush on his neighbor. The nieghbor girl does some crazy things and eventually runs away. He tries to find her, in the literal sense, and discovers who she really is beneath what he had built her up to be. In the process, he also finds himself.

I really loved this book for a number of reasons: 1. It was written by John Greene, who I love, and who taught me how to write sentences with numbered lists in them, 2. There was no TRADEGY, but there wasn't really SUCCESS either, at least, not in the coming of age archetype cycle sense. I guess, there was a little of both, but not in the traditional ways, 3. One of the two main characters was a nerdy guy, while the other was an uber popular girl, yet he exposed who they really were behind who they were stereotyped to be.

I have to admit, though, that there was one part I didn't really like. That was the searching-for-clues-murder-mystery part. I like things to be a tad more realistic, and I just think clues are too Nancy Drew. But, overall, I liked it and would recomend it to anyone.