I loved
John Green's latest novel The Fault in Our
Stars as so many other people did. So I was interested in reading some of
his other novels.
I
picked up his 2006 novel An Abundance of
Katherines at the library. I had a bit of trouble getting into it. I had
trouble warming up to the protagonist whose main features seem to be that he
was a very smart and that he’d been dumped by 19 girls named Katherine. That
wasn't enough for me to really empathize with or understand him and I struggled
several times just to keep reading. Things improved a bit when the protagonist,
Colin, and his best friend, Hassan, embark on a road trip. They meet some
interesting characters along the way and the plot picks up. The less time we spend
with Collin and his heartbreak the better, for me at least. In fact, my
favorite part of the novel wasn't even written by John Green. It’s the appendix,
where a mathematician friend of the author’s explains Colin's search for a
mathematical formula that will predict the length of a relationship.
I'd love to hear your opinion on these two books or your suggestions for new types of crackers! Please let me know in the comments if you have any suggestions of other books to read or crackers to eat. Thanks!
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