Hello, I told you I'd be getting through books a LOT quicker now that I'm freee! (However I never imagined that I'd be getting through a single book in 2 days but we'll come to that)
So as you have seen, I have read and seen The Fault in Our Stars, and recently have seen that two more of John Green's books are going to be made into films (this makes me very very very excited after the success of TFIOS) So, being the kind of person who insists on reading the book before I see the film, I picked up Paper Towns and decided to give it a read.
Paper Towns very broadly is a story about a boy going on a crazy journey to try and find a girl who goes missing. Quentin and Margo have known each other for years. Now Quentin has his friends of band geeks and Margo is miss popular and they hardly speak. Margo rocks up at Quentin's house one night and takes him on a round trip causing chaos. Margo goes missing, however she has a reputation for running away and coming back, each time leaving clues that are near on untraceable. Quentin and his friends manage to track down Margo and race against time to find her. That summary doesn't really do the book justice, but I don't want to reveal the important bits in this blog, because this is a book that HAS TO BE READ by everyone and anyone. I couldn't put it down. I would get home from anywhere I'd been and just go straight to my room to dive back into the book. Why?
WELL, this is a John Green book, therefore it is so much more than just a plot. From what I've read so far by John Green it is not possible to just read a book. You have to experience some form of enlightenment and venture along some kind of philosophical path as well. You can just be reading what seems to be some standard dialogue, and then BOOM you are slapped in the face with an extremely well written and honest view of life and people. TFIOS explored life and death and disease and things like that. Paper Towns instead deals with people, and how they act and how they behave and how things around us aren't always as they seem. The whole point of the book is that, when they are searching for Margo and attempting to interpret the clues, everyone has a different idea of what Margo wanted them to mean, and where she is, showing that in reality noone REALLY know who Margo is. They make discoveries about her that she had kept from everyone, the book is about not only a physical journey to find her, but also a journey of discovering who people really are. Deep really.
Like I said, it's a must to read. I promise that once you start reading you won't be able to stop, all you'll be thinking is what's the next clue? Where will it lead them? Where is Margo? Why did she run away? Will Quentin actually 'man up'? Who is Margo?
I will leave you with this quote from the book (One of the best but I could list a page of them)
"It is hard to leave- until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."
