by John Green
"Katherine V thought boys were gross
Katherine X just wanted to be friends
Katherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mail
K-19 broke his heart
When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.
On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun--but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself."
Katherine X just wanted to be friends
Katherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mail
K-19 broke his heart
When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.
On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun--but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself."
I really enjoyed how unique of a character Colin was to me. His longing to matter reminded me of Augustus Waters, and that made me smile. He was different, however, in his yearning to live up to his title of child prodigy, and the way that he would say trivial things now and then (much of which, despite Hassan's insistence, I found to be interesting). The footnotes used throughout the novel were great. Hassan was very funny, and the humor clever. The plot, I felt, could have used more interesting events, as I found myself quite bored near its middle.
The mathematics involved, though I barely understood it, was very interesting. Applying math to concepts that aren't generally numerical is so abstract, but I found John Green was able to concreticize it in a very creative way. Still, I think the idea that Colin actually dated that many Katherines, and only Katherines, is pretty mind boggling. Good thing he met L.
An Abundance of Katherines was, for me, a character-driven book, and I quite enjoyed it.
The mathematics involved, though I barely understood it, was very interesting. Applying math to concepts that aren't generally numerical is so abstract, but I found John Green was able to concreticize it in a very creative way. Still, I think the idea that Colin actually dated that many Katherines, and only Katherines, is pretty mind boggling. Good thing he met L.
An Abundance of Katherines was, for me, a character-driven book, and I quite enjoyed it.
3/5 stars.
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