Paper Towns: John Green

Excerpt:

Who is the real Margo?

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew...

My Review:

Paper Towns is a fascinating story, and although it may not appeal to everyone, I thought it was an excellent book when I read it for the first time. And it was a story that I could relate to a great deal when I first read it during that period, and it still evokes many memories of that time. The feeling of living in a city where it is empty from the inside and where one person's feelings and behaviors are temporary and do not matter to anyone else would be familiar to me.

It's about Q who loves Margo since a young kid but never had the courage to talk to her but that changes one night when Margo bumps into her house and take him on a crazy adventure where she goes on revenge with her ex-boyfriend for cheating, Margo encourages Q to help her to do a serious of funny and crazy pranks which he wouldn't dare to do it by himself but he realizes the joy and thrill he gets from doing it and it wouldn't happen anytime again and as long as he could spend the rest of his life with Margo, that is what he wanted.

In YA fiction, John Green holds a candle in the darkness when he has ideas with such relatability of characters and some might disagree, but I felt the book had been written specifically for me as I felt their emotions and thoughts through each page, which were paralleling my own emotions. These are some of my favorite quotes from the book.

“As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.”

"All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone is demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.”

“I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”

Final Verdict: Paper Towns is my personal favorite book and I would like to see more people discuss it, as it is a very relatable and captivating story about taking risks and living an exciting life without worrying about what lies ahead, and rather enjoying the moment in which we find ourselves.