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What did you think of it?

I just checked it out from the Library. So excited to start it!! :)

Me too! I was watching vlogbrothers on youtube yesterday, and JOHN GREEN IS AWESOME.

I love this book. This was the first book of John Green's that I have read and I really enjoyed it.

I am just about to read it now :)

I have so much respect for John Green and I found Paper Towns amazing!
I love how it all started with real paper towns like Agloe.

I read this book awhile back and ended up laughing really hard in the library. Got some strange looks, but seriously loved this book :)I think Looking for Alaska is still my favorite by John Green though

What's it about? I've read The Fault in Our Stars and Will Grayson Will Grayson. I want to read this though, but I never really read a synopsis.

I liked it, but I felt that it could have been shorter. I felt that the first half held my attention better than the second. I really loved The Fault in Our Stars, and I wonder if that just made me expect more from John Green. I'll be reading Looking for Alaska next, and heard that one is really good.

Cinthia, I felt sort of the same as you. While I still really enjoyed the book, I almost felt it would have been better as a novella or something. But I did still enjoy it! The "sleeps with the fishes" had me thinking from the beginning that the ending was going to go a completely different way. I just wish there hadn't been so many f-words. I don't mind other cussing, but that dumb word has always driven me crazy. Definitely could've done without that! All in all, a good read.

I just finished this and I agree with most readers. The second part of this book was just a drag! I considered skipping it...BUT I didn't because I just can't do that. Other than that, the book was good, it was funny. I loved the conversations between Q, Ben and Radar. Definitely loved the Margo revenge. I do feel though that Margo took over and ruined Q's last high school days. I also feel as if at times the book was really about Whitmans poem. All in all though, I enjoyed reading this.

Yeah Andrea I agree with you...I loved Q, Ben and Radar: they made me laugh so much :) Especially the Black Santas and The Vessel section, probably the best characters in a book I've found for ages! Also like the Margo revenge but generally I didn't like Margo that much...she annoyed me and the fact she made Qs life quite a misery when she left made me hate her more! Overall I really liked it, going to invest in some other John Green books to see if I love them too :)

I liked it well enough. I really only read halfway through. I guess I got bored after the night of revenge. It was nice to read something by a man for a change since I seem to always flock to the girlie type books.

I also stopped because I had this feeling that this book was headed for a depressing ending. I was even tempted to read the ending, but that's against my book ethics.

Rachel, I almost stopped reading it too because I was starting to get a depressed feeling about the ending. But it doesn't end up depressing at all. Not an ending I was wild about, but you can definitely go back and finish the book if you ever decide to and not worry about depressing endings.

I read this book a while ago and I really love the way John Green writes. Most of the time I feel like his books have no plot and no direction but that's what I love about them. I think his characters are hilarious and down to earth. I really wish more people acted like John Green and his characters. I love the love story in this book because it's so out there and different. No super powers, no zombies, no vampires or witches or wizards. Just a normal boy looking for a not so normal girl.

I Finished reading the Book yesterday. I recently Read John Green's book The Fault in Our Stars, and I really Liked that one. I agree with what Others have said about the Beginning being better than The ending. I was Laughing out aloud during the Revenge parts, with Q and Margo driving all around Orlando. I Found it Especially funny because I have Lived in Orlando and know of Most of the places Mentioned.
I thought the middle With the clues and such was not as Capitivating as the beginning, and I found the ending Pretty lackluster. But the ending Was truthful and that Is what I liked about it. The real world is not what is Written on Paper. The boy doesn't always get the Girl, and that's ok. The girl doesn't always Need to be rescued. So overall I enjoyed this Book. I will be looking To read some more John Green in the Near future.

I really liked it. But, one thing got me... The ending! What happened?!? Did she leave with him or to NY?
And I thought looking for her kind of dragged out too long, especially for her disappointing reaction.

I'm currently reading this book, and I just don't really like it. I want to give it a chance for John Green though. I've put it aside and started something else, but I really don't know if I want to pick it back up. I think I'll try to finish it though!

I just picked it up at the library today. I think this is the first book by John Green that I have read.

Honestly, I'm disappointed in John Green books. Everyone told me that I'd just love them so much, but I just think they're okay. I always figure out the answer to the middle of the book as soon as the mystery is mentioned - (view spoiler)[in Looking for Alaska I knew that Alaska narc'd on Marya and Paul and in Paper Towns I knew he should put up a map to match up with the holes on the minimall wall (hide spoiler)].

I've read only two of his books so far and see that they follow the exact same formula of socially awkward boy with a good relationship with his parents is obsessed with gorgeous, curvy, enigmatic popular girl with a bad relationship with her parent(s), he has one night with her and begins to think he's extraordinary, then she disappears from his life and he spends the rest of the book working with his merry band of misfit friends trying to solve the mystery of what happened to her, culminating in the realization that you can never truly understand another person (and have been informed that TFIOS is the only one of his books that doesn't really follow that same formula).

Overall, I'm disappointed. :(

I really didn't liked this book, I read the for books that John Green published solo and this was the worst of them for me. The first part of the book was okay, intriguing and I read it quickly. The second was when things went down hill, the main character became boring and obsessive and the history itself didn't get my attention anymore. Then, the third part I thought it would get better, and it did in some parts but the ending just made me hate it really bad. Margo Roth is DEFINITELY not my favorite character.

I really liked it, but i was disappointed with the ending. I felt like there was a couple chapters missing.

Just started it! I'll get back to you in a couple of days with a better formed opinion.

to be frank this isn't one of john green's best work.
The story had a very shaky plot, it was as if it were being dragged in the book. And then there was Margo, i found her to be more of an attention seeker and less of a person who wants to be left alone.
that said lets move to the part when she isn't even thankful to her friends for going to such great lengths. Although, i did enjoy reading about quintin and his friends. I love how john green builds up a character.
well, thats all i had to say! :)

John Green's books are amazing and Paper Towns is no exception. When I picked up Paper Towns, I was not expecting to love it as much as I did. By far Paper towns is one of my favorite books. I greatly recommend this book to any YA lovers.

I just loved it. One of my all time favorites.

I just loved it. One of my all time favorites.

I really enjoed The Fault in Our Stars (it made me laugh and cry and think and cry a bit more and then a bit more again) so I picked Paper Towns willing to read something else from the author.
I liked it well enough but it was draging and draging forever... Well, I was quite disappointed (probably I was just expecting more from John Green).

Just finished Paper Towns. Hmmm.... I liked it better then Looking for Alaska. Now that I am done I read some reviews where people thought the books were too similar. I actully didn't have that thought. The end was very bittersweet and gave me the same feeling I had towards the end of Eleanor and Park. I wish there was some sort of an epilogue....like maybe years and years later one of them goes back for the book or something like that.

I really liked it! It had an awesome sense of mystery and suspense, something I hadn't really seen with John Green, and it worked really well. The characters were also hilarious! :)

There were some very interesting elements in this book but some parts felt boring. Also I expected a more interesting ending!! But overall I liked Paper Towns.

John Green is my second favourite author, so this was incredible. I love the quote they use for Margo- "She loved mysteries so much that she became one." Margo is an all-time badass individual, and I am spiritually connected to her.

I felt cheated when I finally finished it !
I wanted a happier ending. But classic John Green just played with my emotions. Lots of feels at the end of this book. But all in all I loved the storyline and all the comedy throughout.

Margo was the stand out, definitely my favourite character. I'm sure Cara Delevingne will do a fantastic job playing Margo.

I liked it a lot. I don't think it was as good as TFIOS but definitely better than An Abundance of Katherines. The ending was sad. I felt like there should have at least been an epilogue.

I really liked the outline for the book, how the journey was obviously the important piece of it. but the ending... could have been better. Obviously not all books can have a happy ending but books SHOULD have an ending that makes sense at least? I really did not understand why she needed to screw everyone in her life and start a new one, and then when they go to get her, she just wants to stay? I wish there would have been a perspective from her that explained her emotions regarding running away and not wanting to come back. Other than that, John Green is a great writer so i did enjoy reading it for the most part. Movie does not do the book justice!