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• Age Range: 12 and up
• Grade Level: 7 and up
• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Speak; Reprint edition (October 16, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9780142410707
• ISBN-13: 978-0142410707
• ASIN: 0142410705
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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From School Library Journal
Grade 9 Up–This novel is not as issue-oriented as Greens Looking for Alaska
(Dutton, 2005), though it does challenge readers with its nod to postmodern
structure. Right after intellectual child-prodigy Colin Singleton graduates from
high school, his girlfriend (who, like the 18 young women and girls whom he
claimed as girlfriends over the years, is named Katherine) breaks up with him
and sends him into a total funk. His best friend, Hassan, determines that he can
only be cured with a road trip. After some rather aimless driving, the two find
themselves in Gutshot, TN, where locals persuade them to stay. There, Colin
spends his spare time working on a mathematical theorem of love, hypothesizing
that romantic relationships can be graphed and predicted. The narrative is
self-consciously dorky, peppered with anagrams, trivia, and foreign-language
bons mots and interrupted by footnotes that explain, translate, and expound
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4. upon the text in the form of asides. It is this type of mannered nerdiness
that has the potential to both win over and alienate readers. As usual, Greens
primary and secondary characters are given descriptive attention and are fully
and humorously realized. While enjoyable, witty, and even charming, a book
with an appendix that describes how the mathematical functions in the novel
can be created and graphed is not for everybody. The readers who do embrace
this book, however, will do so wholeheartedly.–Amy S. Pattee, Simmons College,
Boston
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rights reserved. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this
title.
From Booklist
Gr. 9-12. Green follows his Printz-winning Looking for Alaska (2005) with
another sharp, intelligent story, this one full of mathematical problems, historical
references, word puzzles, and footnotes. Colin Singleton believes he is a washed-
up child prodigy. A graduating valedictorian with a talent for creating anagrams,
he fears he’ll never do anything to classify him as a genius. To make matters
worse, he has just been dumped by his most recent girlfriend (all of them have
been named Katherine), and he’s inconsolable. What better time for a road
trip! He and his buddy Hassan load up the gray Olds (Satan’s Hearse) and leave
Chicago. They make it as far as Gutshot, Tennessee, where they stop to tour
the gravesite of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and meet a girl who isn’t named
Katherine. It’s this girl, Lindsey, who helps Colin work on a mathematical
theorem to predict the duration of romantic relationships. The laugh-out-loud
humor ranges from delightfully sophomoric to subtly intellectual, and the boys’
sarcastic repartee will help readers navigate the slower parts of the story, which
involve local history interviews. The idea behind the book is that everyone’s
story counts, and what Colin’s contributes to the world, no matter how small
it may seem to him, will, indeed, matter. An appendix explaining the complex
math is “fantastic,” or as the anagrammatically inclined Green might have it,
it’s enough to make “cats faint.” Cindy Dobrez
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved –This text refers
to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5. Reviews
Since I’ve always been a fan of Young Adult and Juvenile books–love
to read them, love to write them–I just had to see what all the fuss was about
with author John Green’s coming-of-age novel. What sets it apart from others
in the genre?
I started reading and quickly found out: it’s an original concept, a
laugh-out-loud funny story, complete with satire and an American road trip
that’s unlike any road trip I ever took. I’m enamored with this book and
Green’s main character, Colin Singleton, a loner with a quirky fascination for
anagrams, math and odd facts. His main problem is that he has a hard time
making friends, but NO problem with finding girlfriends.
But keeping them is another story!
At the end of his senior year of high school, “Katherine the Nineteenth”
dumps him . . . only the latest in a chain of rejections. As a result, he becomes
indecisive about his future and begins to question his identity, his future.
What is Colin’s problem? Why can’t he keep his friends? When his
friend Hassan suggests a road trip, what happens when the boys take off?
What does a cemetery in the middle of rural Tennessee have to do with
him? And who’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand? Will Colin and Hassan ful-
fill Colin’s quest to understand why he is always being dumped by his girlfriends?
Since Colin is a fading prodigy whose hobbies include making anagrams,
memorizing odd historical facts, mathematical equations, and dating girls named
Katherine, what mathematical equation does he formulate to explain why so
many dump him? And just how many Katherines make an “abundance?”
You’re invited on Colin’s journey to find the answers to all those ques-
tions, but I can tell you one thing without spoiling the plot: you’re in for one
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