An Abundance of Katherines
Ratings241
Average rating3.3
15
Ratings241
Average rating3.3
“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is 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.
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This book got on my nerves at the beginning, and I assumed I'd stop reading it. But I kept going, and somehow it ended up charming me just enough for me to finish.
My thoughts about the book were very positive as I finished it. But I can't ignore everything I hated along the way. The humor often tried too hard, it reminded me of a weaker version of The Rosie Project, and it just had a lot of little things that grated on my nerves.
It improved, but I can't give it anything higher than 3 stars when I think about everything I disliked about it.
I just couldn't finish this book. Normally, I can devour a book within a couple of days, if even that, and I started reading this a MONTH ago. I gave it 2 stars because I've read worse books and it wasn't completely annoying, it just wasn't interesting to me. I just couldn't buy into the whole Katherine thing, and some of the language was just so immature. Fugging? Really? I haven't said that since I was 12.
I also decided to read a summary of the rest of this book which confirms that I've made the right decision in abandoning this book, instead of wasting my time.
A pretty typical John Green book. I am a sucker for them.
This was the first John Green book I read - back when I was 15 - making this read a re-read. It took a while for me to get into the book, I personally felt the first part a little draggy. But I grew to love Colin, in all his nerdyness, after I got over him being sucha whiney baby. I especially liked the Katherine stories near the end! There were two distinct parts of the book I remembered from the last time I read it: 1) the part where he pointed to his head when Lindsey asked where it hurt and 2) her letter to him. Which probably sums up what this book is about.
