Paper Towns - John Green

The book is about the main characters Quentin and Margo,who where friends and neighbours in their childhood. They found a dead body and in the evening Margo stood in front of Quentin's window and told him about her thoughts about the dead body. Nine years later she stood there again at night and wanted Quentin to have an adventure... At the next day she was gone and Quentin started to search for her, because she left tracks.
The book tells about a girl who is different. Many people think that they know Margo - but nobody knows what kind of person she in reality is. 

I like the book because it makes me think of knowing people. Maybe we know nobody in reality, maybe everything we think about a person is wrong...

 

Margos Spuren/Papertowns

Margos Spuren/Papertowns

The book Papertowns, written by John Green, was published in 2008. John Green writes a lot of books for teenagers and one of them (Das Schicksal ist ein mieser Verräter/ The Fault In Our Stars) was in the cinema as a film a short time ago.
Margo is a beautiful girl with a special way of thinking, very intelligent, different and loved by everyone. Quentin is her neighbour. One night, Margo takes him to a great adventure with her, and the next day, she is gone. Quentin is sure they are more than just friends, so he starts to search her.



                                                          

PAPER TOWNS, John Green

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back 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 of the girl he thought he knew.


"Paper Towns" is a funny, engaging, eye-opening book. It had me laughing, it had me crying, it had me pondering the way I look at other people. John Green is able to convey an interesting, mysterious novel great for teens. In regards to questionable content, this novel makes use of the occasional four-letter word, has some frank sexual discussion, a bit of violence, and heavy under-age drinking. But really it's nothing any 13 year-old hasn't already heard.


“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”


“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.” 


“The town was paper, but the memories were not.” 

― John Green, Paper Towns   

NO ESTÀ ESCRIT A LES ESTRELLES, John Green

Aquesta és de les poques novel·les que realment transmeten. L’escriptor aconsegueix que durant i després de la lectura reflexionis sobre el que has llegit al llarg d’unes 200 pàgines.

La Hazel és una adolescent amb càncer que és obligada a anar a un grup de suport per a malalts de càncer. Allà coneix un noi que va tenir aquesta malaltia, qui canvia la seva vida completament. La seva relació és única, tendra... Els personatges són especials, la Hazel és molt valenta i forta. L’Augustus és un noi intel·ligent, bon amic...

Tot i que els protagonistes són malalts de càncer o personatges que han patit aquesta malaltia, això no és el fet principal de la novel·la. El que sí que ho és és l’amor dels protagonistes, la manera de veure la vida, la seva lluita pel seu petit infinit, la por a l’oblit...

És un llibre trist, tot s’ha de dir, però també hi ha moments feliços. Tots, però, comparteixen el mateix: et fan pensar. Cal afegir que en un principi no vaig voler llegir-lo, perquè pensava que un tema com aquest era massa delicat, però no em penedeixo gens d’haver-ho fet, i si encara no sabeu si llegir-lo, us animo a gaudir d’aquest llibre.

No està escrit a les estrelles no et deixa indiferent, al contrari, et fan venir ganes de tornar-lo a llegir. I si el llegiu i teniu ganes de més, el 22 d’agost s’estrena la pel·lícula a Espanya.

Us deixo amb una frase del llibre:

"El món no és una fàbrica de concedir desitjos."

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Recomanaria la novel·la a tothom qui realment li agrada llegir.

Ivet Cano Boada 3 ESO B