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| An Abundance of Katherines | 
| Author: John Green
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 83803
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0525476881
EAN: 9780525476887
ASIN: 0525476881
Publication Date: September 21, 2006
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 An Abundance of Katherines September 24, 2008
John Green is a talented story teller. His teenagers are complex and real, and the issues they grapple with are not of your average bubble-gum variety. He makes me interested in the people and hooks me on their stories. He's witty, too. This book made me laugh out loud in places.
Excellent condition! September 24, 2008
Received order in a timely fashion. Was in perfect, new condition as advertised. Would definitely revisit seller.
An Abundance of Awesome! July 11, 2008
**SPOILERS**
Oh. Wow. That was amazing. Snappy writing, footnotes (!!), math, humor humor humor, love, Theorems, a total formula for success. It's the most natural-sounding book I have ever read. EVER. Random thoughts while reading: I loved that Colin had a Muslim friend, albeit a very non-practicing one, but still, I thought it was pretty cool. You just don't see that in books, especially YA books, and it was quite refreshing. I want Colin as my best friend. Seriously, he's perfectly sensitive and clingy and basically my soul mate, got it? The thing with the Katherines was without a doubt, pure genius. Amazing. Amazing amazing amazing. I thought for sure that Colin had made the Katherines up, or that they were all the same person, but nope, all but K1 and K19 were different Katherines, stunning! The story of Katherine the third was also quite intriguing, and you could see that coming without seeing it coming. (There's another point to bring up: the totally wonderful unpredictability of the book! Who'd have thought they end up in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere and enjoy themselves, not to mention, entertain the reader the whole way through?!) The anagrams were brilliant, although please tell me I wasn't the only one who noticed that they totally weren't around in the middle, that was saddening. Actually, the middle didn't have as many awesome footnotes either. Weird. And the footnotes! Random facts FTW, am I not right? I was wiki-ing stuff left and right, and knew that the Archbishop Franz Ferdinand was not buried there :D I wish we'd gotten more of the Katherine stories though. I was terribly glad that we got at least a paragraph for each, but still, in-depth Katherine stories, what an amazing book that would make. Prequel anyone? Oh, and the best quote ever? "You can love someone so much, but you can never love people as much as you can miss them." So strikingly true <3
Fast fine read July 3, 2008
I have not been disappointed by a Printz author yet and this book is no exception. Prodigy Colin is fearful of what happens as he grows out of being a prodigy and enters adulthood where he might just be normal. In his need to matter, he overlooks all the great things that normal life has to offer. The sense of humor throughout the book is intelligent and I laughed aloud a few times. My favorite line: "That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of."
 Really sweet and funny! April 17, 2008
God I love authors whose footnotes are as great as the rest of the text!!
John Green has nailed interesting and intellectual in fiction! I love his stuff; and this book is my favorite thus far. The more I read of it the more I was into it until pretty quickly I was dreading that it had no sequel (I was barely halfway through it at that point).
It is smart, funny, and relate-able. Great book. I wish it were 10 times as long so I was still reading it! (an ending I felt good about too)
phoebe anne
(As a result of the author and his brother Hank, I'm a member of nerdfighters.ning.com.)
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