I had high expectations for An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green. It's about Colin, a washed up child protege who has been dumped by 19 girls named Katherine, and his post-high school road trip with his best friend Hassan. On first glance, Katherines is a perfect storm of awesome, -- it has a clever protagonist who loves trivia, anagrams, and math -- but somehow it isn't.
That's not to say that I didn't enjoy An Abundance of Katherines, I did. It was funny, and touching and the theme was nice. I think my problem was that it felt like a romance story. It was as if the point of the book was not Colin learning his lesson about mattering, but Colin kissing the girl, with learning as a result. Which is fine, but it is not what I was hopng for.
I'm going to leave this review short like this, because I don't have much more to say about Katherines, a great set up, but a bit of a let down.
5/8
Saturday, May 1, 2010
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