An Abundance of Katherines

Written by: John Green

Published: 21 September 2006

Format: Paperback

Length: 256 Pages

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Genre: Young Adult Novel

My Precise Rating: 5 stars! (It was amazing!)

SYNOPSIS

Katherine V thought boys were gross

Katherine X just wanted to be friends

Katherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mail

K-19 broke his heart

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be 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.

MY SPOILER FREE REVIEW

“You can love someone so much, he thought. But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”

I seriously don’t understand why this book gets the hate it didn’t deserve.

Like I know all John Green books are about a nerdy guy falling for a mysterious popular but ultimately unhappy girl, then this book is no exception.

But I do think this book is indeed an exception from his other works,

Here’s why:

• I haven’t read a YA or contemporary book which is based on a mathematical theorem.

• I didn’t like Colin as much as I hoped I would, nor as much as I liked Miles, he mostly is annoying until he met Lindsey from there the narrative felt somewhat enjoyable.

• The narration is in 3rd person POV, which didn’t help me much in liking the story, but after getting the hang of it the story is quite good.

• Colin is a child prodigy, dating him has its perks like ‘he can make words out of other words’ or ‘speak eleven languages’ but has its remarks like he always thinks of in how many days this relationship would sink when it is only their first date.

• Honestly speaking I don’t know how John Green pulled it off but writing a book based on the said math and that too without losing his humor is actually ingenious.

To sum it up I thoroughly enjoyed this read, I laughed out loud at times, and gave me the same old thought-provoking moments even though it took Colin the whole book to learn that the future is unpredictable and cannot be theorized!

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Here's a little excerpt from the book