Paper Towns Review

Paper Towns was a great read. It was your typical John Green book; creative and original. Well original for the most part. I know some of his other books like 'The Fault in Our Stars' isn't exactly an original idea but I'm talking about the writing. The writing man. It's how you can tell apart a John Green book from any other. He uses a variety of big words and some of them at times I can't understand but that's fine by me.

If you want to enhance your English vocabulary John Green books will be of a perfect assistance.

The story was lovely, There came a point when I was so intrigued by it that I didn't want to put the book down. I love anything that is related with adventures and this book has it all. The road trip was by far my favourite part of the book mainly because it showed more of Q's relationship with his friends than his obsession for Margo. I felt like I was on that road trip with them, it had me on the edge of my seat. I would leave the whole book and re-read only that part again.

Here's what I disliked in the book:  Q obsessing over Margo like there was no tomorrow. I get it really she's awesome but duuuude can you give it a break? We all love her. She's spontaneous and all of that good stuff but give it a rest. Gosh. I think it's cute but sometimes it can annoy you. I like Margo's Courageousness and rebelliousness and her open-mind which later on in the book we see Quentin adapting those qualities. I mean I wouldn't call Q rebellious but he's got something of the sort. I didn't like how Margo decided to just drop everything and leave without notice or saying goodbye or even caring at all. Yes her parents are bitter and come off as uncaring but her sister clearly does care and that's an enough reason for her to stay. At least say something, anything! I'm clearly not happy about Margo's actions and even with her reasons for why she did what she did, it wasn't an excuse. I feel like what she did was childish - running away like that.

Here's why:

1. She's Eighteen years old.
2. She's Eighteen years old meaning she's an adult meaning she could've have left freely and had the chance to say goodbye to her family and Q.
3. No one was going to lock her in her room and force her to stay. 
4. An argument would happen at most but that's it.
5. All would be resolved. 

It's clear that she doesn't like the cycle of how people live in; Getting the perfect grades to get into the perfect college to get the perfect job to provide food for your children and yourself.

Margo, you are a fictional character but I'm still going to say this: Running away and ignoring all your problems won't make them go away. You can't go off into oblivion and decide that everything else is irrelevant.

I'm not a negative person I'm actually working on being a more positive person. Maybe, I guess things will workout for you. Maybe you don't have to go through it all. But have you ever stopped to wonder it didn't have to be so boring and unhappy? I feel like more than a lot of people make life out to be such a cruel and harsh place and even at times I'm convinced that it's true. It's not though. People like to talk a lot. They like to put stress on other people when they feel stressed instead of finding a way to work through their problems. They like to make life sound so hard and exhausting.

Here's the truth: Life is hard. It isn't a piece of cake. Things aren't going to be handed to you on a silver platter. You got to work for it. But let me tell you this, it'll be worth it. I promise you it'll be worth all the tears and sweat. You can do this. People, so many of them will tell you how hard and bad it was for them and you should take their advice into consideration (by into consideration I mean know that you are willing to put in the effort.) but you shouldn't let it determine whether you go for it or not. We always hear people complaining about their process through working but they don't often talk about the pleasure of achieving it in the end. 

Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. 

Back to the story: Margo talks about growing up and doing all of these things like it's a stupid, useless way of spending your life. I think not. I think if you do what makes you happy then it won't matter how much time it'll take to get you there or how hard the process will be because you really want to do that certain thing!!

I feel like I kind of went off topic but oh well.

Anyway that's everything that I wanted to let out about the book and if you have not yet read it I suggest you get on with it because it's a great read.



THANKS FOR READING.

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