What a great book! I got yesterday morning and started reading this book and before I knew it and was finished by midnight! It was very easy to read and to get interested into right away. I am glad the story started out so quickly with the all night raid to get her so called friends back. I always like to see how the beginning of books ties to the entire story and how it wraps everything up at the end. The author was pretty descriptive with the characters, but maybe not as much as some of the other books that we've read. The settings were very descriptive in my mind though. I can still visualize the abandoned building and Q traveling to all of the "paper towns" to look for her, and then finally finding her in Agloe. I think several different themes could brought up about this book. One is how teens like to impress others and become someone different during their HS years. I think you could talk to teens about just being yourself and finding out your own true identity. I like how Q pretty much knew who he was. He wasn't the most confident at things, but he had his group of friends that he was proud of. They had their own things that they liked to do together. I think Q learned a lot of about himself during the journey as well. Another theme that kept coming up was the topic of death. They found the dead man in the beginning, then Q thought that Margo had killed herself.
I also liked how the author used a lot of humor through out the book. Probably my favorite line that made me laugh out loud was when Radar had to wear a confederate flag t-shirt over his graduation gown. I think it is important to have laughter throughout books, especially if young adults will be reading them!
Another thing that I thought I was interesting was just the whole paper towns aspect. I had never heard of maps putting fake places on there for copyright reasons.
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