An Abundance of Katherines
Ratings375
Average rating3.4
Have I ever told anyone how much I like math? I love math so much it should be illegal! It is unnerving for a 17 year-old to love something at least 3000 years old. Thankfully, that will be remedied in exactly one month time! (I Accept early birthday wishes) .
The plot of this story is very cool and I like it plenty but John Green once again ruined it with clichés and cheesy lines and a very cheesy ending. Of course an equation can't predict the future and of course the future goes towards infinity... But not for the reasons John thinks. You can't really draw a function or predict its curve 100% when x goes towards infinity but we can expect a sort of behaviour but no one really tried out a function when x and y reach for example 1273727172737337271717717273 did they? That is the point. His equation is not wrong, but he used the variable ‘time' for mostly months so when it reaches several years, x will become a very big number. So no, John Green. No need to turn beautiful ,mathematics to something very cheesy ... Hence the 3.5 stars . But this is really better than looking for Alaska and Will Grayson .
this book was pretty good, i loved the incorporated mathematical theories. Not much of a plot tho
A quick, fun read. Green always has vibrant, fleshed out characters and witty dialouge and “Katherines” is no exception. I saw some similar themes of identity and leaving your mark on the world that I saw in “The Fault in Our Stars,” but “Kathrines” doesn't quite reach the level of “Stars”.
Summary: Child prodigy Colin has just been dumped by his nineteenth girlfriend named Katherine. He is heartbroken over the loss of the relationship, and he is frustrated that he has not—as he sees it—fulfilled his potential by becoming a bona fide genius and coming up with something brilliantly original. To ease his troubled mind, he and his best friend Hassan go on a road trip that leads them to the small town of Gutshot, where they will make some surprising discoveries about life and themselves.
Rating: 1.5/5 stars
Rounded down to 1 star
Slightly wise in some of its quotes, yet boring coming-of-age story. I am just not the target audience for this book and the comedy is not incredibly my style. Just bored with it, but it was short enough to finish easily.
Read this along with the audiobook and I think it helped me enjoy this book a lot more than if I would have just read it on my own.
This book is really good for what it sets out to be: A YA novel by the author of The Fault In Your Stars. So if you liked that book, you'll probably like this one. As a matter of fact, I think I liked it more.
Eg vett ikkje så veldig mye å si om denne boken utenom at jeg er (forholdsvis) god i matte å forstår lett veldig mye. Derfor likte jeg veldig hodt at Colin hele tiden prøvde å lage denne formelen til en graf som ville virke på alle par. Jeg var også fan av fotnotene. Det virket mer som en faktabok og jeg slapp å se ned hvis jeg ikke teengte det.
Como siempre John Green no me falla, estaba en una sequía de lectura y con este se pasó.
Yeah, it's a John Green book. From what I heard, every book from him is very formulaic. And that's a big bummer. The story here is very interesting. It's not great or innovative, but entertaining. 4/5 would read again (I mean, another John Green book).
Dibanding Looking For Alaska & Paper Towns aku lebih suka buku ini. Endingnya lebih baik dibanding kedua buku yg aku sebutin diatas, jalan ceritanya juga aku lebih suka.
Ada pola yg sama diantara 3 buku John Green ini, cowoknya culun, ceweknya gaul. The Fault in Our Stars hanya nonton filmnya, gagal baca bukunya jadi blm bisa bandingin.
Jadi ak suka An Abundance of Catherine ini, bingung sama kalkulusnya tapi bisa diabaikan hehehe.
An interesting and clever read, in the John-Green kind of way. Although it's not really my favorite genre (i.e. young adult fiction), it was an entertaining distraction during a tougher week. I think after 3 of John Green's books, I'm okay with not being as compelled to read the rest of his works but particularly appreciated the anagrams, random trivia, and quirky humor.
I love so much this book, i was a little “afraid” because i read the fault in our stars which is one of my favorite book but i also read looking for Alaska and.. i was desapointed not because it's not a good story or because i don't like the way it was write but because i find it a little similar. But an abundance of Katherine is my favorite with TFIOS ! it's just so funny and even if i hate math it was interesting and Colin is different compared to other character like him. i love this road trip !
I was expecting more, but it was ok.
There was some dry humor, as well as a few actually funny parts. Some characters were more likable than others, but they mostly seemed younger than they were supposed to be. I don't think the narrator helped, or that the audio book was clipped into less-than-a-minute segments.
I'll still listen to ‘Looking for Alaska', even though it's the same narration and audio style.
Easily my favorite John Green book to date. I liked how the story's footnotes echoed the protaganist's annoying tendencies, like a constant reminder: this is how irrirating he is.
THE PAGE COUNT TOLD ME THERE WAS MORE BUT THERE WASN'T AND NOW I'M REALLY SAD
This book got on my nerves at the beginning, and I assumed I'd stop reading it. But I kept going, and somehow it ended up charming me just enough for me to finish.
My thoughts about the book were very positive as I finished it. But I can't ignore everything I hated along the way. The humor often tried too hard, it reminded me of a weaker version of The Rosie Project, and it just had a lot of little things that grated on my nerves.
It improved, but I can't give it anything higher than 3 stars when I think about everything I disliked about it.
My mothertongue is Italian but I read it in English because I couldn't find the italian pdf anywhere... maybe that's why i didn't fully enjoy it. But it's John Green and he can make you feel connected to his characters. I loved every single one of them and it's a beautiful book about self-discovery. The end is pretty predictable but there are some lines that you can't but love them.
I suggest it!
I guess I will have to abandon this romantic notion that, since I really like the author of the novel, I'll also really really like the novels themselves.
I liked the Abundance of Katherines, but it never crossed my mind that it could be a book for me. I would have probably enjoyed it at his best when I was 14 or something.
I liked all the footnotes, though. Not only because they are a smart narrative device, but also because they do a good job in showing how a mind like Colin's works.
And the math.
See ya again on youtube, John Green. I love you, but as in a writer/reader-out-of-recommended-age-group kind of relationship. So I'm dumping you.
Love, Katherine.
I probably would have liked this book a lot more if I had read it when it was published in 2006 (when I was still in college). Now, it felt a bit too “young” for me. But I definitely empathized with Colin, a young socially-awkward prodigy who tries to decipher love using mathematical formulas. And the Chicago setting didn't hurt either.