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Paper Towns and Paper Girls: Manic Pixie Ideals Hurt Everyone

April 24, 2014 by HC 3 Comments

I bought Paper Towns by John Green because I’m mildly obsessed with him and I loved The Fault in Our Stars. I very unfairly thought I’d be a little disappointed by Paper Towns because I was aware of my high expectations, but I was wrong. It’s fantastic. The Fault in Our Stars is about losing someone you love totally unfairly to cancer. Paper Towns is about losing someone you love out of the blue, not knowing what happened to her, and slowly figuring out that […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: adventure, Fiction, john green, MPDG, mystery, Young Adult

HC's CBR6 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: adventure, Fiction, john green, MPDG, mystery, Young Adult ·
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    Thank you!! I thought it was crap and you’ve explained why better than I ever could. I have just one...
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    The cover is amazing, though.
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    I absolutely LOVED of monsters and mainframes, I didn't read your review but I am putting this on hold immediately...
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    on my first finished bingo card!
    Yes, I would agree with that.
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