#review; Paper Towns.

hello again!

I'm back with not-so-fresh book which I just finished read for about fourth times. this time I would introduce to you guys, a very clever author named John Green. I know about John Green for the first time when I was watching his "the fault in our stars" movie as my first cinema date with my boyfriend. a really interesting story, so after that I decided to buy the book because I was so curious about the "original" story (as you know, some movies had cut several scenes from the book, and that's annoyed me so much). that book succesfully dropped my tears, his writings were beautiful. and so on, I started to buy his another book, and it was the book which I want to write about now. it's "Paper Towns". let me start the review.

there's a boy named Quentin Jacobsen whom believed that simple miracle had just happen in his life when Margo Roth Spiegelman was moving to the next door of his house. Q believed that the thing about Margo Roth Spiegelman is that really all he could ever do was let her talk, and then when she stopped talking encourage her to go on, due to the facts that 1. he was incontestably in love with her, and 2. she was absolutely unprecented in every way, and 3. she never really asked him any question....

Quentin (called Q) has always loved Margo from afar. so when she climbs through his window to summon him on an all-night road trip of revenge he cannot help but follow. but the next morning, Q turns up at school and Margo doesn't. she's left clues to her disappearance, like a trail of breadcrumbs for Q to follow. and everything leads to one unavoidable question: "who is the real Margo?"

as far as I read John Green's books (I've already read them all anyway, except the newest one "Turtles All the Way Down"), the conflict in this book was very small than others. but the most interesting part is Margo's personality. you can't tell who is Margo Roth Spiegelman, you can't read her. I mean, really. the story was going smoothly and I'm almost sure when you read this book, you really can't stop reading it until you finish. this book is my favorite book among John Green's.

something I love the most about John Green is his beautiful words. it really is beautiful, and you could find it just like that, just in an ordinary daily conversation. this sure makes me realize that sometimes you should just listen what other people talking about, and that is very important things to do in life.

"I thought: you listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to."

John Green also reveals the secret of leaving, because in this book Margo was just left like that. he wants us to understand that sometimes people leave not because they want to be found, but because they don't. Q describes Margo as a complicated person and has a very unpredictable minds. but, Q has forgot that Margo was just a girl. an ordinary girl and a human. and that fact, makes Margo less perfect.

"Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But, you can't do that until your life has grown roots."

I really love his simple yet so meanigful words. I really enjoyed read the journey of Q and friends trying to find Margo, but to be honest I don't really satisfy enough with the ending. as additional pages, John Green made some discussion questions according to the story. the questions which never had answers, except John Green makes a sequel from this story. when you finish reading this book, I swear you'll be haunted by the same questions that he wrote on additional pages.

overall, I really love the story because I fell in love with Margo's personality, including the road trip of revenge she did with Q. oh, and this story has so many car's scenes because maybe Q was doing some journeys (when he did with Margo and when he did to find Margo), but I love it so much!
I'd like to quoted one of Q's thoughts when he was thinking about Margo:

"Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that come afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one."

for your information, this book has been made into a movie and I swear that you'll love Margo even more! if you're too lazy to read a book, I would like to recommend you to watch the movie, although there were so many scenes had been cut and it really pissed me off. but, it's still great to watch!

last,
thank you for always reading my blog, I appreciate you so much,
happy reading!