Title: An Abundance of KatherinesAuthor: John Green
Published: September 21st 2006
Date Read: May 21st - 25th 2016
Read In: English
19 Katherines and counting...
When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine.
And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.
On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Jody-loving best friend riding shotgun – but no Katherines.
Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship and avenge Dumpees everywhere, and may finally win him the girl.
I really loved The Fault In Our Stars, but some of John Green's other books gave me quite a hard time. They're easy to read, but some just didn't have a real plot, at least not for me. An Abundance of Katherines was ok, the characters were alright. I don't understand much about mathematics and such, so i didn't try to make sense out of Colin's theorem. Colin was ok, his best friend was ok, all those Katherines were not such much ok.
What bothered me are all those footnotes. When you write a story, you shouldn't need footnotes on every single page to explain something. Your story should explain itself. This short book has more than 80 footnotes.
Another thing is, how can you count a 2-minute-relationship a relationship at all? I know Colin was very young when he met Katherine I, but WHAT? That's not dating. So he definitely didn't date nineteen Katherines.
And third, John Green couldn't quite make up his mind if he should call her Katherine XIX, K XIX or K-19? I don't think it would have been too hard to just choose one of those.
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