So my friend, an unofficial nerdfighter just got a copy of Paper Town's on my recommendations and wasn't 100% if she loved more or less than Looking For Alaska, so I was wondering what everyone else thought?
Where on the ladder of Awesome does Paper Town's stand?
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Paper Towns was great, and has a really important message, but it never moved me like Alaska did.
TFiOS is definitely my favourite of John's books, but as of yet I'm uncertain as to what order they come in for me beyond that (or even if they need an order!)
I loved Katherines, it was a funky book with lots of laughs, and I really liked the message of "You can't predict love." And TiFOS was wonderful and extremely tearful, and it also had amazing metaphorical linings.
So yep... That's my opinion on said subject!
I think it's how conscious the characters are of the main symbols & metaphors in the dialogue. It just feels kind of weird for me. Like in TFiOS, Augustus is trying to construct meaning & metaphors everywhere, but those aren't the main metaphors in the book. Whereas the strings & the vessels & stuff in Paper Towns felt more like major metaphors to me & I think I found it weird that the characters were so aware of trying to pick them apart & figure them out... Like, they talk about them the way I think about metaphors when I'm trying to figure them out in my own writing, so it felt too artificial, I think?
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