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    An Abundance of Katherines

    Written by John Green

    Narrated by Jeff Woodman

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    From the #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars

    Michael L. Printz Honor Book

    Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist

    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 Judy-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, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 21, 2006
    ISBN9781423324546
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    An Abundance of Katherines
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    John Green

    John Green attended a boarding school in Alabama not entirely unlike ALASKA’s Culver Creek. After graduating from college in 2000, he moved to Chicago, where is is a writer, editor and reviewer, as well as a regular contributor to public radio. LOOKING FOR ALASKA is his first novel.

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    • 3/5
      Liked it in the end but was slow to get to anything exciting
    • 5/5
      Colin was a child prodigy until this last birthday. Now, he’s just a kid who knows a lot of trivia. He’s also a sucker for girls named Katherine, and he’s just been dumped by Katherine number 19. The only answer is a road trip with his best friend, a love theorem, and a small town in the middle of nowhere. Love Green's snarky humor, also great characters!
    • 4/5
      I admit I got very excited when I opened this book at the library and saw graphs on several pages. The math was pretty elementary, but it doesn't matter anyway because you don't have to be good at math to enjoy this book; the author claims he's not good at math either and seems to avoid going into much detail at all throughout the book so as to not scare away readers. There is an appendix for readers who want to really understand the math, but it really adds nothing for people who already know math well; it is basic pre-calculus/algebra. I was impressed that the math sections were written by a University of Chicago math professor.

      Most of this story takes place in the fictional Gutshot, TN about two hours outside of Memphis (Gutshot is near the nonfictional town of Milan, TN). Colin's knowing and dating 19! Katherines aside, this story is still pretty unbelievable. Two teenagers, the Jewish atheist Colin and the semi-practicing Muslim Hassan, take a road trip from Chicago, end up at a random place along I-40 and then are offered a well-paying job and housing with a lady (Hollis, whom I loved) during a random encounter at a general store. The job and housing offer is the unbelievable part. But the unbelievability doesn't take away from the story.

      I really identified with Colin, how he loved languages and was always creating anagrams (not my thing, but I do love other word puzzles like crosswords). He was never part of the "cool kid" crowd. As a washed-up child prodigy, he struggled with wanting to actually create something meaningful instead of just memorizing and learning things. And that is one of the major conflicts of my life. It can be hard just feeling like a human computer or information sponge sometimes.

      You learn so many interesting tidbits throughout the book especially through the author's footnotes which is another thing in addition to the graphs of relationship happiness vs. time that makes this book unique. I don't know if I've ever seen footnotes in fiction by the original author. The footnotes elaborate on either the characters, past events in the characters' lives, translations of some of the foreign language expressions used in the book, and real-world information (such as medical conditions, religious customs, and serial killers - eek).

      It was interesting that this book took place in all three places I've lived in my life: Chicago (I've only lived in the suburbs though), Memphis, and rural Tennessee.

      The rural Tennessee depiction was pretty true to life. And Lindsey Lee Wells could totally be someone straight out of Tennessee. The only restaurant in the town I used to live in was called Wells Kitchen. The Wells family also owned a gas station/general store just up the road in the same town. However, I have to list a few things the author got wrong, just for fun.

      1. Lindsey calls the elderly people she is close with by their first names. I can't see this ever happening in traditional rural Tennessee, no matter how close you are to a person. It's always Miss/Mr. [insert first name here]. My in-laws still call their in-laws by Mr./Miss [insert first name here].

      2. Hollis mentions on the phone that they pay taxes for garbage collection. No way! Even just thirty miles outside of Memphis, you have to hire a garbage collection service and pay a regular bill for it, or you have to pay for a landfill pass and haul your own garbage.

      3. I'm being really nitpicky here - If you travel from Milan, TN to the zip code 37501, you will not see the Memphis skyline unless you are taking a major detour. You only see the skyline if you are coming into Memphis from across the river in Arkansas or driving up Riverside Drive. If you are coming in from the east, as Colin, Lindsey, and Hassan were, you would have to drive all the way across the entire city to within a mile or so of downtown to even begin seeing any somewhat large buildings, and from that viewpoint, it can hardly be called a skyline.

      Definitely a fun and easy read. Hassan got annoying, but I really liked Colin, Lindsey, and Hollis, so it was well worth reading about their small town adventures.
    • 3/5
      hen 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 Judy–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, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.
    • 4/5
      This one is a fun one. It's pretty short and easy to read. I heard a lot about the author (John Green) from various people I followed on LJ a while back, hence getting this book for my birthday. It's so short that I didn't get very attached to any of it, really, but I devoured it anyway. The maths parts, when Colin is trying to design the Theorem, hurt my head, so I pretty much ignored those, but it didn't spoil anything. I love the tone of the novel, and the friendship between Hassan and Colin feels natural and real.

      No surprises, here, but plenty of fun.
    • 3/5
      This was an ok telling of a road trip with two teen boys.: Colin and Hassan. Colin is a super smarty pants who loves anagrams and girls named Katherine. 19 of his previous girlfriends all shared that name. Hassan is his best friend/sidekick. Thank goodness for Hasan because he livens up the dialogue. After a brief time on the road, they end up in Tenessee in the small town of Gutshot and become part of an interesting and slowly dying manufacturing community.

      Overall, Green did a nice job of understanding the teenage mind. There were some laugh out loud moments but nothing too terribly different from other coming of age books. The characters living in the town of Gutshot were much more interesting than Colin and helped carry the book along.
    • 4/5
      Life from the point of view of a prodigy with bad luck in personal relations. Quirky, funny, and lots of thoughtful insights into who we are in this world.
      I am a huge fan of John Green and had missed reading this - great on audio.
    • 3/5
      I liked this one, with reservations. It's funny, it's warm, it's intelligent, it's full of references to authors and scientists... and somehow, there's just a little too much archness throughout for it to be grand. A textile mill that only makes tampon strings? C'mon. I loved the footnotes, thought, and the long explanation of the inner workings of the Theorem in the appendix.
    • 2/5
      This book feels like it was written by choosing a dozen or so random things from a hat and attempting to pull them together into story. I kept picturing the main characters as the guys from the Sonic commercial.
    • 5/5
      I click over to this edition because this is one amazing cover but do not be fooled, the book is even better. Funnier but no less soulful than Looking for Alaska. Clever John Green scored another hit
    • 4/5
      My first John Green. I enjoyed it quite a bit. It’s definitely a book about teenage boys. [Oct. 2010]
    • 5/5
      Child prodigy Colin Singleton has just endured his nineteenth break-up with his nineteenth girlfriends named Katherine. His heart is broken and instead of pursuing intellectual stimulation the summer before college, his friend Hassan convinces him to embark on a roadtrip. The trip leads them to a small town in Tennessee, the perfect place to find friendship, a job and understanding of life through The Theorum of Underlying Katherine Predictablility.

      I loved An Abundance of Katherines, for the footnotes alone. It was brilliantly written and is incredibly smart on its delivery. It was also nice to have an upbeat ending from John Green ( :) ).

    • 3/5
      I went into this with really high expectations - people RAVE about John Green, and his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars, so I was really excited when I saw this available for download from my library. Maybe I should have just skipped all the novels except for The Fault in Our Stars, because I was a bit underwhelmed reading An Abundance of Katherines. It ended a bit abruptly and didn't really finish the story - I know that's how life is, but nothing really was explained and it felt like I tried to invest in these characters with no payoff at the end. Hmm. I'll try and give TFiOS a chance, because everyone else seems to agree that that one is amazing and this one is crap, but we shall see. On another note, John Green is absolutely the MOST adorable and even if his books are a bit young for me, I will flail for him and his nerdy ways any day of the week.
    • 4/5
      Another terrific novel by John Green. I read and loved Looking for Alaska several years ago.
    • 4/5
      Lighter than Looking for Alaska but still thoughtful, An Abundance of Katherines shows that John Green was not a one-hit wonder. Colin has just been dumped by Katherine XIX - that being the nineteenth girl named Katherine that he has dated and been dumped by - and he is depressed. He's a former child prodigy but not yet a genius and he doesn't know exactly how to make the transition despite the fact that with high school over time is running out. To knock the non-genius out of his slump, his best friend Hassan coerces Colin into a roadtrip and soon the boys are in Gutshot, TN - unlikely home of the grave of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Colin and Hassan enjoy a summer of misadventures as they learn to navigate the rocky time between high school and adulthood with Colin always working on his Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability. Green peppers the text with wry footnotes, graphs and equations without bogging down the story. Many accelerated students will find Colin and his friends easy to empathize with as they struggle to find their places in the world.
    • 4/5
      A book which covers useless trivia, interconnectedness, storytelling and the significance of oral history. Right up my street. A coming-of-age story with a bit of mathematics, some philosophy, a lot of humour and a sweet little love story. It was light relief after reading the J.K. Rowling book and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
    • 5/5
      You know what? I like John Green. I enjoy his writing, I like that his books do have a very a natural feel to them. Maybe it’s because I happened to start with this book than the perennial Looking for Alaska, but An Abundance of Katherines is a great book to get started with his works.

      The thing that I like about John Green’s books is that while most of his plots tread very familiar ground—death of a friend, growing up and moving on—he does make it feel like a unique experience to that specific set of characters. While it’s one thing to apply this paint to slightly nerdy outcast Southern teenagers, Colin is a different beast. You’ve got a kid who’s been told that he’s special for his whole life, and the moment that slips away from him, he’s stuck in a rut. The fact that being reassured that “Oh, no, you’re special” kind of turns him into a needy boyfriend isn’t brushed away, it’s actually brought up as a massive character flaw. And Colin’s journey is really the strength of this.

      It’s a relatable book. There’s the anxiety of college and leaving everything that made Colin ‘Colin’ behind, and that he’s not really much of anything anymore. Which I can see—while I wanted to reinvent myself in college, there was still this nervousness of leaving everything I knew behind. There’s this idea of staying stagnant that fixates in both Colin and Lindsey—Lindsey wanting never to really leave her hometown and change from a different person. And what I like at the end is that we see the seeds being sown to accomplish the need for change, but we still never know where they’ll exactly end up. On the way other end of the room, there’s Hassan. Oh, Hassan, you and your crazy, Hardee’s/Judge Judy-loving, fatty self. It’s a running thing in Green’s books, that I tend to gravitate toward the designated best friends, but they’re just so well-done, I can’t help myself. And everything that comes out of Hassan’s mouth is comedy gold.

      In comparison to the other stuff he’s written, this is one of the books that I recommend starting with when getting into John Green. Like I said, it’s a very relatable book, but doesn’t hold the emotional gut punch of Alaska or The Fault in Our Stars, and it’s funny. There’s probably a lot more people who can look at Colin and go, “Oh, hey, I’ve been there. Kind of.” If there is anything that I don’t like about it, it’s the Theorem, but only because ohgod hard math my brain send help. (It’s interesting, and the math behind it is interesting, but ow my brain.)
    • 2/5
      I will try another one, but I was underwhelmed. Don't quite understand all the fuss about Green from this, the only book of his I have read.
    • 4/5
      Colin has been dumped. A lot. Nineteen times, in fact, all by girls named Katherine. Colin’s a smart guy, though, and he’s sure there’s a reason. A reason that can be expressed mathematically. His best friend, concerned for Colin’s mental health, takes him on a road trip to distract him from the heartbreak—but can Colin stop working on his Theorem long enough to appreciate love, friendship, and a statue of a dead archduke?

      Brings together teen break-up quasi-comedy with math, and is a really fun, quick read. Less math-y than I'd expected from the cover. Not sure I buy the premise, but since when has that stopped me from enjoying a good story with smart, entertaining characters?
    • 5/5
      Entertaining, funny, clever. This one was just so enjoyable to me--probably because of the humor and Gutshot and the ridiculous yet not especially remarkable things that happen. Also there are the characters and their relationships--what fabulous characters. I liked Colin--his weird nerdiness, his social weaknesses, and while I might not have liked his self-centeredness per say, it was so human, and it was weaknesses like that that added depth to the story. There were a number of themes and issues that are relevant to teens and handled well (like identity, mattering, friendship, etc). The 19 Katherines was a real stretch, especially for a socially awkward prodigy with a Jew fro, and the epiphany was a bit obvious, but I could let it all slide; I think Green makes it work somehow.
    • 4/5
      Another slam dunk for John Green, who managed to hit the geeky nail on the head, with this story of child prodigy vs genius, finding fame vs finding self, roadtrips, love, and a little town called Gutshot.If I could anagram that, I hope it would come out to "a really great book."Plot summaries available elsewhere on line.For the record, I've never dated any two people who have had the same name (unless you count a Jonathan and a John. Neither made the final cut, though. )
    • 3/5
      I like John Green’s characters. They are generally original in their uniqueness and are interesting to read about because they are funny characters. His characters are his strong points. I don’t read life stories very often for a reason. I just don’t like them as much as other books. So I read them occasionally. This was a life story. It was interesting, it was okay, but I didn’t get anything out of it. It was one of those, ‘I wouldn’t cry if I had to give it back within the hour.’ So I liked Collin. I liked the dialogue. A lot of the reviews I’ve looked at have stated that this is not Green’s best book. Out of the three or four of his that I have read so far, I agree. An interesting read and recommended if you are looking to read all of Green’s books, but not otherwise. I am looking forward to getting to some of Green’s other books however.
    • 3/5
      I've been on a bit of a John Green binge since reading Paper Towns a few weeks ago. This has got all the John Green hallmarks - two pretty nerdy teenage boys whose friendship is tested as they go through a coming of age drama - but somehow it doesn't fit together quite as well as I'd hoped.Colin is a child prodigy, desperately trying to live up to his own hype and become a genius. He's actually quite annoyingly self-obsessed. He's been dumped 19 times, all by girls called Katherine (which rather stretched my willing suspension of disbelief), and now wants to combine his genius potential with his Katherine obsession and create a mathematical equation to predict the course of romantic relationships. Only, he's actually rather better at anagrams than maths.Hassan, Colin's fat best friend, is kind of classic John Green stock sidekick character. Except that this time he's not gay, but Arab. (I can't get used to how Americans describe people as Arabs! Is is 'an Arab'? 'Arabic'?). Their adventures take them on a road trip to a hick town called Gunshot, where they meet girls who aren't half as hick as they expect, and get employed improbably easily to do an impossibly cushy job, all leading them to (not altogether unpredictable) revelations about life, love and themselves.I'm not quite sure why it doesn't come together as it ought. I think there's probably just too many improbable events for me to believe it. If Paper Towns and Will Grayson were just the right amount of improbable, I think this just tips over the edge into absurdity. Perhaps Colin is just too annoying (Hassan's actually pretty awesome), or perhaps his self-absorption just reminds myself of myself or something. (Or, perhaps I was just annoyed that I thought I still had about 20 pages to go when the book finished, and I had 20 pages of promotion for The Fault in our Stars, which promises to be awesome, but not awesome enough to spoil the ending of other books in its search for self-promotion.)So, good John Green fodder, but I wouldn't recommend this as his best work, or to anyone who didn't already love him.
    • 2/5
      Wow this book really lost steam at the end. The story seemed very familiar to me by the fact that is uses the same formula as "Will Grayson". The story seemed promising, but literally just stopped breathing at the end. The characters just kind of did exactly what you'd expect. Things got contrived and thin and then the writing disintegrated into long diatribes about, literally, nothing. When many pages were spent re-counting the main character's experiences with his lineage of "Katherines", it was almost painful to power through. I was very disappointed in this one. Unless you MUST READ all of John Green's titles, this one can be skipped.
    • 5/5
      "The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath. Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down." So begins John Green's second book in which Colin and his friend Hassan go on a road trip to help Colin get over being dumped by Katherine XIX. Along the way, Colin shares his endless store of random facts, meets a girl who is not named Katherine, and learns a lot about himself in a little town called Gutshot, Tennessee. Hassan is an admirable sidekick, helping Colin figure out when he's being "not interesting" and growing a bit himself. Although Green has grown as an author since this book ([The Fault in Our Stars] is his most recent and my favorite), this is classic John Green, with humor, snappy dialogue, and multi-layered characters. Green clearly cares about his characters, and he makes his readers care as well.
    • 4/5
      I have found that I really enjoy John Green's books. His characters are quirky and fun, but usually just normal teenagers struggling with various issues. An Abundance of Katherines fits into his usual category, but I think I expected too much from this book. I loved the premise, and I liked the book, but I felt like he could have taken it in a different direction at times. Colin Singleton, a recent high school graduate, embarks on a road trip with his best friend Hassan, in order to get over his latest breakup with Katherine XIX. Yes, that's right, Colin only dates girls named Katherine....K A T H E R I N E, not Catherine or any other variation. He also has been dumped by all nineteen of his former Katherines. Collin was a child prodigy who wants more than anything to reach his potential and become a genius. He fears that he won't matter and that his abilities in languages, codes, and anagrams will be the only thing that he will ever be good at. Hassan has been out of high school for a year, but has yet to do anything with his life. He has taken off a year....or two, or more from going to college. Their road trip leads them to a small town in Tennesee called Gutshot, where the two boys make friends, get a job, and learn that there is more to life than they originally thought
    • 4/5
      Colin is a child prodigy, or at least a very smart kid with a lot of potential. He’s brilliant with language, but struggles with simple social skills. He’s a misanthrope, never convinced he’s truly happy or loved and never quite able to fit in and make friends. He has dated 19 girls in his short life, all named Katherine, all of which dumped him. The first was in third-grade and the last dumped him on the day they both graduated from high school. In an effort to knock himself out of his dumpee-induced depression Colin’s best friend Hassan decides to take him on an impromptu road trip from Chicago down to Tennessee. Hassan reminded me a lot of Tiny Cooper, from Green’s co-authored book Will Grayson, Will Grayson. He’s bigger than life, a hilarious and good friend to have. The two besties have a great repartee and the odd balls they meet along the way are great small town characters.Katherines is the most gimmicky of Green’s books, relying heavily on a combination of footnotes, anagrams, mathematical equations and graphs as part of the story. These elements were distracting most of the time and I think the book might have been better served if he’d only used one of two of them. It’s also packed with random trivia, which I enjoyed. This is the last of Green’s novels that I hadn’t read. It’s not my favorite, but I still love his conversational, intelligent writing style. BOTTOM LINE: My least favorite of Green’s novels, but still really enjoyable. It was a bit too heavy on the gimmicks for my tastes, but the characters themselves still rang true. It’s a quick fun read, but don’t miss his other work! I’ll definitely be reading whatever he writes because in my opinion each of his books has been a step up from the last.  
    • 3/5
      Mrs. Beamer's Review:Meh...that about sums up my feelings on this book. And that makes me sad :( I adore John Green. Adore him. But this book...not so much. First, it took me a long time (relatively speaking) to read it. I just wasn't into it. Second, I found the constant footnotes distracting...and honestly, stopped reading them about halfway through the book. Also, the anagrams and theorem work kind of bored me. BUT...Green's writing is witty (as always), the book is a huge hit in my high school library and I highly recommend it for teen boys.My Favorite Quotes (from this book): "Colin read and reread his yearbook...and considered how twenty-five of his classmates, some of whom he'd been attending school with for twelve years, could possibly have wanted to 'know him better.' As if they hadn't had a chance.""We fatties have a bond, dude...we've got all kinds of sh*t you don't know about. Handshakes, special fat people dances - we got these fugging lairs in the center of the earth, and we go down there in the middle of the night when all the skinny kids are sleeping and eat cake and friend chicken..."Mrs. Beamer’s advisory rating: 0-5 (0=none, 5=lots) click here for more infoLanguage: 2Violence: 0Sexual Content: 1Drugs/Alcohol: 0Potential Controversial Topics: none
    • 5/5
      An Abundance of Katherines by John Green was a book that I thoroughly enjoyed. One of the best elements, in my opinion, were the subscripts. I hadn't seen subscripts in a fiction piece since reading books in elementary. My favorite character was Hassan, due to his personality and love of food. He was a hilarious character that I loved. Another aspect of this novel that I like were the graphs that were pictured throughout this book. It was funny when I would read this book in class and a friend would look over and say, "Even the books you read have math in them?". It was great. This was the third John Green book that I read, and I enjoyed it just as much as TFiOS or Alaska. I recommend this to anyone that likes John Green style novels.
    • 5/5
      Colin Singleton has a thing for girls named Katherine...in fact, 19 different girls named Katherine. All of whom have dumped him. A 17 year old "former child prodigy" (being that he's out of high school, Colin insists he can't be considered a prodigy any longer), Colin attempts to repair the damage from the latest Katherine by taking a road trip to the south with his friend Hassan. The two end up in Tennessee and meet the captivating Lindsey Lee Wells and her mother, who hires the young men to record the oral history of the towns people. While living in a Pepto Bismol pink house and noshing on burgers at the local Hardees, Colin learns about the interesting backgrounds of the people of Gutshot, TN, while finding time to perfect his Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability--his mathematical formula which will predict when a person in a relationship will dump another. Green's novel tells an engaging coming-of-age story which surely be appreciated by the 12 and up set,