Road Trip to Nowhere

An Abundance of Katherines is a book written by John Green about a 17 year old named Colin Singleton who lives in Chicago with his parents. Colin is a prodigy who has been dumped by 19 Katherine's in all his life. His best friend is Hassan Harbish who is tired of hearing about his friend breakup every single time. Since this was the 19th time Colin has been dumped Hassan decides they will take a road trip with no destiny to help his friend get over this breakup. Colin belief there are 2 types of people in the world Dumpee's and Dumper's and that all Katherine's are Dumpers. While they traveled they notice a sign that said that the tomb of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was there and Colin always wondered about his assassination and he wondered what his body why his body will be in America so they decide to go. There they met the tour guide who's name was Lindsey Lee Wells a 17 year old paramedic in training. While Lindsey was guiding the boys to the tomb Colin fell and hit his head and while he was in the floor he came up with a very interesting theory about relationships and a formula that he believed that could determine who will be the Dumpee and the Dumper even though the two people haven't met the formula worked .The book is written in an interesting way since there are some words that are no exactly part of the vocabulary they are words invented by the characters and beside each word there is a number and at the bottom of the page you find what it means, its not always words it can be a detailed explanation of a brief thing its mention or sometimes graphs.

DUMPEE AND DUMPER BELIEF.

"Kafir, you have a very complicated problem with a very simple solution." (Green,11)

     Kafir is the Islamic statement of faith, in transliterated Arabic: there is no God but God. And this quote is from Hassan and since he is from that religion and Colin is an atheist he sometimes refers to him as Kafir. Hassan is talking about the break up and how it is complicated but that the solution can be so simple as just getting K19 (Katherine 19) out of his mind.

"But still, the thought lurked out there, just beyond the reach of his headlights: he'd been dumped. By a girl named Katherine. For the nineteenth time"(Green,15)

     I think the quote want's to make it clear that Colin is suffering because it's the 19th time it happens  and the fact that John Green is saying this exact same thing but in different words like 4 times it means it is something we have to remember.

     So far the book is good, its still giving back story and introducing the characters more so I think thats why right now it doesn't give major plots. I think it is really interesting that this book is not written by the perspective of the main character which is odd since all of John Green's books that i have read so far are telling the story from the view of the main character. The perspective doesn't bother me but still it feels weird since i am used to other type of writing but it is still clear that it is a John Green book because of the way he tells the story in such a fascinating way that makes you feel part of the story. I am excited to see what happens next i personally think that since Colin got dumped   19 times by Katherine's the book will have another love interest for Colin but I'm not sure if her name will be Katherine or something else maybe Lindsey..... if she becomes her love interest i would be happy because so far she seems a good person and id like to see them together.