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Hassan, Colin's best friend, is basically the opposite of Colin. However, at times he can be irritating with his over attachments to those he likes/loves.

Basically, Colin is a very intricate person and I think if you read it, you'll like him. I found the anagrams especially interesting, and they made me want to learn to anagram as well as Colin does.

Colin also exceeds in making anagrams out of words (if you're unfamiliar with anagrams, they're words made from the letters of other words. His main goal in life is to matter, and I feel like a lot of people can relate to that. Reading from his point of view is especially entertaining, and I think he's a pretty relatable character. Colin, of course, is very interesting himself. I think the characters are pretty typical. Despite my disliking for math, I didn't mind it in the book. It's Colin's Dumper/Dumpee Theory, and in case you are a math wiz or just find math interesting, it's entirely explained in the back of the book. There is also a bit of complex math in this book, but thankfully you don't have to fully understand it to understand the story. I think these footnotes are helpful when reading and also quite fun. Some are facts that Colin knows that relate to the scenes, some are translations (because Colin speaks eleven different languages), and others are just there for other purposes. As you may have read, AAoK has many footnotes. 1 If you read that last sentence and then scrolled to the bottom of this page to read the footnote, then thank you for humoring me (making footnotes is fun). If you by chance are unfamiliar with footnotes, they're basically when the writer puts a number at the end of a sentence/phrase/word and then they duplicate that number at the bottom of the page with further notes and/or explanations. Starting on the positive side, let's talk about the novel's use of footnotes. Anyways, what I'm trying to say is that although AAoK is his "lesser" novel, it's still amazing. I know a lot of people have mixed/negative feelings about John Green, though, so that's just my opinion. In my opinion, I don't think John Green necessarily has a "worst" book, because personally I love them all.

Throughout the story, Colin tries to create a theory and mathematical equation that can accurately depict-and even predict-romantic relationships, hoping to win back the heart of his most recent Katherine.įirst of all, I'd like to start out by stating that this is considered John Green's worst/lesser story. They end up finding and staying in a small town miles and miles from home, and there they meet quite a few interesting people. So his one and only friend, Hassan, convinces Colin to go on a road trip. Now, Katherine XIX (the nineteenth) has broken up with Colin and he is heartbroken. He was not a popular person, but he did happen to make one friend along the way. He has spent his past eighteen years dating Katherines, anagramming words and phrases, and memorizing many, many facts. I mean, he's eighteen now) who has dated a total of nineteen different girls named Katherine (technically eighteen, but that's a minor detail and the title says nineteen so we'll go with nineteen). *cough* some of John Green's other books.Ĭolin Singleton is a child prodigy (well, formerly. Which doesn't actually make sense because the book is not related to school, but hey, whatever, right? Besides, I really liked it the first time I read it, and I knew rereading it wouldn't cause me emotional pain like. So I figured, why not reread An Abundance of Katherines? Maybe I've started a back to school tradition by rereading this book every year. After finishing The Third Twin, I decided to do a reread because I didn't have any new books to read at the moment. I had first read AAoK (An Abundance of Katherines) last year when school first started.