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  • Why is my version so different from this? It's making me sad.

  • Why did he skip parts? I was reading along, and there were a bunch of parts that he skipped.

  • I don't think I've ever been more desperate to read a book it all my life. I shall be ordering this as soon as I can <3

  • So like, I was reading "Paper Towns" when suddenly, "'Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer, but unfortunately he has never cried.'"

  • I liked the original so much better! i wonder if his editor did this or he kept tempering with it. This one gave too many explanations and diluted the essence of the characters. Either way, a really great book!

  • Okay that's it. I am buying your books. Amazon here I come. I don't need money just those words!

  • I love John's reading voice so much. It's so good. XP

  • margo kinda looks like john. is that weird?

  • @leighia1 Yeah, kind of :O

  • @TheCrayonAndTheTeddy i'm serious. look at individual features. its so cool.

  • Paper Towns is my all time favorite book. Margo embraces all the ideas that I wish I could. <3 Well done, very well done :3 dftba :D

  • I wish I had a mini John to hear his voice reading to me every night before going to sleep :)

  • @Stryxz33 Your face is as a book, where men may read strange matters.

  • @Stryxz33 Why are you such a Non-Nerdfighter? And please, don't start sentences with a conjunction!

  • i got paper towns for christmas and decided to read it before the fault in our stars shipped. i read paper towns in 13 days because i couldn't stop reading and now i will have the fault in our stars to entertain my thoughts as i try to imagine the characters more complexly.

  • damn. when the video ended i had to shake myself back out of my mind where i could see the bedroom scene played out in my mind so vividly.i don't suppose you recorded an audio book? and if you did i don't suppose it would be safe for me to listen to while driving.DFTBA

  • @TheRakel749 there is an audio book but i don't think its read by john

  • This is probably my favourite book of all time. And that's saying something because I have about ten billion NEARLY favourite books of all time that didn't make the cut.

  • How should I get my library to get even one John Green book? The shelves are full of these "OMG-there-is-the-most-popular­-guy-and-he-likes-me-but-I-don­'t-get-it-and-I'm-totally-an-i­diot-and-gorgeous" books yet there are barely any Harry Potter books, no John Green, no Lord of the Rings and basically just no good books. Can you, fellow nerdfighters, please help? Should I write a letter? Should I make a complaint/request?

    (I had no idea where else to ask awesome people to help.. :/)

  • This is not spam!

    I realise a spambot would say this is not spam...

    But still!

    I wrote a thing on Margo, check it out? You need to have read paper towns.. DFTBA

    le-nerd-girl (dot) tumblr (dot) com/post/15397767703/margo-rot­h-spiegelman

  • My version's Slightly different. in the Bit where They First discover the Dead man, there's An extra Paragraph.

    is this Because i have The british version Or what?

  • I almost can't believe this, but listening to this book makes it 10 times more brilliant. And that is saying something.

  • damn you jonh, now ill have to get out of my bed, and buy paper town, i hope youre happy now!

  • I wanted him to keep on going and read to me :/

  • woah i just noticed that his glasses changed! But i liked those glasses so much... :/

    DFTBA<3

  • Buying this book Wednesday. Just bought and finished An Abundance of Katharine's and Looking for Alaska last week (I've never been much of a reader but the upcoming release of TFIOS gave me this weird rush to read everything else John has published. Also, I realized I'm going to be signing up for a Writing for Publication course in the fall and have read shockingly few novels not about wizards, vampires, or the religious coverups).

  • i read this book in one day. i started in McDonalds

  • I officially need to buy this book.

  • Just found out that my school's library has this book. AWESOME!!!

  • Gah. I wasn't thrilled with Paper Towns when I read it but now listening to it, I realize how blisteringly brilliant it is.

  • I wish I had brought my John Green books with me on my vacation, because I still need to read them, and I have nothing to do :(

  • John, I am officially declaring you my ultimate distracter from NaNoWriMo right now. I must read this book.

  • @Music4ever248

    You know where he says "I'd be crazy!"? In the book, it says "Crazier than a shithouse rat". He was censoring it.

    There are some really adult themes in there. They're funny, but it's called a young adult novel for a reason.

  • @DyingPickle

    I've read it about eight times. XD

    What are they?

  • Id like to read this when I'm older. Language not too complicated but seems a bit disturbing. Does anyone know if it really is for a 13 year old naive girl? I like comedy and kung fu panda mostly....

  • @Music4ever248 I read it when I was 13. Well, like 13 and 11 months but same thing. If you're not too immature, it should be fine. But that might just be me. It has some really powerful themes and a few inappropriate things for people of a certain age. But it should be fine.

  • @Music4ever248 I would probably wait based on what you said, but definitely read it sometime. :)

  • Anyone else notice how he said "crazy" where the text actually reads "crazier than a shithouse rat"?

  • RUSHES TO AMAZON

  • I found this book on clearance, and feel as though i have stolen from john... this saddens me..

  • I still haven't read Paper Towns, ashamed. Tomorrow: to the bookstore!!

  • Is it bad while reading it I saw John as Quentin

  • I finished Paper Towns like 2 weeks ago, yet this makes me want to reread it.

  • Best Wishes!

  • John needs to make the whole "books on tape" thing happen.

    I already read his books with his voice in my head, so listening to him actually read his books just seems like the natural progression.

  • *Feeling special because you just finished reading it* ^_^

  • it's funny how the prologue didn't change in large obvious ways, but the changes are noticeable nonetheless. i really need this book, but i kind of wish that i hadn't heard the previous revision of the prologue because... with some descriptions and phrasing... i kind of liked it better ;=/

  • I love John Green's voice when he's reading. It relaxes me; I've taken to listening to this video if I need relaxing, and I'll just close my eyes, lean my head on the table, and listen.

  • I'm a pre-service English teacher, and as I create a unit based on the concept "Imagining People Complexly" (with Paper Towns as the central text, of course), I'm realizing how awesome it will be for my students to hear the prologue read aloud by the author himself. Thanks for doing what you do and being as awesome as you are, John. It's seriously inspiring.

  • i read this book for english at school... best reading assignment ever!!!! i was actually excited to read! lol thank you, john!

  • thank us for being awesome??? thank YOU for being awesome!!!! :D

  • Recently started reading this book. Omfg it's so freakin amazing. I'm not even half way through with it yet.

  • i just bought paper toowns, and the first paragraph in the prologue is amazing!

  • I just grabbed my copy of Paper Towns and read along with John. I could do this with the whole book and it would be amazing. Two words, John: audio books.

  • love this book :)

  • I'ma go buy this today. I'll probably be finished by tomorrow.

  • Is the sad Margo cover matte?

  • Just finished reading it, but was quite pissed to find that over 20 pgs were torn from the copy of the book I borrowed from the library

  • I just finished Paper Towns! So amazing!

  • 0:30 my new pick up line

  • I think the best song for this book would be We Might As Well Be Strangers by Keane.

  • I was reading my copy along with the video ;) Until he skipped ahead..

  • This book is good. At first I didn't like it, but I'm start it to like it more and more. I actually think I'm gonna go get my kindle right now...

  • Nerdfighters, we HAVE to build the ringolator! It must be done!

  • When I read John Green's books...I hear his voice reading them in my head.

  • @meganxx23 Me too. I also visualize jump cuts between the sentences.

  • I am soooo going to go buy this book tomorrow...

  • I finished this book today, and at the very end, after the line "I can see her almost perfectly in this cracked darkness," someone had written in pen "...As I see Carli. And with that, I closed the book, cried for my flaws, and planned my apology." And I just thought you might enjoy hearing that your book saved someone's relationship.

  • Every time I portray the main characters in John Green's books they look a lot like John Green...

  • Got to love nerdfighters! i took Looking for Alaska out of my local library and a note fell out of the back saying

    "Go you for being a nerdfighter! Enjoy John Green, check out the vlogbrothers on youtube. DFTBA! x"

    :D

  • Does Dr. Jefferson Jefferson have anything to do woth Dr.  Phillips? And do the streets in Jefferson Park have anything to do with Winter park or Audobon Park called Chelsea?

  • @MsHarryFreakinPotter and @219kenzie i also got a note today when i finished this masterpiece but there was no name just 'a fellow Nerdfighter' at first i was scared but after reading the comments i seem to be not alone in this predicament.

  • John is so inspiring. He makes me want to seriously pursue writing.

  • I love John Green storytime!

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  • I just finished paper towns =D Loved ever second of it! Need to read looking for alaska, I still haven't read that o.0

  • I cannot wait to buy this book! I'll need to order it at my little town bookshop! :] Darn it...

  • going to beg my parents for this book tomorrow :)

  • i bought this book and read it in a DAY. half of it on the train, laughing rather loudly to myself and not caring at all that other people were staring. i bet they just wanted a look at the cover to get the book for themselves x)

  • I must find a way to get hold of this book. I must.

  • Oh god, that made me cry!

  • I've been watching your vlogs for a little over a month and were aware you were an author but never checked out your work. this convinced me

  • This was the most amazing book I've ever read!

    I started it at 9 one night and didn't put it down untill I finished it at 3 the next morning.

    The roadtrip was the most hilarious thing I've ever read. I can't wait for his new book to come out!!

  • Paper Towns was like pee. I finished it one day. I couldn't stop once I started.

  • Just finished reading this book of awesomeness .... it's .... beautiful ...

  • In paper towns

    I think like chap 8 or 9

    It says something along the lines of "I tried to flatten my puff"

    Is Q a young John!?

    O.o

  • I have the book and have read it several times in the past however long it has been out, but sometimes I still come back to listen to John read the prologue.

  • Theres something about writers reading their own words that gives those words the most beautiful rhythm. It's as natural as hearing the thoughts in your own head. SO freaking good John, I'm going to buy this after I'm done reading my current book. :)

  • best part of the book

  • I just finished paper towns, and it was amazing! Very good! :D Possibly one of my favourites books :)

  • I absolutely Love this book! I can relate so well to It, and your Books feel like its something that Could actually happen to anyone! You capture so well the thoughts and emotions That course through the mind of a teenager! You are my Favorite author! and your stories are always leading to something I Would expect but turns out completely different, yet I Somehow feel as if it Was unavoidable, just like Real life! Never stop writing, and i will never stop Being a nerdfighter! DFTBA!

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  • Did anyone else bust out their copy and read along with John?

    Because I did. And it was awesome.

  • @xx0keiite0xx I did as well.

    :)

  • I read paper towns and made my friend read it. She loved it. Now we great each other and with something involving black Santas

  • Poor Margo.

  • You should make an audiobook.

  • @jaimelespoptarts He did. If you go back a few videos he has one about him recording the paper towns audiobook.

  • I just got the book. But i have a diffrent cover it has a map with a pinpoint in it. But it says John Green Paper Towns.

  • @makaylamoo2222 That's the paperback version I do believe, I was lucky enough to get a hardcover with yellow Margo :) I kinda want the paperback version too though.

  • @makaylamoo2222 i have that version too.

  • Central Florida RULES!!!!!

  • I LOVE this book! But it sounds even better when he reads it!!

  • I, TOTALLY, thought she was going to kiss him. xD

  • While watching this, I was thinking repeatedly "Margo is staring right at me. Weird."

  • i'll got my copy of the book from amazon BUT wait , Margo is 9 years old !? in the cover she looks like a teen girl ( 15 - 18 years old )

  • @ABDULRHMAN thats just the prologue...

  • @ABDULRHMAN

    lol....

  • John you need to do an audio book reading of this PLZ! If you did youd be my favorite green brother, yha you heard me youd be my fave! PLZ!!!

  • sweet bought what I belive is the last copy of Paper Towns in Oslo, Norway!

  • oh and he left out the s*ithouse rat thing........ =(

  • such an awesome book.....<3

  • I wish I were more like Margo Roth Spiegelman.

  • @ciwwaf2012 You mean more like what you think Margo Roth Spiegelman was like.

  • @ciwwaf2012 i definitely know what you mean, shes not afraid to be alone, or lonely, shes amazing

  • I think john should do the ebook of this.. It's not the same when i read it myself :(

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  • ever since before i read the book.. i could never pronounce margo's full name sine 1:46

  • Whats awsome is that the first timei read this book, in my head, this exactly how i heard it.

  • John, You should have voiced the audio for this. But none the less, it is an amazing book!

  • Agloe actually shows up on bing maps, if anyone would like to check that out

  • So, I just bought Paper Towns, and as I started reading it, this note fell out, writen on the back of an envelope:

    You became a Nerdfighter!

    Congratulations!

    Visit the Vlogbrothers to find out more. Best Wishes!

    DFTBA!!!!!

    -Sammy

    So I did. And now I'm hooked. And I'm a Nerdfighter.

    Thank you, Sammy!

  • @MsHarryFreakinPotter I got a similar note from an anonymous Nerdfighter in An Abundance of Katherines! Nerdfighters are just being way too awesome these days ;D

  • @MsHarryFreakinPotter

    The same sort of thing happened to me except for the fact that the note was in the second volume of Scott Pilgrim :L I got onto John's books that way :3

  • @MsHarryFreakinPotter

    A similar thing happened to me! I was buying Paper Towns at the bookstore when I noticed a note in it that said, "Hello Fellow Nerdfighters!! I bought this journal to write messages for fellow nerdfighters, not even realizing that the company name is GREENROOM!!! DFTBA, Nerdfighters! <3" I was SO EXCITED to find this note, And cant wait to leave some notes for unexpecting (future?) nerdfighters myself!

  • So, I just realized that there's Strawberry Hill (like from Looking for Alaska) in the intro

  • The execution of the words was very differently in my head to how you read it.

  • My least favorite line from the entire book is, "I could have seen it rain frogs."

    For some reason, that sentence just seems so awkward to me.

  • I haven't read fiction since I started university, academic reading has kinda spoilt books for me....not because they are badly written or boring, but because I didn't choose to read them........

    I just bought this book.

  • I have the audiobook of this (and all his books) and the guy that reads this one does sound quite a bit like him to me, maybe it's just because I know John's voice so well from vlogbrothers or maybe they actually have similar voices.

  • I have the audiobook of this (and all his books) and the guy that reads this one does sound quite a bit like him to me, maybe it's just because I know John's voice so well from vlogbrothers or maybe they actually have similar voices.

  • John, you should be the voice for your audiobooks :D

  • Paper towns, thou art amazing. =)

    But, alas, you are currently on loan to a baby nerdfighter that I am making.

  • Paper Towns in yo pants!!!!!

  • i just bought this for my kindle, and i finished it in 4 hours =P COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN. i loved it

  • okay okay you convinced me I'm reading the book.

  • Just read this and it's AWESOME! It's literaly made of AWESOME1

  • @Tomymdobson is it scary? 

  • I have to get this book 4 Xmas if i dont ill try 2 get my allowance (im 12) early and buy the book at a local book store

  • What are the chances that in the middle of watching this video i lost my right molar!

    (im 11)

  • IM SO GETTING THIS BOOK FOR CRISTMAS!!!!!

  • I discovered the brilliance of the vlog brothers a month or two ago, but I just started reading John's books this weekend (love them!) and now I can 'hear' how John narrating in my head as I read :)

  • @persnickety99 I hear john narrating in ALL books I read now... oh my God...

  • @thecrazyminion That oughta make Lord of the Flies sound interesting

  • I've been reading this to my Flat mates as an intellectual prank. Go me.

  • am i the only one who was following the words as John read? :)

  • 24 people thought the dislike button said "dis i like"

  • I Have read More of John Greens book in the past month then i have read... in my entire life.... Lol All 4 of them :D Thank you John green for igniting my passion for reading

  • Do you know when the book will be available in german?

  • @Fuerni1 Das Buch gibts schon seit letztem Jahr. Auf Deutsch heißt es "Margos Spuren".

  • @shedefinitelylikes Danke, habs schon gefunden und auch schon bestellt.

  • I just bought three of John's books for my christmas gifts to myself...can't wait to read this one :)

  • Baldwin Park. hehehe

  • LOVE <3

  • @linkandAGdollsareok Pretty much anyone who watches and likes one of the vlogbrothers' videos is a nerdfighter. Which means you might be one, too!

  • What are the nerdfighters? And awesome!! I'll have to check it out John!!!!

  • @linkandAGdollsareok Also instead of bones and organs and stuff, you are made completely and entirely of awesome. If this is you, you may be a nerdfighter :D

  • my new ship is john green/margo roth speileman

  • love the book geting it today

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  • I bought it yesterday and now im reading it on my ipad!!! :D:D

  • i read along :D

    but i felt left out.... the margo on my copy is quite different.

    i would also buy the audiobook if mr. green here read it.

  • I LOVE your books and i watched your channel but never made the connection until recently. but its so cool. i just read looking for alaska but paper towns is definitely my favorite

  • is the book for sale in ireland?!

  • Paper towns came out 2 years ago? WOAH

  • OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have just fineshed paper towns. it is amazing :) . like really amazing. everyone should read this. i mean wow. John Green. I mean french the llama he is a great author. BTW favorite line in the whole book. In the chapter in Becca's basement. When Ben says to her "you bleed suck". love it lol. Second favourite line "IM NOT BEING MODEST I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO DIE". absolutely brillient book .