Judul: Paper Towns
Penulis: John Green
Penerbit: Speak
Tahun Terbit: 2008
Halaman: 305
Genre: Young Adult & Romance
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Who is the real Margo?
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew...
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew...
Quentin jatuh cinta kepada Margo Roth Spiegelman--tetangganya, teman sepermainannya saat kecil, dan seorang gadis yang penuh petualangan. Q satu sekolah dengan Margo, dan dia selalu memerhatikan Margo dari kejauhan. Jadi, ketika Margo datang kepadanya untuk berpetualang bersama, Q pun menyanggupinya. Namun esok harinya, Margo menghilang dari sekolah dan meninggalkan petunjuk-petunjuk kepada Q. Ia pun berusaha untuk menemukan Margo, karena Q yakin bahwa di suatu tempat, Margo menunggunya.
"That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste."
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Oke, jujur aja rada susah buat sinopsis dari Bahasa Inggris ke Indonesia huft-_- Tapi biar para pembaca di Indonesia ngerti dan berminat untuk baca, jadi aku berusaha me-review dalam bahasa Indo. :) Btw, bagi yang bener-bener berminat baca Paper Towns, ada kok versi terjemahannya diterbitin oleh GPU kalo gak salah.
Nah, balik lagi ke reviewnya. Alurnya sih, menurutku seru, banget. Bagi aku yang suka misteri dan romance juga, perpaduan misteri + romance itu oke banget. Dimulai dari petualangan Q dan Margo yang kocak juga seru banget, terus Margo yang menghilang dari sekolah, dari kehidupan Q. Petunjuk-petunjuk yang bertebaran di kamar Margo, dan ditujukan untuk Q. Dari sanalah, Q percaya bahwa Margo terus menunggunya. Ditutup dengan ending yang menurutku kurang nendang. Maaf, tapi coba aja kalo endingnya lebih mantap, aku bakalan bilang ini buku terfavoritku.
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Karakter-karakternya, dimulai dari Margo yang misterius, unik, sangat suka berpetualang; Q yang punya kehidupan normal, membosankan; sahabat-sahabat Q yang unik-unik dan kocak: Ben dan Radar. Semuanya punya minus-plus. Kekurangan-kelebihan. Dan aku suka banget sama karakter-karakter disini. Semuanya saling melengkapi untuk menciptakan cerita yang mengagumkan. :D
Apa yang selalu oke di sini adalah gaya bahasanya John Green. Bagi yang udah baca The Fault in Our Stars (review), ya pastinya kalian bisa nebak gimana seru dan enaknya tulisan Mr. Green itu. Gaya bahasanya enak, ngalir, dan aku cepet banget nyelesaiin buku ini ya karna 2 alasan: gaya tulisannya sama alurnya yang bikin penasaran banget pastinya. Oh iya, kalo di TFiOS ada metafora-metafora, banyak vocab yang rada susah-susah, yak. Disini sama aja. Bahkan menurutku metafora-metaforanya lebih riweuh disini dan vocab-nya juga susah T_T. Walaupun gitu, jangan patah semangat bagi yaa yang baca buku ini dalam Bahasa Inggris. Lama-lama kalian akan ngerti arti-arti metaforanya yang oke-oke itu. :))
" ... But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it's only in that time that we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs. When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out." - hlm 302.
Semuanya kereen bagiku, cuman endingnya aja yang kurang nendang. Btw, katanya buku ini mirip sama Looking for Alaska ya? Harusnya aku baca Looking for Alaska dulu kali ya._. Ya sudahlah, pokoknya aku rekomen buku ini buat para pembaca Young-Adult, romance, sama misteri-misteri lovers. Bagi yang udah baca, gimana nih menurut kalian? Share yaa^^
"And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford their kids to college." - hlm 33 - 34.
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Yes yes! The movie!
BIOGRAPHY TAKEN FROM GOODREADS
ABOUT AUTHOR
John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. In January 2012, his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars, was met with wide critical acclaim, unprecedented in Green's career. The praise included rave reviews in Time Magazine and The New York Times, on NPR, and from award-winning author Markus Zusak. The book also topped the New York Times Children's Paperback Bestseller list for several weeks. Green has also coauthored a book with David Levithan called Will Grayson, Will Grayson, published in 2010. The film rights for all his books, with the exception of Will Grayson Will Grayson, have been optioned to major Hollywood Studios.
In 2007, John and his brother Hank were the hosts of a popular internet blog, "Brotherhood 2.0," where they discussed their lives, books and current events every day for a year except for weekends and holidays. They still keep a video blog, now called "The Vlog Brothers," which can be found on the Nerdfighters website, or a direct link here.
MORE ABOUT JOHN GREEN
John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. In January 2012, his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars, was met with wide critical acclaim, unprecedented in Green's career. The praise included rave reviews in Time Magazine and The New York Times, on NPR, and from award-winning author Markus Zusak. The book also topped the New York Times Children's Paperback Bestseller list for several weeks. Green has also coauthored a book with David Levithan called Will Grayson, Will Grayson, published in 2010. The film rights for all his books, with the exception of Will Grayson Will Grayson, have been optioned to major Hollywood Studios.
In 2007, John and his brother Hank were the hosts of a popular internet blog, "Brotherhood 2.0," where they discussed their lives, books and current events every day for a year except for weekends and holidays. They still keep a video blog, now called "The Vlog Brothers," which can be found on the Nerdfighters website, or a direct link here.
MORE ABOUT JOHN GREEN
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