Hello humphreys! On today's BRAIN VITAMIN corner, I'm gonna talk about one of my favorite author book, which is, the infamous An Abundance Of Katherines. Not too long ago, I accidentally walked through periplus bookstore. If you're not living in Indonesia, periplus bookstore is a bookstore that sell a lot of imported books. So if you're looking at book on this store, chances are they are all in english.
I bought the paperback version of it, and this one is published by Dutton Books USA. It was sold for US$9.99 in USA, but I bought it somewhere around $15 here or $18, I don't know. You know, taxes and all that shit. I don't know about ordering directly from USA, but I guess that would cost me quite a number too, considering I need to pay the shipping.
Summary
When it comes to relationship, 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 over-weight, 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 and avenge Dumpees everywhere, and may finally win him the girl.
Basically, a book about this Colin trying to predict his love relationship by using some kind of math formulas. That's crazy. I won't even think about math outside from class. Not a strange things though. Considering he's or used to be according to him, a child prodigy. I don't know why he's always looking for a girl named Katherine, I mean, Samantha sounds good right? Hahahaha. I want to write some spoiler, but I hate spoiler so much, so I guess I won't write anything more about the content, in case you didn't read it yet.
Anyway, I found Green's vocabulary explaining about the dumping phenomenon funny.
Dumper = This annoying person who dump someone.
Dumpee = Pitiful person who is dumped.
And there is math. Lots of it. LOTS. So if you're a math dummy like me, I've warned you.
One of the fact that I like from the story is that finally, finally, finally, I found a main characters that loves reading so much. Not just, yeah I read books. But YEAH I READ BOOKS!!
"He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head."
I'm so in love with that sentence I ended up highlighting it. Never. I mean, never in my entire life, I used a highlighter on my books aside from my college books. I love them too much to ruin them with the highlighter. This one is my first exception.
In case you're wondering what's that annoying red ribbons on top of my book, here it is.
It's just my lazy-made bookmark. With quotes from the book, topped with some random vector.
That's that. I hope it's not too boring. I'll talk about another book I love on my next vitamin corner! If you have any books suggestion though, don't be afraid to comment. Bye humphreys!
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