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An Abundance of Katherines
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An Abundance of Katherines is a young adult novel written by John Green. It tells the story of Colin, a recent high school graduate whose girlfriend Katherine has just dumped him. This is made even more traumatic because Colin has dated no fewer than 19 girls named Katherine, all of whom dumped him.Colin's friend, Hassan, talks him into going on a road trip to take his mind off the pain of losing yet another Katherine. They end up in a small town known as Gutshot, Tennessee, and quickly find themselves at the home of a woman who runs a textile factory which manufactures tampon strings (which is the main source of income for the town). She has a daughter named Lindsey, who is smart and funny and has "a smile that could stop wars and cure cancer," but (1) Colin is definitely not interested and (2) Lindsey already has a boyfriend (named Colin) note Colin is fond of numbered lists in the middle of sentences. Colin and Hassan quickly become friends with Lindsey and start having all sorts of strange adventures. | |
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Applied Mathematics | |
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Applied Mathematics: Colin's attempts at graphing his relationships with the Katherines. The longest equation contains the variables age (A), Popularity Differential (C), Attractiveness Differential (H), Dumper/Dumpee Differential (D), and Introvert/Extrovert Differential (P). | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Good is Not Nice: Hassan is a good person and a pretty good friend, but he often uses a slew of insults and profanity to get his points across to Colin. | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely: Lindsay was a scrawny, allegedly "ugly" child, but when she started working to attain popularity and conventional good looks the boys in her town had this reaction. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: Oh, boy. Though the story is mainly written in English, Colin is a polyglot and converses with other characters in a variety of languages (including German, French and Arabic). | |
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Omniglot | |
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Omniglot: Colin, to an extent. Justified in that he's a child prodigy who learned many of the languages at a very young age. | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy: Hassan is implied to be this. He skipped a grade and got a 5 on at least one of his AP exams, but he spends most of his time watching television re-runs and doesn't want to go to college. | |
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Foreign Cuss Word | |
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Foreign Cuss Word: In order of appearance: sitzpinkler (German: wimp/a man who sits to pee), kafir (Arabic: infidel), merde (French: shit), and paardenlul (Dutch: horse's penis). | |
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Significant Anagram | |
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Significant Anagram: When Colin discovers Archduke Franz Ferdinand is an anagram of Fred N. Dinzanfar Lindsey's great-grandfather | |
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Unusual Chapter Numbers | |
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Unusual Chapter Numbers: Occasionally, but always within conventional chapters, with the exception of (epilogue, or the lindsey lee wells chapter). They take the form of The End (of the End) and The Middle (of the Beginning). Also, there are as many numbered chapters as there are Katherines. | |
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Gag Penis | |
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Gag Penis: Hassan claims to have one. Since he's saving himself for marriage, the truth of the matter remains unknown. | |
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Pair the Spares | |
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Pair the Spares: Hassan and Katrina, Lindsey's only female friend. They break up when Colin and Hassan catch Katrina cheating with TOC. | |
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Significant Name Overlap | |
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Significant Name Overlap: All of Colin's 19 ex-girlfriends are named Katherine, and each of them ended up dumping him. He then meets a possible new love interest named Lindsey, but she initially has a boyfriend, who coincidentally is also named Colin (thereafter nicknamed "The Other Colin" or TOC). | |
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Ethical Slut | |
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Ethical Slut: Katrina is portrayed as this until it's discovered that she cheated on Hassan with TOC. | |
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DudeMagnet | |
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Dude Magnet: Lindsay appears to have become this after her popular girl makeover in middle school. | |
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Odd Name Out | |
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Odd Name Out : Out of all the girlfriends that Colin's ever had so far, Lindsey winds up being the only one (and the first) who is not called Katherine at the end of the book. | |
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Insecure Love Interest | |
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Insecure Love Interest: Colin was this to Katherine XIX, often asking her to remind him that he was still smart and that she still loved him. This, in part, led to their break-up. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname: Colin and Hassan refer to Lindsey's boyfriend as "TOC" (The Other Colin); her other friends are JATT (Jeans Are Too Tight) and SOCT (Short One Chewing Tobacco). | |
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Bee Afraid | |
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Bee Afraid: Making a feral pig hunting trip even worse. | |
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First Girl Wins | |
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First Girl Wins: Played with. We see Katherine XIX. We see Katherine I. About halfway through the book, it's revealed that they are one and the same. On a normal timeline of the story, it is subverted because Katherine XIX dumps Colin, but since some of the events are revealed out of order it has a zig-zagged effect. Also played straight: While visiting the tampon factory, Colin meets an attractive girl named Katherine—but he's already decided he's fallen in love with Lindsey. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: A John Green book where the main character makes numbered lists and is on an extended road trip launched by love? | |
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Footnote Fever | |
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Footnote Fever: The book contains a large number of footnotes, usually containing strange-but-true facts that are irrelevant to the story note but still cool. The fact that they're written in the same narrative style and perspective as the rest of the story also makes it work | |
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Teen Genius | |
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Teen Genius: Colin worries that he isn't one. "Prodigies learn. Geniuses do." | |
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Serial Romeo | |
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Serial Romeo: Maybe not every week, but Colin has dated more girls named Katherine than he's had years in his life. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Unusual Euphemism: Fug, an obvious stand-in for a certain word. Lampshaded by Lindsey and explained by Colin, in-universe. | |
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Writers Cannot Do Math | |
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Writers Cannot Do Math: The author had someone else (Professional Mathematician Daniel Biss) come up with the mathematical formulas in the book, but a few mistakes still slipped through. | |
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Translation Convention | |
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Translation Convention: Averted. The dialogue is in Arabic and German at times note with footnotes translating them. | |
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Has a Type: Colin for Katherines. | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Averted. The book contains a good number of different languages, all of which are completely correct grammatically and otherwise. | |
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Geeky Turn-On | |
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Geeky Turn-On: Sort of. Colin's "type" is "not physical but linguistic". He likes Katherines. No nicknames or alternative spellings. | |
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Homeschooled Kids | |
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Homeschooled Kids: Colin, until first grade. Hassan, until high school. | |
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High-School Sweethearts | |
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High-School Sweethearts: Colin was holding out hope for him and Katherine XIX to be this. They're not, at least not within the timeframe of the story. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: The Hardcover Edition features an appendix where John Green (with the help of a Ph.D mathematician!) actually works out Colin's love formulas. | |
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