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Today I finished reading “An Abundance of Katherines“, it’s a book highly recommended by my special friend across the pond (of Doom!). At first I thought it was going to be a chick flick book;boy meets girl (probably called Katherine), girl falls in love with boy, and i dunno, some interesting event happened, probably a third person, and then they break up, but in the end they get back together and BAM, fornication! THE END! But yeah… it really wasn’t haha. The book had loads of winning themes that I’m interested in which makes it a win; a child prodigy, anagrams, foreign languages, maths (mmm indexed and xkcd), witty humour and a shed load of cheeky footnotes! Here’s what the back of the book says (speed typed by moi):

19 Katherines and counting…

When it comes to relationships, 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.

One the 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 relationships, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and may finally win him the girl.

Ok, so the description does sound a bit cheesy but once you get into it, you’ll realise it’s not really about the ever so clichéd theme love. It’s about crazy road trips, anagrams, jokes about emo’s, inside jokes, wit, hilarious graphs and cheeky maths (because lets face it, we all love MATHS!). The author is a huge fan of Catcher in the Rye (you’ll notice a lot of subtle references to the book) and this book is pretty similar to it (read Catcher in the Rye if you haven’t already) as it’s based upon a pretty self centered character going on a bitch ass trip to discover stuff (and at the same time sweating like a *******).

“amour aime aimer amour!”

So yeah, the photo I took in this post was dedicated to it, it’s filled with geekiness, cryptology and inside jokes that you’ll begin to understand once you read it (and you want to get inside my mind dont you? huh huh? :)). So yeah, read it, it certainly made me chuckle during my commutes to work. Now I’ll be stuck on what to read next *strokes metaphorical beard*.

So yeah, cozy blabbers* recomends you to an Abundance of Katherines
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