I absolutely hated my experience (read: wasting time) of reading over 300 pages of this bestselling rubbish. The characters sounded more like caricatures of old souls caught in teenage bodies and the Van Houten part was also too overdone for me. Half-baked story and overdone dialogues, someone please knock some sense into John Green as a lot of readers all over the world are following this man like he's some God. He can really do better, anyone can do better than this actually! This was one sorry excuse of a cancer book, easy way of making people sob
(which I didn't because I was too busy rolling my eyes at the ludicrous elements in the book).
And thanks for listing out the goof-ups from the book, you must have gigantic amounts of patience to have read the book and then actually jotted down the absurd points of this novel. I seriously bow down to you for that. Thanks for sharing your insight.
This book made such a splash, I wanted to read it very closely. I still think PAPER TOWNS is his best work (of what I've read). But like you, I'm eager to see him stretch himself more. He has a book coming out this year, I think, so we'll see!
(which I didn't because I was too busy rolling my eyes at the ludicrous elements in the book).