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Paper Towns

Green John
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contemporary fiction coming of age past tense first POV ~335 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

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melancholic lyrical restless

A contemporary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Plot-driven. Contains notable humor.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 40
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 85
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 65
externalintrospective
Ending 50
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 45
intimateepic

Content

Violence 40%
noneextreme
Sexual content 30%
noneexplicit
Humor 60%
seriouscomedic
Romance 50%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count83,863
Page count~335 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

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