I bought it for myself for christmas, i thought it was pretty good, but the ending was extraordinarily shit
a solid 7/10
[sp] anyone else thought the book was gonna end like the novel in the book?[/sp]
Wow finally someone else.
My girlfriend recently gave me this book to read and jesus it was really sad but great.
[sp]Fucking Augustus :([/sp]
Cant wait for the movie.
I want a girlfriend to go see it with, so I don't look like a massive sensitive loser going on my own.
[QUOTE=t h e;43589286]My friend really dislikes John Green books[/QUOTE]
The only friends I have that don't like his books say that they hate his "manic pixie dream girls," not realizing that his books are actually [i]deconstructing[/i] those kinds of characters. Alaska, for instance, is just a very frustrating character to deal with, especially with what happens just before part 2 of the book. And Paper Towns is about how cruel it is to imagine someone as mysterious and magical and way cooler than you when in reality she's just a person.
[QUOTE=Dan2593;43622654]I want a girlfriend to go see it with, so I don't look like a massive sensitive loser going on my own.[/QUOTE]
I got this book for my girl for her birthday, she broke up with me a month later quoting that part about not understanding the promises you make [sp]and conveniently not mentioning what comes immediately after that line.[/sp] She seemed really excited about seeing it too.
Avatar fits.
[QUOTE=Jonii;43632889]The only friends I have that don't like his books say that they hate his "manic pixie dream girls," not realizing that his books are actually [i]deconstructing[/i] those kinds of characters. Alaska, for instance, is just a very frustrating character to deal with, especially with what happens just before part 2 of the book. And Paper Towns is about how cruel it is to imagine someone as mysterious and magical and way cooler than you when in reality she's just a person.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't really know, I haven't read a John Green book (I think). My friend dislikes it because she thinks the author's a bit pretentious and is using serious topics as a sort of cash grab. She also thinks the characters are repetitive throughout his books (which my other friend, who does like John Green does slightly agree with). She had a few other reasonable explanations for her dislike, but I'm just putting that out there. I've never read a John Green book and I know people who do like his works.
i read the book a few months ago
i only sobbed for half an hour
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[QUOTE=Chonch;43719746][video=youtube;9ItBvH5J6ss]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ItBvH5J6ss[/video][/QUOTE]The one thing I like about this trailer is it highlights just how goofy and unrealistic the dialogue is.
The reason he wrote a book about a cancer kid was not cash grabbing. He worked as a chaplain at a children's hospital and saw loads of kids die and how awful it was, and it took him around 10 years to write a book that did justice to that. Also, though his YouTube channel he made friends with a girl with cancer to whom the boom is dedicated. From what I understand she was a lovely human being.
In fact if you read the book it kind of points out how cliche most of the books are.
The only really possible repeats of characters are Alaska and Margo and Quentin and miles, and I would argue they are broadly similar but they have loads of differences.
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