John Green
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I love John Green, I would rate higher than a twoSnrains13 wrote: ↑15 Feb 2018, 10:28 John Green is good at targeting his audiences with his YA novels, the plots aren't always the typical ones you see over and over which is good, and I actually love his tendency to kill off characters. It makes it a little bit less predictable than the majority of authors where the characters always overcome, also the anticipation of wondering who it's going to be is there. I wouldn't rate most of his higher than a 2, however, except maybe Paper Towns could be rated a 3.
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I enjoyed TFIOS as I was reading it, but once I was finished and recovered, I realized the multitude of issues with it. I read Looking for Alaska next, and then An Abundance of Katherine's. Abundance was definitely a great recovery novel and is my second favorite novel by Green. My first is Alaska. Papertowns was also pretty good.
I don't know how I feel about the adaptations, though. I watched both in theaters when they came out but haven't since revisited them.
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The best part about John Green is definitely the online community he and his brother have created.
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I agree, his style is extremely pretentious. I have read several John Green books, but I disliked all of them, especially Looking for Alaska, sorry. Overall, I find him to be overrated. However, I say all this without having yet read the Fault in Out Stars, so perhaps I might change my mind.aMYethoughts wrote: ↑03 Aug 2014, 12:36 I hate to do any kind of bashing on John Green because I do enjoy everything he is doing on YouTube. I just think his writing style is a strange mixture of pretentious and simple. His dialogue is something that feels very unrealistic for anyone, let alone teenagers. His novels are sentimental, and I have admittedly cried throughout Looking for Alaska and the Fault in Our Stars. From what I have seen from these two books, however, I believe he uses very, very similar story lines and plot elements.
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