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Can someone explain to me what's the deal with John Green? Why does a mature man write about teenage love? Does he like what he writes? Does he really believes in it or is it just a farce? Does he do it for the money?

>>10085308

You have absolutely no valid argument to explain why John Green is a bad author. Literary merit is subjective. You can't even think of any other reason why he is a bad author besides "MUH CLICHE". He does not have bad prose, in fact he writes like De Lillio. Shakespeare was considered bad during his time too. Same with John Green. He will go down history as one of the greatest writers to ever live.

Give me one good reason, just ONE GOOD REASON, why I John Green should be considered a bad author.

You can't.

Hey, guys. R-remember me?

>>7775397
Idk, but is John Green the snew of literature?

John Green is running a fundraiser and once it meets a goal he he is going to read from a book he is writing. I thought someone here might care.

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>>6881911
yes if you whore your talent by writing what the audience want to read

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>>6868521
>"As I write this, my children are asleep in their room, Loretta Lynn is on the stereo, and my wife is out on a date with a man named Paulo. It’s her second date this week; her fourth this month so far. If it goes like the others, she’ll come home in the middle of the night, crawl into bed beside me, and tell me all about how she and Paulo had sex. I won’t explode with anger or seethe with resentment. I’ll tell her it’s a hot story and I’m glad she had fun. It’s hot because she’s excited, and I’m glad because I’m a feminist."
>~John Green

Just read 'A Fault in our Stars', and i must say it was a delight. What should i read next friends?

He is the new man.

The new sort of man. You all know the kind. He's been completely castrated. He's been divorced from anything primal. Completely shorn of any crimethink.

He's like a little, supple, baby-oiled infant. A modern Cupid. A little faggy nothing of a thing who believes in nothing and flaps in the goddamn breeze, whichever way it happens to be flapping.

Tell me, would you ever respect a man who makes a fortune telling 13-year-old girls what they want to hear? Would you ever respect a man who writes fiction for girls whose breasts are still budding?

Look at him and weep. You see a piece of yourself in him, don't you? That piece that you're ashamed of. That cringing little coward in the corner of your soul.

For like him you've never cut down a pine. Never stood on a cliff's edge, bare-chested, roaring into the great wilds. Never killed with your hands.

The fire is gone from his eyes. The fire that the ancients had. The great men of eminence.

And now we have "logic" and "reason" and they're a small consolation to a beastly heart, which still beats, faint as it may be, still beats.

Can you hear it in your chest?

“This sounds promising…,” Venkat said.
“It is!” Jack said excitedly. “First, we update Pathfinder so it knows how to talk to the rover. Then, we tell Watney exactly how to hack the rover software to add those twenty instructions. Then we have Pathfinder broadcast new software to the rover. The rover logs the bytes to a file. Finally, Watney launches the file as an executable and the rover patches itself!”
Venkat furrowed his brow, taking in far more information than his sleep-deprived mind wanted to accept.
“Um,” Jack said. “You’re not cheering or dancing.”
“So we just need to send Watney those twenty instructions?” Venkat asked.
“That, and how to edit the files. And where to insert the instructions in the files.”
“Just like that?”
“Just like that!”
Venkat was silent for a moment. “Jack, I’m going to buy your whole team autographed Star Trek memorabilia.”
“I prefer Star Wars,” he said, turning to leave. “The original trilogy only, of course.”
“Of course,” Venkat said.

What is the worst part about his writing?