/lit/ - Literature

BILL HAS SPOKEN

G., JOHN IS TRULY /hisguy/

https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Best-Books-2017?WT.mc_id=12_04_2017_10_EOYBooks2017_BG-TW_&WT.tsrc=BGTW&linkId=45494932

How does it make you feel, /lit/? Does it rustle your jimmies? Does it push your shopping cart? Does it check out all the items in your shopping cart too? Does if slap your wife? Does it revv your engine? It definitely destroys your self esteem. Does it soggify your cereal? Does it purchase those local AAA baseball tickets you told your son you would be years ago? Does it ruin your daily cry?

I got a lot more where that came from, dont piss me off

>tfw you will never punch john green in his stupid smug face

>>10016579
>Why is she drinking milk?
it's a meaphor, see

>>9229933
>tfw plebs don't know Green wrote YA in order to earn a quick buck so he could work full-time in his masterpiece.
>tfw plebs were fooled by the sublime irony of his portrait of the millenial zeitgeist.
>tfw ''The Fault in our Stars'' is actually the YA equivalent of ''Don Quixote''.
Swallow the Greenpill, my dudes.

>I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

What the fuck does this shit mean? It sounds like the ramblings of a fucking child.

>The kilder massed, one then and uhindred, (harefoot, birdyhands,
herringabone, beesknees), and they barneydansked a kathareen round to
know the who and to show the howsome. Why was you hiding, moder
of moders? And where was hunty, poppa the gun? Pointing up to
skyless heaven like the spoon out of sergeantmajor's tay. Which was the
worst of them phaymix cupplerts? He's herd of hoarding and her faiths
is altared. Becoming ungoing, their seeming sames for though that
liamstone deaf do his part there's a windtreetop whipples the damp off
the mourning. But tellusit allasif wellasits end.

what did he meme by this?

>cheerios

" David Bowie turned marketing into the essence of his art. All great phenomena of popular music, from Elvis Presley to the Beatles, had been, first and foremost, marketing phenomena (just like Coca Cola and Barbie before them); however, Bowie turned that into an art of its own. With Bowie the science of marketing becomes art; art and marketing become one. There were intellectuals who had proclaimed this theory in rebellious terms. Bowie was, in many ways, the heir, no matter how perverted, of Andy Warhol's pop art and of the underground culture of the 1960s. He adopted some of the most blaspheme issues and turned them upside down to make them precisely what they had been designed to fight: a commodity.

Bowie was a protagonist of his times, although a poor musician: to say that Bowie is a musician is like saying that Nero was a harp player (a fact that is technically true, but misleading). Bowie embodies the quintessence of artificial art, raises futulity to paradigm, focuses on the phenomenon rather than the content, makes irrelevant the relevant, and, thus, is the epitome of everything that went wrong with rock music."

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Also worthy of mention is a clique among the suicidal for whom the meaning of their act is a darker thing. Frustrated as perpetrators of an all-inclusive extermination, they would kill themselves only because killing it all is closed off to them. They hate having been delivered into a world only to be told, by and by, “This way to the abattoir, Ladies and Gentlemen.” They despise the conspiracy of Lies for Life almost as much as they despise themselves for being a party to it. If they could unmake the world by pushing a button, they would do so without a second thought. There is no satisfaction in a lonesome suicide. The phenomenon of “suicide euphoria” aside, there is only fear, bitterness, or depression beforehand, then the troublesomeness of the method, and nothingness afterward. But to push that button, to depopulate this earth and arrest its rotation as well—what satisfaction, as of a job prettily done. This would be for the good of all, for even those who know nothing about the conspiracy against the human race are among its injured parties.

why is he such a genius /lit/?

>"Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are."

John Green, Paper Towns (THIS SUMMER IN THEATERS)

John Green

What's his best book?

>>4963325
> Everything has to be a fucking Reddit half-joke in sarcastic pseudo-Chandler cadence.

Yup. This is the annoying part. Everything else would be fine by me if the whole time you weren't thinking goddammit why is he even trying to fit all these terrible jokes into like three sentences.

>>4963319

Overall I don't hate him, especially after watching that one video where he says he writes genre lit. that shouldn't ever be taught in classrooms. Gained a lot of respect for him from that.

But as some other posters said, his crash course videos don't really summarize the events of the time period effectively. It's more: "here's a summary of the things John Green thinks are cool throughout history, told in chronological order". And I think the production is neat enough that he could get away with being less fucking schizophrenic in every video/forcing in 1 million jokes and still have a sizable teenage fanbase. Even if his viewership was cut in half the quality would be better.

As for his books, I read a passage from TFIOS. Thought it was pretty terrible honestly. I like his titles though, Paper Towns is a cool title, The Fault in Our Stars is a cool title. One day I'll read one of the books. He seems like a good guy, if a little obnoxious at times, that receives too much praise from one side and too much hatred from the other. Hopefully some horrible tragedy happens to him, and he goes on some long journey of self realization for 20+ years where he writes constantly and never shows it to anyone, then comes back and becomes a legitimately good writer adding to the canon.

Makes me wonder, are there any examples of legit writers who started of as pop-writers or something similar?

Also one time my mother emailed me a video with the title "This guy reminds me of you" and it was fucking John Green and that made me uncomfortable

How can I tell if my writing is melodramatic and manipulative?