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12204507 No.12204507 [Reply] [Original]

What do I need to read in order to understand john green

>> No.12204515

A vagina

>> No.12204524

Why do I get the feeling OP hasn't read the classics yet?

This is why we say "start with the Greeks."

God...

>> No.12204536

Fpbp

>> No.12204544

>>12204507
His books aren't hard to understand you autistic fuck.

>> No.12204545

Start with Da Jesus Book, you should be fine after that.

>> No.12204575

>>12204507
Something deep inside your ass

>> No.12204612

The mindset of a 15 year old feminist male

>> No.12205283

>>12204515

Nice one, Punchy.

>> No.12205284

his books perhaps?

>> No.12205286

>>12204612
pin pon

>> No.12205327

>>12204507
A better bait thread

>> No.12205355

>>12204524
u no get satire

>> No.12205362
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>>12204507

>> No.12205443

A female adolescent teen's diary

>> No.12205474

If you can't understand John Green then you're either A: Fucking retarded and should stop reading or B: John Green's novels are too horrible for you and you should read something else

>> No.12205479

>>12205355
Not him but
>u
Nah its u who dont idiot

>> No.12205505
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>>12204507
Start with pic related, then you may proceed

>> No.12205547

>>12205479
Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize we had to write in proper English all the time, particularly when we are criticizing those who can't comprehend social conventions.

The joke should be taken as "speaking down to his level" but if u no understand dat me guess u no understand social convention either, u autist.

>> No.12205550

>>12205362
All those books, and yet not one worth reading. Wow, I'm almost impressed.

>> No.12205559

>>12205505
Not at all. Yes these are normie lit, but to say Green uses ANY of these in his own work gives him far too much credit.

>> No.12205573

>>12205550
Parzival is pretty good, one of my favorite Arthurian tales.

>> No.12205586

>>12204507
Nothing but TheGuardian for 3 weeks

>> No.12205591

>>12205573
Oh was Parzival in there? I must have missed it. And also the Commedia is as well I guess.
But 98% of this chart is poetic dross.

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>>12205505

>> No.12205634

>>12205591
I'd go as high as saying 99%, minus Parzival

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>>12205593
>lindybeige

>> No.12205672

>>12205642
Did you miss Plato, Jim Carrey and David Bowie?

>> No.12205682
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>>12205593
Now that is some bait. Everyone is getting it on this chart!
>Jesus
>Kafka
>Nietzsche

>> No.12205733

>>12205505
Why do people have to politicise everything nowadays. I hate fucking 21st century.

>> No.12205800

>>12204507
Start with the greeks

>> No.12205816

>>12205733
Just cause it's condescending doesn't make it political. The chart is clearly centrist

>> No.12206216

>>12205355
Are you an idiot? You think I'd recommend anyone read the classics as a prerequisite for "understanding John Green"? Christ.

>> No.12206229

>>12205355
>implying a classical education isn't necessary to fathom john green's works

>> No.12206269

>>12205593
>implying fantano isn't the greatest living philosopher

>> No.12206272

>>12205547
Wtf?? I even used "u", i was criticizing the fact that u dont understand social conventions such as sarcasm and satire, satire as in "start with the greeks" as if youd need to do that to understand fucking john green. Delicious bait btw

>> No.12206284

>>12204507
Start by asking your friends to dip their dicks into your cereal.

>> No.12207113

Why is no one here funny

>> No.12207140

>>12205593
imagine taking the time to make this image

>> No.12207580

>>12205593
>Borges
>Socrates
>Land
>Dosto
>based William Buckly JR

Kill yourself. Good otherwise.

>> No.12207586
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>>12204507
>Cock is one of my favorite tastes. Not only that, but balls smell amazing. It makes me go a little crazy on it to be honest. Like, I cannot get it far enough down my throat to be satisfied. I’m only satisfied when I feel those intense, powerful, salty, hot pumps of cum down my throat. When I sit back on my heels, look up at you with cum all over my mouth and slobber running down my neck, hair all fucked up and wipe my mouth with the back of my arm and ask you if I did a good job and you cannot even speak because I’ve drained all of your energy out the tip of your dick….. That’s when I’m satisfied.
- Actual quote from John Green.

>> No.12207590

>>12207580
He's probably took "start with the greeks" to a new level and now he's "start and end with the greeks"

>> No.12207616

>>12205593
>Frank Zappa and James Joyce in one image

lol

>> No.12208055

>>12204507
You have to read the whole western canon before being able to understand him

>> No.12208070

just take your heaviest book and get someone to bash you over the head with it for a few minutes.

>> No.12208084

has anybody actually read one of this books, what's it like?

>> No.12208117

This guy seems real milquetoast.

>> No.12208144

>>12204507
a lobotomy

alternatively XX chromosomes

>> No.12208161

The real question is how much John Green do I need to read to understand Rick and Morty?

>> No.12208170

>>12208161
just read the wikipedia page on Nihilism

>> No.12208173

>>12208170
But that doesn't help me with the pop culture references. That's where the smart humor is.

>> No.12208179

>>12204507
I feel the beginning and very end of Flowers for Algernon work well. You can leave the entire middle bits out though, it sort of goes on a tangent.

>> No.12208196

>>12204515
How do you read a vagina?

>> No.12208203

>>12204507
r/cuckold would do, op

>> No.12208204

>>12208196
Left to right, top to bottom.

>> No.12208210

>>12205593
>Socrates
>Kafka
>Jesus
>Dostoevsky
Unironically kys

>> No.12208440

>>12204507
How long untill we discover that he is a pedophile?

>> No.12209048

>>12205816
>centrist
>acceleration man and stirner in it
The chart is clearly done by an autist.

>> No.12209053

>>12205593
>bowie for some reason

>> No.12209077

>>12207586
This shouldn’t still make me crap my pants with laughter

>> No.12209175

>>12204507
>What do I need to read in order to understand john green
a waiver of liability for your scheduled lobotomy. you also have to sign it.

>> No.12209178

>>12208440
how long? not long. for the moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

>> No.12210363

>>12205593
Why is the Angry Video Game Nerd there lmao

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>>12204507
Please someone help me! Potential 7/10 gf material says her "favourite author at the moment must be John Green". How bad can he really be? What's his best book? If he's really that bad I probably couldn't bare her being a fan of his.

>> No.12211011

>>12205593
What the fuck is this image
>Joyce
>Ben Shapiro
>Bowie
>Jesus
>fucking AVGN

>> No.12212485

>>12204507
The alphabet.

>> No.12212492

>>12210693
pathetic

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>>12210693

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>> No.12212602

>>12204507
>john green
who

>> No.12212605

>>12207580
also Bertrand Russell and Harold Bloom

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>> No.12212608

>>12205593
this might be my favorite image on this site holy fuck, the fact that sam hyde is on their twice really seals the deal my sides have left the solar system

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>>12207586
i kek'd, nice one