The pursuit of cheerleaders."The story summed up in three basic points:Ī) 3 typical hormone driven male charactersī) 14 hot cheerleaders waiting for them (because what else would they want to do, apart from make out with idiots with twister in the middle of the biggest storm in 50 years?) But if you die tonight, die in the comfort that you have sacrificed your lives for that noblest of human causes. Wonder what would happen if I tweaked the characters a little bit and wrote the same story again? "Gentlemen, may you travel safely and swiftly. I assume his thought process behind writing a cheertastic christmas miracle was something like this: Oh, Paper Towns is making millions. I don't know what I was thinking when I bought John Green posters, but I believe it's safe for me to say: I fucking hate his writing. I suppose it's meant to be cute, how these stories are about teenage romances on Christmas Eve. But oh boy, when she brings this up every chapter, it gets on your nerves. Come to think of it, it might be interchangeable with hoedown.At this point, you might be thinking this isn't annoying, it's funny. Have you ever heard of someone throwing a jubilee? And if you did, would you go? Because I wouldn't. My objection is that Jubilee isn't a name-it's some kind of a party. You probably think I have heard the call of the pole. I realize Jubilee is a bit of a stripper name. The first story starts with about three paragraphs of rambling about how Jubilee (who's the whiny narrator for the story) is such a strippery name although she certainly has nothing against strippers. No, I'm saying a well written character should have a personality that extends further than feeling sorry for your name all the time. I'm not saying everybody has to be confident and perfect all the time. Offence #1: Self deprecating main character Here's five reasons why Let it Snow is sentenced to a one star rating.īut first, it must be acknowledged that I did not suffer this re-read alone but was assisted by the traitor, This probably would have gotten four stars if she hadn't written the final chapter and left me with the bad taste. Any wit and subtlety that the other two authors created, she destroyed. Also, the last chapter tied up all three of the stories and she massacred all of the characters from the other stories. The entire thing was, admittedly, about the fact that she was a self-absorbed whiny brat and everyone was calling her on that fact, but her supposed transformation was utterly ridiculous. Her main character was a self-absorbed whiny brat and I was stuck in her first person pea brained narrative for the entire thing. Lauren Myracle's was so terrible and I hated every minute. I usually love him, so I was disappointed. Also, the cheerleader thing got really old, really fast. They attempted to reach Buffy-level snark and sarcasm and really didn't make it. He kept referring to them as oh-so-clever, but they really weren't. I wanted to like it more, but I guess I am not that adventurous, because I kept thinking that the characters were such massive idiots, but their idiotic actions were the only thing that created a plot. I liked Jubilee a lot, crazy as she was, and was amused to see a lot of my mother in Stuart's. Maureen Johnson's story was super quirky and giggly and slightly ridiculous (in a good way). Maureen Johnson was fun, John Green all right and Lauren Myracle dismal. It started off strong and got progressively weaker. They still keep a video blog, now called "The Vlog Brothers," which can be found on the Nerdfighters website, or a direct link here. In 2007, John and his brother Hank were the hosts of a popular internet blog, " Brotherhood 2.0," where they discussed their lives, books and current events every day for a year except for weekends and holidays. The film rights for all his books, with the exception of Will Grayson Will Grayson, have been optioned to major Hollywood Studios. Green has also coauthored a book with David Levithan called Will Grayson, Will Grayson, published in 2010. The book also topped the New York Times Children's Paperback Bestseller list for several weeks. The praise included rave reviews in Time Magazine and The New York Times, on NPR, and from award-winning author Markus Zusak. In January 2012, his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars, was met with wide critical acclaim, unprecedented in Green's career. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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