full offense but John Green has written three entire books about whiny teenage boys realizing that they’ve been over-idealizing the women in their lives and that seeing women as stories or symbols instead of complex and autonomous people is a shitty thing to do so like… when are we going to stop pretending it’s fun and cool to make fun of John Green books
like I see SO MANY people talk about how JG is just writing wish fulfilment about girls be didn’t bang in high school or whatever but if you actually read Alaska or Paper Towns or Katherines you might notice that none of his male leads ever actually /get with/ any of the female leads in any real way
this post is 900% because some girl in my writing workshop, in this the year of 2017, just tried to say all of John Green’s books are “boy gets girl” when 1.) that’s blatantly untrue and 2.) his books can be better described as coming of age ft. contemplations of death/purpose/crushing suburban boredom depending on the book. and you can call him pretentious until you’re blue in the face, I really don’t care if that’s you’re opinion, but sweet Jesus WHY did it become so trendy to hate these books
anyway what I’m getting at here is that like 99% of complaints about John Green books sound like they’re coming from people who have never read an actual John Green book, or at least not with any understanding
