Will Grayson, Will Grayson

[jade_sabre]

Aside from the fact where the very end of it contained a popular fiction occurrence that has an inversely proportional occurrence rate in reality (i.e., all the time to almost never),

I laughed

I sniffled

it moved me, Bob.

p.s. I like John Green's writing better than David Leviathan's, but the two styles really balanced well together.

ALSO APPARENTLY WE HAVE CORAMBIS JUST SITTING AROUND MY HOUSE, WHAT, WHY DID I NOT KNOW THIS, /READS IMMEDIATELY.

Comments

[farens.livejournal.com]

I read it a few days after it came out because I <3 John Green anything and I LOVED IT. I cried and got all anxious which is what happens when I care too much about the characters. I loved both Will Graysons and still don't know which one I like more. It was really an excellent book, and was well done. I agree about not liking David Levithan's style as much as John Green's, but thy did work well, all things considered. I'm glad you liked it!

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

ALTHOUGH FARENS I had an epiphany today which is that John Green needs to write more nerd girls, i.e. he needs to write more than one nerd girl per book in which that one nerd girl is also the MC's eventual girlfriend, because a) nerd girls are awesome b) nerd girls deserve friends who are also nerd girls c) Jane kind of disappeared, or at least stopped having fun cool nerdy lines, after she and Will got their act together. COME ON JOHN GREEN, YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN THAT.

[farens.livejournal.com]

I KNOW, RIGHT? That part did rather annoy me, how Jane turned into just...girlfriend instead of awesome nerdy girl after she and Will got together. I agree! But then again, John Green PWNS at writing nerd girls--perhaps he will slip more than one into his next book...that has something to do with a desert island, apparently...

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

IT IS A SLIP, I WILL FORGIVE HIM, BUT WE MUST BE VIGILANT. He's good at writing nerd girls, but I wish there was someone out there who wrote nerd girls the way he writes nerd boys--like, the characters in An Abundance of Katherines were so exactly like the nerd boys I knew in high school, down to the thought processes, and I wish someone could capture nerd girls from the same POV.

/can't write real-world YA fiction to save her life

[farens.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read Looking for Alaska? I found I liked that one more than An Abundance of Katherines--although that one was still wonderfully done and enjoyable. I guess John Green finds it more comfortable to write nerd boys who fall in love with nerd girls? Perhaps that's why he persists in nerd boy POV.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Really? 'cause I definitely felt the other way around. And I liked how he resolved the issues in Paper Towns (esp. those issues that had also popped up in LFA and AAOK), but I still liked the guys in AAOK better. I did love the part where LFA was set in Alabama and I knew exactly where all the places he mentioned were.

Oh, I don't mind that he writes from nerd boy POVs--I love it to pieces--he can go right on doing that--he just needs more nerd girl characters so the nerd girls can have nerd girl friends. And then someone else with a talent for writing nerd girls in as realistic a way as JG writes nerd boys needs to start writing books. :D