Posts tagged The Fault In Our Stars
Kelsey. 23. Kittens. Dance. Television. Iowa. Nerdfighter. <3
Free! No Catch, The site mentioned in The Fault in Our Stars.
Here’s my two cents on nerdfighter-related art.
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The Fruit in our Stomachs
featuring Hazel Grape and Augustus Watermelons
by John Green Apple
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Photo Credit: Untitled by milesbower
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Life is Weird. Also beautiful.
In which John Green describes his years-long relationship with Ransom Riggs, author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, which began with the James Joyce novel Ulysses and now includes the top two spots of the new York Times bestseller list.
A little bit of brain crack after reading TFIOS. An Imperial Affliction book cover. (x)
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I just received word that The Fault in Our Stars will be #1 on the New York Times bestseller list for the third consecutive week (i.e., the 2 in the above screenshot will become a 3). This is exciting for obvious reasons, but also for maybe less-obvious ones:
1. The first week, obviously, the book was on top because of the many kind souls among you who preordered the book with no certainty that it would be any good. I hoped that I would not disappoint you, but of course I worried I might. The critical response to the book—from Booklist to the New York Times to the Washington Post to NPR—has been phenomenal, but the real success of a book is whether the people who buy it and borrow it from their libraries like it enough to recommend it to their friends. That the book is still reaching so many new readers three weeks after its publication indicates that many of you are recommending TFiOS and sharing it with your friends, which honestly means more to me than any of the other really wonderful and surprising things that have happened in the last three weeks.
2. It is so weird and magical to be on the same bestseller list as my old friend Ransom Riggs, who I’ve known since we were teenagers and who shared an independent study with me and a couple other friends in which we read James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Ransom is truly an eccentric genius, which is about the highest compliment I can pay someone.
Why does this guy come in at 7:30 every morning, cry for four hours, and then leave?
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I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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I couldn’t shake the post-TFIOS melancholy so I designed some book covers for An Imperial Affliction by Peter Van Houten.
It kind of helped.
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John Green Talks The Fault in Our Stars on The Interview Show
Novelist John Green returned to The Interview Show, hosted by Mark Bazer, at The Hideout, in Chicago, to talk his new book, “The Fault in Our Stars,” passing through the red-light district in Amsterdam on the way to the library and lots more. The interview took place Jan. 6, 2012, four days before the release of the new book.
Spoilers: There are dirty words! It’s great! Check out John’s past appearances on The Interview Show here and here.
JUST TO BE VERY CLEAR: This interview was done in front of ADULTS, and so I used some NAUGHTY WORDS. Do not watch it if you do not want to hear me swear.
Oh and there are some (although not huge) SPOILERS, so bear that in mind as well.
To be clear!!!
I have not read a single post on tumblr with an accurate spoiler. So don’t feel like the book has been spoiled for you or whatever.
But the IDEA that people are intentionally trying to shape other people’s reading experiences really bothers me. Why would you do that? How does it help you? What purpose does it serve? In what way is it entertaining? The whole affair strikes me (to be perfectly frank) as outrageously childish and selfish and immature in the manner of the kid who gloats about secret knowledge of the Truth about Santa or whatever.
If you’re old enough to type, you should be old enough and mature enough to acknowledge the reality and significance of other people, and that—to use a crass metaphor—just as you wouldn’t want them pissing in your drinking water, maybe you ought not piss in theirs.
This just seems so overwhelmingly obvious to me that when I see people on the Internet fail to show that basic level of human decency—the acknowledgment that other people are real and their feelings are significant—I get very sad. This happens a lot on the Internet, of course, but we nerdfighters are really fortunate that it almost never happens in our community.
So when it does—even when the spoiler is false—it’s just shocking and disappointing.
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