I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time string band...
...is probably my favorite current lyric (OCMS's "Wagon Wheel," which can be heard--prepare yourselves for a myspace plug--
posted by John Green @ Tuesday, November 08, 2005
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11 Comments:
i prefer the part where he says, "rock me mama like the wind and the rain; rock me mama like a south-bound train..."
I love that whole album.
Hi there....I saw your story in the Orlando Sentinel and it caught my eye. I was struck by the sentence that mentioned you had no girlfriend in Orlando. I was your girlfriend in fifth grade, and into sixth grade until you broke up with me cause I moved (or whatever). I suppose that I did not make much of an impact on you, then, huh? Well, while I admit that hurt a bit to read, I guess it makes for a better story.
Anyway, it was pretty cool to read about someone I knew, even though I don't really know you anymore. Um, hmmm....I am not an official blogger, so I guess I have to post as anonymous, but you can find me on LiveJournal- I am Maggie226. It would be kinda cool to hear from you.
You give me too much credit...it wasn't GWTW, it was Little Women and the related books. I just finished Gone With the Wind recently cause I realized I had never read it and wondered what all the fuss was about. (Which, if you have only seen the movie, makes sense....the book is-as usual- way better than the movie and it makes more sense and the characters are more relatable. All of that.) Anyway, I sent you an email so we didn't have to keep commenting to communicate, so write me back at that address if you want.
Maggie
john green, i knew all that stuff about never having a girlfriend was bs. i mean, how many other "not-girlfriends" do you have? tens? hundreds?
In my English class we are reading all the books on this list for an award. You're book happened to be on this list. So I read 3 out of the 5 others (the list is 10 but we only have 5 to read for this semester of school) saving your book and another book about the civil war for last. Before researching the books I just read the title "Looking For Alaska" and thought oh great another Jon Krakauer wanna-be.. well I hated his book and I'll just save this for last and read all these other ones first. I picked up your book at the book store yesterday. I started your book last night and only stopped to sleep, and then woke up today and read the entire thing. I.. I.. I have never read something as amazing as this book. Seriously, there are few things I think are worthy of pausing life and not caring about homework, or -- well anything. Yet this book made nothing matter, anything in life could wait. Alaska and Pudge, ah just amazing. I love books where it's easy to play what is going on in your mind while you are reading them. I think this book is just exquisite and amazing. I haven't been able to declare a book to be "my favorite" since I was about 9, but I want to thank you for writing my favorite book. I hated finishing it, because it meant there was nothing left to read, and hope you will some day write another.
Searching for the Great Perhaps,
Danielle.
I am in Chicago every July. (Pampered Chef convention) Maybe we can go get coffee or something while I am there next year? Catch up and all that...
Anyway, I am about to start the "after" section of your book....dude, you are an amazing author. I seriously stayed up til 4am reading and only put it down cause it was so late.
So when I see you in Chicago (if it all works out) can I get the famous author to sign my copy of the book? (Well, I still actually have to buy it...I confess, I am a big library fan. But it has become tradition to have breakfast at the Borders on Michigan Ave one day while I am there, so I can pick up a copy in Chicago!)
Ok, so I just spent the last, well, several hours chronologically (a compulsion that annoys me)reading all of your blog. I am now going through John Green withdrawal. This worries me as it doesn't sound as though Katherines will be in my hands anytime soon. Argh. Post something new, eh? Thanks. (demanding, aren't I, sorry about that).
I wish I was your girlfriend from fifth grade and into sixth grade. Sadly, I don't think I was born then...The internet is constantly blowing my mind. Finding old girlfriends? Crazy. Wikipeida? Amazing. This blog? Incredible. Just wanted to let you know that my favorite OCMS lyric "I know I'm not colorful but a bird just the same." Brilliance. Almost much brilliant your book(s). By the way, I'm always in John Green Withdrawal. I my vision goes in and out and get the shakes real bad...If you need someone else to listen to you haven't already discovered him, you must listen to Sufjan Stevens. I forgot my initial purpose for writing this. Sorry.
Seconding the Sufjan Stevens reccomendation. Listen to his new album "Illinois"; it's absolutely mind-blowing in it's amazing-ness and originality.
Also...you need to update again!
i know this isn't in response to this post but a previous one, but also i should make my commment here so ppl can read it. someone before said that there should be a sequel. I am sorry but that seems really stupid. Looking For Alaska had about as much closure as any book can so to make a sequel would butcher it. I don't think books about hte meaning of existence like this one usually serve well for sequels--rather action, mystery, sci fi, that type of stuff lends itself to sequels. Anyways, yeah, this book is amazing.
1) The way the chapters were arranged--really made me wonder what the countdown was to and how central that event was to the entire book.
2) i couldn't believe it when you know what in case anyone hasn't read the book yet-- but yeah i was as taken back as Miles and wow. i actually felt it in my stomach, cursing under my breath thinking "how could John Green do this!! it's doesn't make sense!" I wanted to see you know what happened just like alaska promised. And so in short, i not only related to the protagonist, but i felt his emotion. one of the most realistic love stories i've ever heard or read. what else... oh yeah, how i loved the way you got to read miles's thoughts behind every action, the way he wanted to make an impression with everything he did and just the way his thinking worked, it was exactly how my mind works (and possibly all adolescent guys) you could really say teh book was like two separate parts--before and after. before was like just the great story of life and how the little things are enough to make life matter and then the second is the deep, heavy, melancholy approach to the issues of the labrinth. so i guess the first part is about the great perhaps and its joys nad the second is about the labrynth.
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