In Which Your Input Is Sought
1. Over at nerdfighters.com, we've been reading Paper Towns for the Nerdfighter Blurbing Book Club. I'm going to make a video next week in which I answer questions about the book; if you have any, please leave them in comments.
2. 2009 will see some changes in the kind of content featured here (I'm going to continue posting a lot of text, but will probably also post more videos about books). Is there anything you'd like to see more? (Or less?) Let me know.
3. Since no one disagreed with my post on Octavian, I will assume everyone who reads sparksflyup agrees with me. Dissenters this is your last chance to explain yourselves!
3. That is all. I've gotta go
posted by John Green @ Wednesday, December 24, 2008
78 Comments
78 Comments:
1. I have no questions. Everything I've wondered has been answered in some way already. That blogtv show you did a few days ago was really, really great.
2. Awesome! Just today, I was rewatching and rereading the videos and ning discussion about Catcher in the Rye and was hoping we'd be able to do more stuff like that, so this is perfect.
3. I got both volumes of Octavian from the library last week, so I'll get back to you on that.
3. Heheh.
- Question regarding Paper Towns: do we think of the characters as archetypes such as the nerdy teenage boy and the manic pixie dream girl because that's what they are or because of our own limited perception?
- Regarding Sparks Fly Up: in your books you write a lot about poetry and betray the fact that it's a major interest of yours, I'm sort of getting into it myself so it'd be cool to see what you think it awesome.
- I didn't disagree about Octavian because I never read it, in fact I hadn't heard of it, is it released in the UK?
- Could you save the international economy as well? kthnx
my question: What is the significance of the dead guy in Paper Towns?
No! Wait! Argh! Eek! I've only just ordered Paper Towns!
1a. What is you're view of Margo?
1b. Why does Q pose such a dramatic change in character after Margo leaves? Does he honestly "love" her, or does he just want an adventure?
1c. Authors mainly base the ideas of a book off of real life experiences, what are your's that influeneced paper towns?
No questions, John.
I do appreciate your comments about the creative process as well as your critiques of other YA novels and would like to see more. In fact, I'd love to see comments and critiques from other YA authors here as well as appropriate links to sites which include similar content. Keep up the good work here ... but try not to put off writing your next novel TOO long, okay?
I didn't read Ocatvian Nothing 2. I own, I got it signed, it's an ARC, but I haven't read it. So I can't disagree with you. But I can't say what is the best book of the year in my opinion yet because it's not the 31st yet. That's when I make my decisions. So far though, I'm going with Hurt Go Happy, even though I'm not sure it came out this year.
Whys is Q chronically late?
What does the random capitalization that Margo utilizes symbolize? I tried to decode it... that didn't work.
John, everyone's talking about this blogtv thing but I don't know how to find it! Is there still a way to see it?? If anyone else knows, tell me please!
1. Have Nerdfighters already submitted their Paper Towns blurbs? Can I submit my Paper Towns blurb?
2. I want to hear more poetry read and discussed by you!
You read poetry better that Garrison Keillor!!
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make a video about The Book Thief.
1. The first time Margo visits Q at night, he stares at her through the screen. By the second time, his window is screenless. At what point did he remove it, and why?
2. I definitely agree with more poetry. I don't know if I really want more videos on the blog, but I think I'm alone on that. As long as there is still lots of text, I can't get too upset.
3. Still haven't read them (shame, I know), but they're on my To Read list. I'll update when I get around to them.
3. It took me 34 minutes to get out of the parking lot at the mall by my house. I hope your shopping trip is more pleasant.
1. I'm sure I'll come up with some questions and drop them here - I just need to look through my copy and read over my many annotated qs from my third read through.
2. More videos about books! More videos about books! And poets. And plays. And Shakespeare. Lots about Shakespeare. <3 Will.
3. I sold an Octavian the other day and it made me very happy. Also, a girl bought LFA and Just Listen and a Chris Wooding book (Storm Thief) instead of Twilight on the same day. Not, of course that I have anything against Twilight.
3. Save it! Save it! And then save ours. I did some saving myself today.
I have had this question forever, and I was going to ask you when you came on tour, but I couldn't go. So:
Can you please explain the "shape" of your novels?
That has been on my mind ever since I saw the 8/8/08 video's.
As for the video's, I love hearing you guys talk about books, I find it surprisingly enjoyable.
Can't argue over Octavian yet. It's next in line to read, but The Book Thief is taking me longer than usual, what with the holiday celebrations and so on. And I'll confess that Octavian might get booted down a notch in the list; Obama's Challenge might come next.
Let's continue the book club! Let us know what book you want to discuss a couple of weeks in advance, so we have time to read it :-)
Merry Christmas!
1. Not necessarily about Paper Towns per se, but do you ever find yourself living vicariously through your characters?
2. I'd definitely love to see more videos about books. Specifically, on Faulkner. I'm taking a class next semester about him and would love to hear your insights. Also, more scheduled BlogTV shows!
Hope you have a great holiday!
-Beth
John, like "anonymous" I would love to see a video about The Book Thief, the same way you did Catcher in the Rye. Im reading it now, and am 3/4 way through, and it is lovely.
As for your blog, I think it is safe to say that we all would like to know more about your day-to-day life. It is okay if you want to be a little more self-indulgent John, I can understand. :)
Merry Christmas.
1. A. Paper Towns. Was the ending always that ending or was it ever a different ending? aka alternative endings that didn't make the final cut.
B. You should hang out on the Ning more.
2. I enjoy John Green in both text and video form, and I like about books, but I also like reading about you and your life or the progress on writing.
3. I've yet to read Octavian, but I'm looking forward to reading it! The library needs to hurry up. That being said, I don't always agree with you...like, no one cares about TV anymore. I love TV. But that was a BlogTV topic, not here.
3. This was supposed to be 4. xD
I've never read Octavian Nothing, and so I can't comment whether or not I enjoyed the book, or really anything about the book at all. However since I took up my challenge to complete a certain number of books within a year, it's on my list.
I don't have any questions I need answered about Paper Towns, it's more of a matter of actually being able to find someone to discuss the book in length with. Q&A has happened. Discussion... has not.
As far as what I would like to see more of here... Well, I like your idea of talking more about books here. There are never enough places on the internet it which to talk books.
I'm sure you would have some very interesting things to say about history!
It took me literally a year to get through the first Octavian Nothing. I'm sure it's a very good book (for all the reasons you mentioned) but I just hated reading it, to be honest. I don't plan to read the second volume.
you should make a vid. about "Lord of the Flies" and explain the significance of the rotten pigs head on the stake...that is something that has had my brain in a twist for some time now!
1. I don't really have any questions about Paper Towns, but can you tell us anything about the book you're working on now? And just wondering, how do you choose names for your characters?
2. I love this blog no matter what you do with it as long as you keep updating! Your wit and intelligence always brighten up my day.
3. I have Octavian on hold at my library!
Okay, since you're inviting dissent, here goes: I only got about a third of the way through the first Octavian book--it was beautifully written, so I appreciated it as a work of art, but there's only so long I can sit there staring at a beautiful piece of art before I get bored. One of the reasons I read so much YA even though I've technically been an adult for several years now and should be reading War and Peace or something equally weighty and Adult is that YA as a genre tends to avoid stylistic beauty for its own sake and focus more on entertaining the reader, and I read for entertainment. The reason I feel that Octavian isn't truly YA (by my definition) is that it, well, isn't entertaining on the same level as most YA. YA, in my opinion, should be fun. I did not have fun with Octavian.
1. Is Margot's request to close the window a reference to 1 Corinthians 13:12?
2. I love your textual posts, but I won't mind more video.
3. Give me a year so I can catch up on my reading...
3. Two part threes. Typical.
1. At the end, Margo said that she always felt that Robert Joyner's death was something that happened to her, but now she can see his life more completely. She buries her past, she learned her lesson. So how come she doesn't go back home at the end?
I wish I could love Octavian Nothing (1 AND 2), and I DID like them, but I didn't love them, and I cannot put ON 2 above all books 2008ish. Sorry, John. I am a dissenter.
I appreciate the vision of the books and was frequently moved by some of the episodes and events, but I never felt submerged in Octavian's world either emotionally or intellectually. I think Anderson's choice of the extremely rigid and precise period diction was part of my trouble. The book felt COLD to me, and I know enough backstory history and philosophy to at least limp along with it.
When I hear folks say, "I am not sure ON is for teens," I don't think that particular critical trope was about "teens don't like to read hard things" or "teens don't like to read 'downer' books." The book makes a lot of demands of the reader--that's OK, and I am sure MTA was being purposeful about that, but sometimes a book makes TOO many, and the reader is justified in saying, "Ok, whatever" and putting the book down. Which I did, repeatedly, with both volumes of ON. I always came back, but honestly, I felt like I had to.
I am not sure if that is cogent at all. . . it is my rapid-reaction, but I think I stand by it.
My choice of BEST BOOK of 2008--Terry Pratchett's Nation--my first Pratchett, too.
I also sent you an email about this, but here's my question about Paper Towns:
In your video on Catcher, you explained that there is the Holden who the story is happening to and there is the Holden that is telling the story. But in Paper Towns, how many Quentins are there? In the parts where it is past tense, I start thinking there are two Qs, the one who the story is happening to and the Q who is telling the story. But then there are the parts in present tense, when Q is telling the story as it happens. Does the narrator Q, who is telling the story some time in the future, already know that Margo will be found?
I'm excited for the changes. Merry Christmas, John and Sarah!
Though Q can't understand Matgo perfectly, is he right in the scene where he thinks Margo felt alone when she wasn't being adventuresome and MPDG-esque?
I found so many connections between the characters in An Abundance of Katherines and Looking for Alaska (smart kids struggling to integrate in the world at large) I honestly wondered if the main characters might have attended the same school. Do you think connections exist between your other works and Papertowns? If so, could you expound on why that is (other than the similarities in authorship, I mean).
Also, do you find writing for a girl lead easier, more difficult, or the same as writing a guy leading character?
Paper Towns question: Q says a couple times that he wanted to change, or feel changed, from his night with and search for Margo, but he still felt the same.
Did he want to change for Margo, and not for himself, and that's why he never felt any different? Also, when is it ok to change for other people and when is it just lying to yourself?
I haven't read ON, but I'm making a library trip after Christmas, so I'll pick it up then.
I trust that you'll keep doing great things with this site, so no major suggestions... as long as you keep updating!
Have a very merry Christmas and an Awesome New Year. =]
This isn't related to the blog really, but I was wondering if you would be doing any events soon because I missed you during your book tour unfortunately. I live in Atlanta area and would love to meet you. Thanks so much and merry Christmas!
I bought the first volume of Octavian Nothing, but I got busy with school and couldn't really read it. After I finish all of the other books I have in my reading list, I'll get to it. I hope it's awesome.
And in relation to Paper Towns, my mom has put up an insane amount of black Santa stuff this year (she's not a hardcore collector, but we still have A LOT of them), including this creepy cookie jar of just his head. It used to sit in the middle of the kitchen table where we eat, but my dad took it off since it was really creepy to look at.
More videos about books is a pretty amazing idea. Every book that I have read because of your recommendation (The Book Thief, Octavian Nothing, 13 Little Blue Envelopes... and of course your books :-D), I have loved, and I would love to have more suggestions from you and discussions with nerdfighters about them. Yay literature!
Is living next to Margo really Q's miracle, or does he just think it is?
I'd like to see more of the quizzes/surveys you sometimes do. I like the insight it gives me into my favourite author's life :]
Wait, that sounds really nosey.
Best wishes! ^_^
I have three questions about papertowns!
1. SO theirs happy margo cover and sad margo cover are there alternate endings or just different covers! (i bought happy margo btw its my favorite book ever!)
2. So margo is a real person right. Did you two actually meet when you were young or is the story fictional.
3. where did you get the name for quentin?
1. Paper Towns Question: Why did you have Ben insist on calling women "honeybunnies"? Was there an underlying reason there?
2. I'm a fan of reading your textual blog the way it is. I don't know if you've heard this, but you're a pretty fantastic writer. Even in blog form.
3. I'm going to start Octavian Nothing once I finish Realm of Possibility (which is amazing).
3. Good luck with that!
1. you already answered my question when i met you, but i will ask it again in case you want to put it in your video...
are the arrows margo and q?
2. crime and punishment...because i think you should read it.
3. i just started reading octavian yesterday...
1. I agree with Serenamina in that we need to discuss Paper Towns, because most of our questions have been answered on the Tour de Nerd or on Blog TV.
2. I have not yet read Octavian Nothing but it's on my list, I promise. And as for what I want t see more on here is poetry! I enjoy poetry a lot even though I fail at writing poetry, I love it and wish you'd blog and vlog about it more.
Merry Christmas! :)
Something I'd like to see more of on the blog are entries like the Octavian one. YA has been disappointing lately, and I've almost given up on finding anything worthwhile, so any recommendations (YA or other) would be appreciated. As well as more poetry, please.
1) How did the ending of Papertowns come to be? How does an author decide when and where to end a story?
2) I'm happy with anything. :)
3) My parents just got me an 100 dollar gift card to our local books store (*happy dances*) and I will get Octavian this Saturday.
1) Another question I forgot! Margo Roth Spiegleman's name reflected her, but does Q's? Is there a significance to the simplicity of Q's name and the complexity of Margo's?
1) What is your favorite part in Paper towns?
2) I'm glad your updating your blog, I just hope more videos on the site doesn't cause my school to block sparksflyup...they block any image. technically we aren't supposed to be on this site because it's not "school related", even on break or after school. They're a bit paranoid. :-/
3) I haven't read Octavian Nothing, but I just got a B&N gift card, and I think that's what I'll buy with it.
By the way, on an unrelated note, I got a black santa today for Christmas. :)
I have just one question. When the boys are in the van on the way to the stripmall, which mountain goats song are they singing?
Ad 2: Some people have already said that they'd like to see more videos about books. What I specifically enjoy are your book recommendations. I just finished Frankie Landau-Banks (so awesome! loved it!), I'm reading Exit Ghost at the moment (like it, although it's quite a challenge, English not being my native language), and I've already ordered Octavian Nothing. I probably wouldn't have come across any of these books without you talking about them.
Paper Towns question (somewhat long explanation, sorry):
Somewhere down along the very long list of things I love about the book is the fact that Q reads Ovid. I take Latin, and though I feel guilty about not knowing a modern language yet I love the language and literature and the whole idea of knowledge for its own sake (because everyone thinks that reading ancient poetry is impractical). Did you take Latin? Anyway, this seems very irrelevant but it's partly why I'm asking this question.
I was so blown away by Paper Towns I reread it right away. And the second time, I was really struck by the scene where Margo gets bit by the snake. It reminded me of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, which I especially love Rilke's version of. I realized that the whole book could be loosely seen as within that framework. She is taken from him - not through fate but through her own will - just when they begin to redevelop some sort of a relationship. And she is, from his point of view, lost in the underworld; he actually thinks she is dead. She has gone to the world of the paper towns, and he is willing to follow her despite all the dangers and obstacles. The idea of comparing Q to Orpheus is laughable in light of his terrible tone-deafness, but he does seem to see Margo at first as the helpless, beautiful, one-dimensional Eurydice - a classic damsel-in-distress. But she is an actual person who makes her own decisions, and despite the fact that Q follows her into her new world he is unable to bring her back. Because, like Orpheus, he looks at her - because instead of focusing simply on his own world, the outside world he lives in, he looks at her. And he sees her. And Margo never needed saving, not even from the snake. But the ending had the same bittersweetness as the end of Orpheus; she might have come with him, or he might have stayed, but they must go in separate directions. Just as Orpheus gives up a woman he though he owned, Q gives up all the images he attached to Margo. And she is free. In a way the snake incident, which seems so random at the time, foreshadows all of this, shows that their relationship can't last. At least this way my thinking.
So my question, more simply is: was the snake a deliberate allusion to the story of Orpheus and Eurydice? I'm probably reading into the text way too much, but I wanted to know if this was a conscious decision on your part or it's just me making it up.
I'd like to see more book discussion type videos; I really enjoyed your Catcher in the Rye vlogs!
Hank's songs are always awesome, but I'd like to see you sing them sometime too~
:D
1. I had a lot of questions, but I forgot them all - so I'll just say that I loved Paper Towns and thought it was your best yet.
2. Oh, huzzah (sans sarcasm). I do like books. I can't think of anything I'd like to see more of (specifically speaking), but I would just like, you know, more*.
3. I haven't read it yet, but M.T. Anderson is rather awesome. I do have to say, though, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks was remarkably wondrous.
*Although, this is coming from a 15-year-old relatively bored American teenager who doesn't really have anything to do. So I understand that you are not a bored American teenager with nothing to do, and your frequency of posting reflects that.
What is Ruthie's function in the novel as Margo's sister? I noticed that she is not being mis-imagined and my own interpretation of her character is that she seems grounded and mature even though she is the youngest. So, did she have a specific role as a minor character pertinent to the themes of the novel, or is she just a filler?
I think more videos about books is a great idea!
1) Paper Towns Query: Why are the majority of male figures in YA literature (including Q) so amazing even with their major flaws: Charlie in Perks of Being a Wallflower, Zach in Impossible (which I am reading now) and the main character (his name alludes me) from I Am the Messanger? Both male and female writers do this in the genre. The guys in adult literature are extremely messed up.
2) I love the text on this blog. I am not a reader on the computer but I make myself stare at my glaring computer screen to read your entries. Book reviews would be sweet. By the way the post you made on The New Yorker website about that YA review they did was right on target. Why does no one ( a teen)question the merit of adult literature?
3) I started reading Octavian Nothing when I was in high school and did not finish it. I was a dumbass. I hope I am a tad bit smarter now to finish it.
1.) When you're writing Margo or Lindsay or Alaska or The Duke, do you solicit advice from women? Because I have to tell you, Alaska sounded like a guy (to me), Lindsay sounds like a guy's ideal of a gal, The Duke is written to be man-like (Tobin even says he thinks of her as a guy!), and Margo is the first character that sounds/feels/acts (to me) like a girl...although she still has those masculine characteristics. I mean, I get that you're a man putting yourself in the place of a teenage girl, but are teenage girls really that androgynous and I just missed it? Because most of the teenage girls I know are ridiculously female in comparison.
2.) Dude, it's a blog. Go media crazy all over it. Write it, tape it, draw it. I'm up for anything.
3.) I'm working on a list. I'll add it to the list of resolutions for '09.
4.) Frokinp - the forked pik that you use to break up catnip before you dust your cat's bed.
Captcha Dictionary FTW!
I agree with basically everyone else.
I love book talk (book suggestions,book reviews, im up for it all)
I just went through all the comments and I have to say there are a lot of good questions, which is why I will not be posting one of my own.
(oh and Octavian is on my 'to read' list.)
3.(The First, because as for 3 The Second--Of course you have to go save the American economy!)
Octavian Nothing Vol. I is a Great Book. There's no doubt in my mind there. I can't call it the best book of the year, because I didn't love it. I read it. I admire not only the work that went into it, but M.T. Anderson's ability to maintain a consistent historical style, which very few modern authors have ever done. It's a story we all need to know. But I don't love it. I don't want to re-read it. I don't particularly want to read the second volume.
Also, I don't think it is a book ONLY for teens. It should be a crossover book, for all the adults who like to read history and historical fictiton. But crossovers don't tend to work in that direction.
I would love to see more videos on books. I read voraciously! I've also loved watching the discussions happening on blogtv, although my one complaint is you listed book recommendations so fast! I'm a fast writer, but I was scribbling to keep up!
So...yeah. More book discussions, book recommendations. And I've added Octavian to my reading list, which is getting longer by the minutes.
Mt friend, Marcy, and I have a goal to read at least 100 books in 2009 and 50 new authors, and will be blogging about the books on LiveJournal. I think you should set this as a challenge for the Nerdfighters, and we can blog about them on the ning, which I intend to do anyway. I think it would be a cool nerdfighter project! Also, Marcy gets the credit for the 100 book goal.
1. cow? and dead guy? youve probaly already discussed them. i probably wasn't paying attention
2. book discussions are good. more videos about books are good
3. i have yet to read octavion nothing. so i can neither agree or disagree
Random question: How do you feel about the Amazon Kindle. My parents asked me if I wanted one for Christmas and I wasn't sure. It feels a little like betrayal to me not to own a solid copy of something that I can hold in my hands and mark up however I want.
Question: Do you have any new books coming out soon enough so I don't die of waiting?
Question: What do the characters in _Paper Towns_ look like because I might make it into a movie for my English class.
:3
Here is my PT question: What came first, Margo leaving hints to her whereabouts on the Omnictionary or you and Hank leaving scavenger hunt clues on Wikipedia?
Actually, I don't think Octavian Nothing is this year's best book...it's Paper Towns!
(Please do keep the text in your blog; I love reading it!)
I loved the irony that Margo had complete disdain for people planning out their lives (going to college, getting married, etc.) even though she holed up and spent all her time planning relatively insignificant escapades. How many things like that are planned out at the beginning and how many do you get ideas for while you are writing the book?
1a. In the novel, Margo brings up the idea that life has been more or less over at age thirty for the majority of the time the human race has been around. Was writing Paper Towns--and LfA and AAOK--a type of reflection for you upon your younger years and your perception of the future?
1b. Would you agree with the opinion that you have written the modern day Great Gatsby? (You should.)
2. If you ever take up writing short stories for kicks, then most definitely post those. Otherwise, whatever you post is awesome as always.
I enjoy that there are two threes.
1a. What was Margo seeing when she stared past Q the last night he saw her so many years ago?
1b. We don't all have Margos in our lives -- and by Margo I mean the original misrepresentation that spurs the novel on -- so to those of us who need a little life put into our paper selves, a little help getting out of our bell jars, what do you suggest?
1c. If Margo gave you the chance to add on something to the to-do list of That Night, what would you do?
Thanks! for Paper Towns, for yourself, for your blog, and for your awesome.
A question for you John that isn't related to Paper Towns:
Why is it that you read so much YA Literature and you are thirty-some? I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but I just want to know some reasoning behind this. Do you read it because you enjoy it? Or because you write YA literature yourself so you need to know what's going on in other YA novels? Or is it because you can relate more to it than adult fiction? How do you compare young adult and adult fiction?
Thanks,
Ellie.
1a. Why did you cut out the quote from Howl from the final prologue? I understand you probably had limited control over that edit and to point it out is nitpicking and such, but why? Is Q's love of poetry some sort of symbol of his growth? Did you not want Q to like poetry from the beginning?
1b. Again nitpicking. But was there any significance to the pseudonyms of Gus's friends, Ace and the Carpenter?
1c. Do you think that the reason people find Margo and Alaska similar is because the relationship between Miles and Alaska and the relationship between Q and Margo is similar? Similar infatuation with someone they do not/cannot understand?
1d. When Q is little he wants to be an inventor. Do you think he achieves this goal by becoming an inventor of people and imagining others?
2. *Happy dance* But more text than video please.
3. I liked Octavian. I can't really complain. I feel like I need to reread it to really understand it. But I do remember my initial reaction was that it should be taught in schools. There was something definitively wonderful about it.
Yes, please make more videos about books! I find it really hard to read analytically since I don't have enough knowledge about symbolism to realise/understand references (all my school subjects were science based).
Have you considered making a sequel to paper towns? I find myself wondering a lot as to what happens to both of them in the future.
Granted, I haven't read Octavian 2, but my pick for best book is Graceling by Kristin Cashore. It's the kind that grabs you and glues your eyeballs to the page until it's done.
While reading Paper Towns, I kept noticing how much Ben Starling reminded me of Ronald Weasley. This has nothing to do with their personalities or appearance, rather that in Harry Potter, Ron is always the character who says something jokingly and ends up making some major revelation. Throughout Paper Towns, Ben seems to have the most wisdom of everyone (along with Radar) about how to perceive Margo. What validity do you think that this character archetype has in the real world? Is it always the smart ones who are too blind to see what is right in front of them?
Thanks, I'm so excited for this video!
-paigingbrenna
P.S. My captcha was "nonturi", which I propose should be added to the NF captcha dictionary as the antonym for "volturi," which is an Italian vampire army.
I'd like to see more conversations between you and your younger self.
1. This is a stupid question but...Which of your characters do you think would be most likely to be a nerdfighter? (Does that make sense?..xD)
2. I'd like to see you discuss your books a lot more in video form. xD
3. Well,I couldn't dissagree with you because I have never actually read Octavian Nothing...but I did get it at Barnes and Noble two days ago because of you. xD I'm going to read it right after Feed.
3. :) (Ahem....two threes..xD)
o.0 My captcha is proarkeb...that could be in the captcha dictionary...hmm. xD
I have no questions, but I must admit that I'm pulling for Paper Towns to be the Printz winner this year for my own benefit... my YA lit class requires to read the Printz winner, and otherwise I won't have time to re-read it until the semester has wrapped up. ;)
Best wishes!
1.) I have two questions about Paper Towns, the first of which is not really about the literature itself as much as the text within the book.
a) How many words are there in Paper Towns?
b) Are your leading characters in your novels a representation of someone you have been or would like to be?
c) Do you build your plot formula (nerdy guy on edge of social circle meets amazing girl that ultimately teaches him something about himself) on something you would like to happen to yourself/something that has happened to you?
2.) I would like to see more projects for the Nerdfighters to get involved with and I would also like to see more book club videos and some analysis of the book once the deadline for reading the book has been met rather than just jumping straight to blurbs. (I probably ask this because my english teacher focuses on how to pass tests and submit acceptable coursework rather than the real essence of english literature and language. (The great pitfall of the westernised education system.))
3.) I have never even heard of the books but I will certainly look for them in Waterstones the next time I pass by one.
I would like to hear more about books. Really just more English teaching because when you teach us it doesn't sound stupid and unrelatable.
Also, two threes? Really?
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