I Am What I Am
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also seasons 2 and 3 of game of thrones but i want to finish the first book before i start that
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3108820
the title of this thread made it out to seem much more interesting than it actually was
i feel like people severely overestimate the amount of influence these boards have on real life
i haven't read any of john green's books but the way tumblr goes on and on about them makes me not want to read them
aw man i would have joined that thread.agreed.
& I was hoping that was going to be a thread full of grumpy old people and would have been an entertaining read.
I read Looking For Alaska a few weeks ago and while it wasn't that bad, it had "HELLO I AM A DEBUT YOUNG ADULT NOVEL" written alll over it.
It had the necessary introspective narrator with a quirky interest, a kindred spirit with whom said narrator waxes philosophical and their first conversation sets up said quirky interest as a metaphor for the plot, ending with a monologue explaining the metaphor for anyone too dumb to not catch it in the first five pages.
(basically if Phinny from A Separate Peace was a manic-depressive pixie dream girl)
but maybe I've just gotten too cynical for YA novels
the whole nerdfighter culture weirds me out a lot.