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kareila_booksThis book, taken alongside An Abundance of Katherines, would seem to indicate that John Green has a mild obsession with different people who share the same name. I thought maybe the two Will Graysons would be confused with each other on Facebook, but the way they eventually become aware of each other is much more radically unlikely and amusing.
My main issue with every John Green book except The Fault in Our Stars (and why TFiOS represents such a quantum leap in his writing) is the unshakeable knowledge that he is his protagonist, no matter how much he tries to pretend otherwise. He was stuck on TFiOS for ten years until he realized he had to take himself (his experience as a chaplain for terminally ill children) out of the story.
On the other hand, John Green by any name is always a smart, funny, likable guy, and so are his friends.
He calls this his "big, gay book," and it is exactly that. But there's no bullying - some shit-talking, sure, but with no real heat or threat in it. It's like a utopian vision of what coming of age as a homosexual would be like if everyone in your community was pretty much okay with it: his personal version of "It Gets Better."
I read it with a grin on my face and a tear in my eye.
My main issue with every John Green book except The Fault in Our Stars (and why TFiOS represents such a quantum leap in his writing) is the unshakeable knowledge that he is his protagonist, no matter how much he tries to pretend otherwise. He was stuck on TFiOS for ten years until he realized he had to take himself (his experience as a chaplain for terminally ill children) out of the story.
On the other hand, John Green by any name is always a smart, funny, likable guy, and so are his friends.
He calls this his "big, gay book," and it is exactly that. But there's no bullying - some shit-talking, sure, but with no real heat or threat in it. It's like a utopian vision of what coming of age as a homosexual would be like if everyone in your community was pretty much okay with it: his personal version of "It Gets Better."
I read it with a grin on my face and a tear in my eye.
