/lit/ - Literature

I haven't really used /lit/ since his newest book came out. What was the consensus?

>It was in mid-summer, when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odors of the soil and the vegetation.

obligatory

>Green attended Indian Springs School, a boarding and day school outside of Birmingham, Alabama. While he was enrolled there, a student died under circumstances similar to the character of Alaska.

Imagine being this girl's parents. Not only have you lost your little girl, but some cuck published his sexual fantasies about her, and it became a national bestseller.

What's /lit/s thoughts on John Green?

He looks a bit like the retarded freak I used to live next to as a kid. This takes me back to my most disturbing childhood memory.

>be 8/9 years old
>to the right of my house lives a divorced prick whose kids visit once every few months
>his FAS daughter is sort of friendly but kind of dumb
>his 10 year old son is a mentally challenged chubby midget and super violent (although he very much wanted to be my friend. I mostly acted friendly towards him and that kept him from biting me like he did with most kids on the street)
>to my left lives another divorced guy whose kids come over more often
>he has a son of about 11, a daughter of 9, and some disfigured 7 year old boy who was only physically challenged
>go over to the house on my house's left one day
>the 7 year old and FAS girl are playing in the living room
>dad is nowhere to be seen
>ask where the others are (the 11 year old was my best friend of the bunch)
>"they're upstairs"
>go upstairs
>hear crying
>enter the kids's bedroom
>the retarded freak is somehow raping the 9 year old girl with his 10 year old penis
>the 11 year old guy is sitting in a chair and is watching his sister getting raped
>the 11 year old is giving the retard directions
>walk away without them noticing me
>stop hanging out with those kids
>never mention it to anyone until this post

>>9951839
with 47 dicks dipped into it beforehand

For me it's Ayn Rand: intelligent, nihilistic, and with a wicked sense of humor

“Depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”

>ugly, awkward beta self-insert
>gets the girl

every time

In about 30 years, authors like John Green will be the subject of study of in academia, how does it feel, /lit/?

I thought you guys liked this guy. Why were you fooling around the whole time?

>He once wondered aloud to Franzen about whether his only purpose in life was “to put my penis in as many cheerios as possible”.

what did he mean by this?

Who is the John Green of the lifting community?

I know /lit/ hates John Green's prose, but is there anything wrong with the actual contents of his stories? Why does every teen girl love him?

>>9231018
How to Make America Great Again according to John Green:

Step 1. Raise taxes so we can give more money to other countries
Step 2. Raise taxes to look for space aliens
Step 3. Start paying our public school teachers more (by raising their taxes)
Step 4. Raise taxes

What did he mean by this?

“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”

Holy shit, that's pretty good.
Did /lit/ meme me again? He isn't as bad as you say/

If John Green were doing a Q&A in front of a live audience, and you could attend, what would you ask him? The questions would be written in advance and chosen at random, so whatever your question is, he might have to read it and answer it.

>Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is really.)

Really makes you think...

This guy walks up and slaps your 14 year old daughter in the ass. Wut do?

What exactly did he mean by this?

If you could ask John Green one question, what would it be?

What exactly did he mean by this?

What did he mean by this?