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ITT: writers who are John Green-tier.

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>> No.11129729

>>11129713
Victor Hugo.

>> No.11129736

>>11129713
I laughed. You win.

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they both shoehorn infotainment level popsci facts into their fiction to make juvenile metaphors.

>> No.11129752

>>11129713
Tolstoy is actually a little worse than John Green. At least as a thinker. In terms of style, it's pretty close. Don't believe me? Read Tolstoy's story "God Knows the Truth but Waits" and reflect on how this man is universally praised. It's the most baby-brained shit I've ever read.

>> No.11129754

Every writer is John Green-tier simply because he or she is a writer. You can interpret Tolstoy the way you would normally interpret John Green and you can interpret John Green the way you would normally interpret Tolstoy, but in the end it's all just interpretation.

>> No.11129755

>>11129740
That's an easy one. JG tries hard to be DFW.

>> No.11129759

>>11129754
Lol you are a retard.

>> No.11129765

>>11129759
How so?

>> No.11129768

>>11129765
Very carefully.

>> No.11129779

>>11129713
Joyce, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Proust, Melville.

>> No.11129781

>>11129768
Yes.

>> No.11130210

>>11129729
delet

>> No.11131166

>>11129779
>melville
fuck off