[ SECRET POST #2275 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2275 ⌋

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Comments

[badass_tiger]

You are not alone, OP. I didn't understand what was so extraordinary and award-winning about it either. Still, I suspect that this is largely because the book offended me early on, so perhaps I can't say much.

I haven't read his other books though. I don't like romance in general, so I'm not really interested. I only read tfios in the first place because all my friends, even those who despise romantic novels, adored it.

[(Anonymous)]

Offended you?

[badass_tiger]

I gave the book away so I don't have the exact quotes, but the guy says he believes in Heaven or something and the protagonist considers the fact that she automatically assumes anybody who believes in a higher power is an idiot.

Like, wow. I actually had to take an hour to process exactly how stupid that was. And she repeats it a couple more times iirc. After I finished it, I dropped it off at a friend's place and told her to keep it. I get annoyed just seeing that book sometimes.

[(Anonymous)]

wow, you certainly are delicate

[badass_tiger]

I do try.

(I get enough flack for my religion as it is, so I was just kind of mad that the idol of teenage girls everywhere was advocating that crap.)

[(Anonymous)]

But... Did you read the rest of the book?

[funyarinpainahat]

As a Catholic I get where you're coming from. I can prove my intelligence again and again, but since I believe in God I must be inherently less intelligent. Didn't stop me from reading the book, but I get it.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I get offended if a protagonist says not believing in a higher power makes you immoral or whatever and it's never challenged, so I can't throw stones.

[(Anonymous)]

John Green's a Christian, jsyk. It's the character's belief, not the writer giving the character his own belief, in case that's what offended you.

[badass_tiger]

I guessed that they weren't exactly his beliefs, but they were never disproved in the book either. People still take it at face value.

[(Anonymous)]

So... You were offended by a fictional character's beliefs?

[(Anonymous)]

lol, mte.

[(Anonymous)]

are you one of those people who thinks Nabokov is a pedo?

[(Anonymous)]

lol, what the fuck. Do you think that every single thing a character says is the author's personal opinion?

Every single book ever must offend you in some way, if that's the case.

[ladysugarquill]

Hm, that's a stupid opinion, but if it was the character's opinion, I wouldn't call it offensive, though it may make me dislike the character. Characters can be wrong, it's not necessarily the author talking.

(And, if it was Hazel talking, I may be callous and say it was probably deliberate on John Green's part. He is usually very careful about not offending anyone, but Hazel is practically a Mary Sue. He may be trying to give her some faults.)

[katya]

That bothered me too, although I'm not religious. Hazel also made a couple weird gender comments that bugged me, that certain things were "boy things" so she didn't like them. I get that's not John Green's personal opinion, but it didn't make the character likable to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Can I ask what offended you with the book? (Just curiosity).

I've only read one of his books (not this one) and was mildly entertained. That's about it. Felt no need to read any of his other books after that, though.