![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schmericaOn the bus ride home from work today I was thinking about a YA novel I read the other day and wanted to talk to someone about it. THEN I REMEMBERED I HAD A BEST FRIEND GETTING HER MASTER'S DEGREE IN KID'S LIT. What a coincidence!
ME: Have you read Paper Towns [by John Green] yet? I have thoughts I don't know what to do with.
FOX: Yes! I just finished yesterday!
ME: I finished Thursday night! *high five* Anyway, it is driving me crazy because there is so much I love about it -- but the central conceit drives me insane
ME: Like I realize the point is Green is PROBLEMITIZING the whole geek boy and his fetish for the mysterious/perfect/unattainable girl?
AMY: I was annoyed at the othering of female characters but I loved Lacey and Radar.
ME: but it's still geek boy and dream girl when you come down to it, you know? And I hate that with a passion. What is wrong with girls who aren't unique pefect mysterious snowflakes? Why is her existence still about Q?
AMY: IAWTC. I wish we saw more of the female friends he supposedly had.
ME: Basically, I loved the 11 Things with Margo, the entire road trip, and most of the Radar or Ben interactions.
AMY: "This is what hope tastes like!"
ME: I love it when we come to the same conclusion completely indepedently.
AMY: Me tooooo! &you;
So, yeah, 1) My Amy is the BEST Amy and you should all be jealous; b) John Green is a really good writer and the book is really good but I can't love it wholeheartedly because no matter how much you try to make the book about getting over being that creepy dude, you still have the creepiness as the weird nougaty center and it weirds me out. :/ Write me the Ben-and-Lacey or Radar-and-Angela story instead!
ME: Have you read Paper Towns [by John Green] yet? I have thoughts I don't know what to do with.
FOX: Yes! I just finished yesterday!
ME: I finished Thursday night! *high five* Anyway, it is driving me crazy because there is so much I love about it -- but the central conceit drives me insane
ME: Like I realize the point is Green is PROBLEMITIZING the whole geek boy and his fetish for the mysterious/perfect/unattainable girl?
AMY: I was annoyed at the othering of female characters but I loved Lacey and Radar.
ME: but it's still geek boy and dream girl when you come down to it, you know? And I hate that with a passion. What is wrong with girls who aren't unique pefect mysterious snowflakes? Why is her existence still about Q?
AMY: IAWTC. I wish we saw more of the female friends he supposedly had.
ME: Basically, I loved the 11 Things with Margo, the entire road trip, and most of the Radar or Ben interactions.
AMY: "This is what hope tastes like!"
ME: I love it when we come to the same conclusion completely indepedently.
AMY: Me tooooo! &you;
So, yeah, 1) My Amy is the BEST Amy and you should all be jealous; b) John Green is a really good writer and the book is really good but I can't love it wholeheartedly because no matter how much you try to make the book about getting over being that creepy dude, you still have the creepiness as the weird nougaty center and it weirds me out. :/ Write me the Ben-and-Lacey or Radar-and-Angela story instead!
Tags: