![]() ![]() He hooks himself into the questions that consume adolescence - Who am I? What is my purpose? Am I a disgusting monster, or the single most important being in the universe? - and worries through them with the kind of single-minded intensity that would do a teenager proud. What can get lost in that image, though, is the fact that Green is a genuinely good writer for teens. John Green is popularly perceived as “the sad teen book guy.” He writes books about quirky sad teenagers who fall in love and then die, goes the general pop culture osmosis understanding in a post- The Fault in Our Stars world, and then the teenagers who read the books get sad too, and it’s all extremely adolescent and self-indulgent. ![]()
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