Me and the Un-relatable Characters.

Hey guys,

I recently returned from a trip, and it was a really good experience. So, maybe i should be writing about my experiences from the trip, but I won't. Instead of it, I want to write about something I thought when I read Will Grayson, Will Grayson and Paper Towns. Speaking of it, I finally finished "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan.

The book was nice. Actually, I couldn't really make sense of it in the starting. Turned out, alternate chapters switched POV's between the two different Will Graysons. The story became interesting when the two Wills meet. 

On t the next book-

So, when I finished reading Will Grayson, Will Grayson, I started Paper Towns. It's a nice book, I like John Green's characters, they seem real. Quentin and Margo are interesting characters. I'm still reading the book, though I've finished 3/4th of it, already. 

Another book, I had read in January, but I felt like writing about-

Looking For Alaska is John Green's first book, but I read it after reading TFIOS. So, the reason I thought about it was that I was comparing myself to John Green's female protagonists. If anyone knows me, even slightly, they can tell that I am nothing like "Alaska Young", the female protagonist of Looking For Alaska, or like "Margo Roth Spiegelman" from Paper Towns, or even like "Jane" from Will Grayson, Will Grayson.

 I won't go as far as saying that I am not at all like "Hazel Grace Lancaster" from The Fault In Our Stars. Please don't take me as a narcissist, because I am not saying that I am like Hazel. But I am as obsessed with The Fault In Our Stars as she was with An Imperial Affliction, and I like metaphors as much as she did. I would go on and on about the more things we have in common, but I think you get the idea. 

Now, about Alaska and Margo. They are like "VERY" different from me. They are eccentric, outgoing, adventurous and insane. I mean, I am insane too, just a different kind of it. I am neither adventurous nor mysterious, and that was part of the reason that John Green's other books didn't appeal to me as much as TFIOS. I sure liked them, but not enough to be obsessed with them. 

On the other hand, Jane from Will Grayson, Will Grayson is different too. She has this quite extraordinary taste in music, that "I" don't. Infact, I like the songs that more than half the girls of my age like. Well, maybe that is not my field to be unique, and I am Okay with it. And, she's really intelligent too, in science and all. I on the other hand, prefer literature.

I always like characters I can relate to. Everyone does, actually. But for me, it is a kind of necessity to have relatable characters to love the story. I hope one day John Green creates a character like me (Yes, John Green, not any other author.), but I highly doubt it. After all, "The world is not a wish granting factory".

But, "Hope is the only thing stronger than fear".

                                                           John Green (:

Will Grayson, Will Grayson.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to write a blog post, but couldn't come up with a topic. I still haven't come up with a topic I can write much on, but it's something atleast.

I'm currently reading "Will Grayson, Will Grayson", written by John Green and David Leuithan. I am a member of a "teen book community" on Google+, and we had to nominate books, so that we could vote and read a book and then discuss about it. I nominated "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". And guess what? It got maximum votes. (:

I had it on my shelf and on my TBR (to-be-read) list since January, I bought it just becuse my favourite author is John Green, and according to me, one should read all the works of one's favourite author.
I have already read The Fault In Our Stars, Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. I have an ebook of Paper Towns, but since I prefer paperbacks, I'll buy one and read it. There was also a book coauthored by John Green, which has short stories.

So, now I've been reading the book, and one of the things I liked was how "Will", hates abbreviations like 'lol' and 'rofl' , because it's kinda true, no one's "rolling on the floor laughing" and Will says-
"Rofl? What? Are you really rolling on the floor laughing? Well, please stay down there a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS." ;D

And, one more thing he says, that's probably relatable to some people is-

"I could spend hours setting up a particular wish-and every time I'd be met with a resounding wall of complete indifference."

That's all, I'll write more about the book when I finish reading it.
Thanks for reading!

Love,
Punya