Where Impossible Things May Happen

Putting them here, cuz hey, someone might care. Please don’t care though - I’m just some dumb kid reading a great book. My words are meaningless. If you, reader, haven’t read whatever chapters I’m talking about. Don’t read this.

Chapters 1 - 4

The character of Augustus Waters seems  archetypical. I love John Green, but changing genders doesn’t change much else and Augustus is so much like Margo/Alaska. That amazing person way out of maincharacter’s league who is nice and interesting and wonderful and introduces the maincharacter to new things. Whatever, can’t say I dislike it.

It’s interesting how videogames are always viewed as a shallow baseless medium by novelists (Or so it seems to me). They love their fellow books, and the most intelligent characters will always be reading one. They begrudgingly show some respect to movies. But Videogames are bleepy-bloopy slaughtery murderfests. Even The Price of Dawn translates from ‘passably good’ to ‘dumbstupid’ when it switches mediums in TFIOS. Just once, I’d like to see videogames treated as a parallel art form in a book.

Poor Isaac. Just beat out for male lead by his best friend Augustus. Ah, whatever, I like Gus better anyway.

Hazel is still falling into that weird placeholder role that all of John’s protagonists fall into for me. Even with her cancer and femininity I don’t feel a very strong voice coming out.

There’s probably something to be said in beautiful poetry about how the end of chapter 4 says something about how pain breeds pain and makes us break things and destroy stuff - but I have no idea what it is. And to tell the truth, someone else could say it better than I could.

Damn I love this novel so far.  Five out of five pandas. An Abundance of Katherines used to be my favorite Green novel, but already I can feel TFIOS hot on its heels.