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riddlemetom:

John Green gives book recommendations.

— Has anyone read ‘Looking for Alaska’ by John Green?

aleiahomora:

fishingboatproceeds:

sstephaniecaroll:

and if so, would you recommend it?

I thought it was okay.

I was about to be like “Who in their right mind would label ‘Looking for Alaska’ only OKAY”, but then I saw the url lol

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So I sent an email to 7 of my friends, including Sarah, and I said, ‘Does anyone want to go see ‘Lost in Translation’ tonight?’ and then I sent an email immediately afterwards to the 6 of my friends who weren’t Sarah and I said, ‘NOT YOU.’

kathy-h:

I’m making a point here, and it’s that you don’t know jack
The best of you can hope to have been taught to learn
To yearn for more that you’ll still have to earn

10 favourite YouTubers - vlogbrothers (x)

— Banning books

wholenothalf:

I, personally, LOVE IT when schools ban books. Nothing, and I repeat, nothing will make those kids want to read that book more than if you tell them they can’t because there is too much explicit content that is too mature for them. They will get their hands on copies even if you take them out of the schools. The best thing this school could to is keep it on the curriculum so that the, hopefully wonderful, English teacher can explain things to them. So that he/she can share John Green’s reasoning with them. He is not a pornographer. He is a realist who knows EXACTLY was those kids are thinking about and he seems to know EXACTLY what to say to them. Yea, that failed blow job attempt in LfA, that’s not very encouraging to young boys. If anything, it might scare them away from sex for a few more months or years. So go ahead Karns High School, ban it and see how the kids will run to get their hands on a copy.

“You can read this book in class if you have a permission slip from your parent” they say. So to the public library I went.

fishingboatproceeds:

In my new video, I solve all your problems. Assuming, of course, you have these particular problems.

Saying ‘I notice you’re a nerd’ is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?’ In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even ‘lame’ is kind of lame. Saying ‘You’re lame’ is like saying ‘You walk with a limp.’ Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he’s done all right for himself.

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