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Am I the only one who hates this book with burning passion?
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Jun 05, 2014 05:24AM
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@Emma- Really what? you've stopped in the middle of a sentence for the last 3 posts you've made.
@Emma- well, on my phone a whole bunch of your last posts are about 5 words long and then just stop in the middle.
I can't believe that I just
The trailer makes me barf.
Emma- Maybe my phone is just screwing up but it happened again.Aria- It really was cheesy. I saw the film yesterday and truth was that it wasn't as bad as I'd expected! The characters were less annoying and bitchy and pretentious, but they still were. Still better than the book. (Everyone was sobbing and I literally laughed at them. Really loud.)
I think it's your phone
@Aly- thanks for letting me know that. I was starting to worry that my phone was being annoying, but turns out it was just Emma being annoying.
@Ayesha- YES OH MY GOD. THAT CAT PHOTO IS THE BEST THING *applauds* I AM LAUGHING SO HARD. I think I have to agree with you and the cat though.
Emma wrote: "Wow thanks! :)"
@Emma- what do you want now???? ugh.
If you agree with a cat, what other animal would you be interested in agreeing with?
@Ayesha- I can't help but laugh a lot at the cats. They're the best thing. Thank God for angry cats.
@Emma- I agree with many kinds of animals, although not barbaric ones who threaten to bash people because they don't like a book.
Emily, if you've found an animal that can makes threats to bash people, you're a bloody millionaire! You just found a talking animal!
What like the flying zoo pig?
@Emma- News flash: humans are animals. So technically we're all talking animals. You don't seem like the type of person who knows that, so this may just be new to you.
Knows what? I don't get it??
I could say you're bullying, calling me names like brat. Plus, Emma isn't my real name. I'd prefer if you called me baby123
Aly- She never seemed intelligent to me, honestly. She seems pretty damn immature to me. I don't think she'll have the sense to listen to you and leave before she does herself more damage. I've honestly been laughing at her quite a bit in this conversation.
Wow, you ladies really don't take a liking to the little jokes do you? Sometimes, when I'm being too mature, I go on goodreads and pretend that my sentences
Emma wrote: "I could say you're bullying, calling me names like brat. Plus, Emma isn't my real name. I'd prefer if you called me baby123"Calling someone a brat can't get you in any trouble. At least she didn't threaten to bash your head into a wall repeatedly.
Emma wrote: "I could say you're bullying, calling me names like brat. Plus, Emma isn't my real name. I'd prefer if you called me baby123"
I'm so flattered you guys are feeling for me. What do you think would happen if the 3 of us met in person?
I'm not little. I'm the tallest in my class!
Emma wrote: "Wow, you ladies really don't take a liking to the little jokes do you? Sometimes, when I'm being too mature, I go on goodreads and pretend that my sentences"
Emma wrote: "I'm so flattered you guys are feeling for me. What do you think would happen if the 3 of us met in person?"I wouldn't ever be willing to meet you in person.
Emma wrote: "I'm so flattered you guys are feeling for me. What do you think would happen if the 3 of us met in person?"
Emma wrote: "Wow, you ladies really don't take a liking to the little jokes do you? Sometimes, when I'm being too mature, I go on goodreads and pretend that my sentences"You probably wouldn't know how to be mature if it bashed your head into a wall repeatedly.
As the Holocaust raged and engulfed Anne Frank, her diary, her memoir, was very much about the very things most girls feel when they begin to mature toward womanhood. Basic desires and wants of friendship, love, and wanting to be thought of as beautiful, with many thoughts any adolescent would have. It was a story of basic humanity in a sea of tyranny, and that she would never reach her full womanhood was her tragedy and that of the world. The kiss between Hazel and Gus at this moment was not pornographic or even sloppy or prolonged as many of the dissers of this scene seem to imply, or that even a kiss of any kind should happen at all. To the opposite, the life of Anne Frank as reflected in her diary and the memorial is inspiring, if not mutually honoring, the meaning of the kiss at that moment between Gus and Hazel. That although they too were not going to see full adulthood (and by this time in the book, that was clear to both of them, tho' Gus' situation is not fully revealed until later on) because of the ugliness of their cancers, they had within them the human spirit and desire which, even as it was blossoming, they would soon lose. But at that moment, they knew they had found genuine love and, despite their physical traumas, knew that they were genuinely loved in return. Sappy? Poignant? Obviously people have their differences. But disrespectful as described in the book? No. Not even close. Not to people who are not predisposed to hate John Green for being John Green. Which, ironically, is a man with a purposeful, successful life, contributing to the world in many positive ways. I sadly expect the usual, sophomoric cat responses, with visuals and without. See you JG-obsessed folks in a couple months. Try to be excellent to each other. Ciao!
That's because I've been dead for ten years....Nah not really. But seriously, taking something to heart like this isn't okay girls. It's a sign of doubt in yourselves, a lack of confidence. I'm gonna go cuz the pizzas here. Ciao!
Trace wrote: "As the Holocaust raged and engulfed Anne Frank, her diary, her memoir, was very much about the very things most girls feel when they begin to mature toward womanhood. Basic desires and wants of fri..."I respect John Green and think he is a good person, but I still think that scene was disrespectful. Of course, cancer is disgusting and terrible, but just because they have cancer doesn't mean that they should be able to do that and disrespect Anne Frank and the millions of people who were damaged or killed because of the Holocaust. If they wanted to kiss, they could have waited a few minutes and kissed outside the Anne Frank House. I totally understand your points and completely respect your opinion.
Emma wrote: "That's because I've been dead for ten years....Nah not really. But seriously, taking something to heart like this isn't okay girls. It's a sign of doubt in yourselves, a lack of confidence. I'm ..."
Threats like that should be taken seriously. Stop being so immature, it's ridiculous.
@EmilyHow much will you rate the movie out of 10?
Can you do minus numbers out of ten?@Trace your post was poetic, but you really can't compare two snotty teenagers abusing their cancer situation with a young girl who lived in perpetual fear of other people taking her life. Both are tragic, sure, but it's like comparing someone dying of AIDS to 9/11. The scale of the tragedy and the cause make them worlds apart. The poignancy would only work should Anne Frank have been dying of septicemia or something, rather than at risk from the Gestapo.
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