John Green is the lead author of the New York Times bestselling book. He has won the American Library Association Pritz Award, Best Book in Youth Literature of the Year, Silver Pritz Award, Edgar E. Lambo Award, and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Each of John Green's works topped the New York Times best-seller list and was in the top three for many years.
John Green's works are mostly teenage love stories, he is very careful about the character and plot of the polish, he portrays the characters with distinct personalities, youthful, funny and humorous, love and hate, the plot of the novel is ups and downs, and finally the protagonist can get the kind of unwavering love that people expect.
Incredibly wonderful pain
Douban score: 8.3
This book is the pinnacle of John Greene's work, which not only celebrates love, but also gives readers a beautiful and romantic answer to how finite life carries endless pain and love. In the book you can appreciate that although the proportion of joy and pain brought by love is roughly the same as the proportion of joy and pain brought to us by the whole life, when good love comes, please try to embrace it!
Excerpt a few impressive sentences.
"You put the deadly thing between your lips and teeth, but don't give it the power to kill."
"In this world, you can't choose not to be hurt, but you can choose who will hurt you, and you do have some say." I'm happy with my choice and hope she's satisfied with her choice as well. ”
The world on the back of a turtle
Douban score: 7.4
There is a category in the American book classification that is dedicated to young-adults, and readers of this age group are generally around 17 or 18 years old, who have an ignorant vision of love. So the novels written to them are mostly romance novels. It can be said that John Green is a master of creating this kind of subject, and he is good at bringing readers into the world of young people who are full of youth but also full of pain. It is said that "teenagers do not know the taste of sorrow", but in fact, people of all ages will have different worries. That was the case in John Green's view.
This book describes a love from seed to bud, where girls suffer from mental illness and rely on self-harm to gain comfort, and boys' families suffer great changes and are unable to cheer up. After two people meet, there are contradictions and feelings of pity for the same disease, and then slowly develop into a feeling that the friendship has reached the feeling that the lover is not enough.
Recommend these two novels to friends who no longer believe in love, let the tired body and mind be happy, and maybe touch some memories.