Now that I'm "home" for the "holidays" it's become a job for me to apparently clean the house, do the laundry, take my sister to and from school and pick mum up after work. But that's all fine because I have no shifts for my Christmas job until like next week. Fuck my fucking life. In an attempt to overcome my perpetual boredom I turn to gaming, except some ASSHOLE switches the router off and then I lose everything. Like, what the fuck am I even doing in here. I just want to graduate, get my own job, make my own money, BUY MY OWN HOUSE SO I CAN TELL PEOPLE TO GET THE FUCK OUT OF IT. Argh shit like that makes me so mad, you have no idea.
Anyway my day wasn't exactly productive, but it wasn't counter-productive either. I kinda did the laundry, but I didn't take everything out, so I'll finish that tomorrow. Then I just played games and read my book. I'm like 70% through The Fault In Our Stars, which is the John Green book with the biggest hype, and so far I'm not feeling it at all. Basically it's about this girl who has terminal cancer, and then she finds herself a boyfriend who is really handsome and witty and charming, and as I read I'm like "yeah I don't believe guys like that exist- they can be witty and charming but there is no way they can look good at the same time". Reading the novel is quite fine, but again I get the feeling that John Green is pining for something greater, but the book just doesn't make it. Green incorporates all these magnificent quotes from famous authors into his works, but it just doesn't give off the same vibe when they are delivered by his characters. For some reason the protagonists just seem like teenagers who try really hard to be cool and sophisticated and give off this "I belong in the metaphysical" feel. Yeah, my problem is that his characters don't seem real. They are merely the embodiments of the adult perception of a teenager, and the "teenagery" flavour is far too strong. There is no flesh and bone about them, and they are mere tools to deliver deep lines and quotes which don't contribute much to the book, because you would require way more sophistication to understand to quoted lines than the novel itself. They just seems so.... out of place. Like he only put them there so that his book could have deeper meaning and be more than an adult portrayal of teenage.
I sound like I have nothing but criticism for John Green's works, eh? Do consider that I've read through them with incredible speed, and I don't consider myself a fast reader. That at least shows it wasn't painful to read, and the story certain wasn't boring. My primary complaint was that it tried to encapsulate more than it could handle, and everything is bursting at the seams so nothing makes much sense. Other than that it has been okay, because I've never read anything like it before. It does reinforce the fact that I really don't like the genre though... it's not exciting enough for a work of fiction, and if it were a work of non-fiction, then the characters seem too insignificant.
I should probably stop digging into Green's works. If he read this he'd probably be really cut, since an author invests their heart and soul into their works, regardless of how crap other people think it is. At least now I can safely say I HAVE read John Green, and that I didn't really like it, and the genre really wasn't my thing. I guess nothing interests me but fantasy. I should read more, but my "holiday" is really kinda crumbling and my life is about to go to the shits, so I don't know/ We'll see.
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