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Looking for Alaska Confession (ns) and little poll
I read this before I knew who John Green was or anything about him. I thought it was just alright. I mean, I liked it, but I wasn't wild about it.
Now that I'm a JG fangirl, I think it's pretty great and would recommend it to just about anyone.
*ETA* I want to add that the reason I like it now is because I can hear his voice reading it and hear his heart behind so many of the parts that I just didn't like the first time through. Not because I'm just "omg, everything JG does is amazing!" but because I get where he was coming from... if that makes sense? Sorry, I felt the need to clarify 
Has your opinion of a book ever changed because of a new opinion of the author?
(I'm aware that this could work the other way too. You like someone's book, find out they are awful then realize you dislike their book 
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Re: Looking for Alaska Confession (ns) and little poll
The opposite is true for Cassandra Clare. I liked her books so much better before I really knew who she was. Now I can't stand her and basically everything she writes makes me crazy.
my read shelf:
In college John Irving came and did a reading. It made me like his books more because I had a little more insight into his books.
On the same sort of note, I started and put down Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and didn't love Lovers Dictionary but I adore Every Day. After I saw David Levithan at the Decatur book festival, he just seems like a genuinely nice, kind of brilliant person and I'm excited to read his books because of that.
I refuse to purchase Ender's Game but I would still like to read it, despite how despicable I find its author.
I think it's true in life in general, that you root for the people who you respect and genuinely like and against who you do not.
Izzy and Baby A ~ Adorable Punks
I'm actually reading Looking for Alaska right now and I hear so much of it in JG's voice as I read, lol.
I think learning about what a jerk SM is definitely had something to do with my feelings for Twilight going down.