![]() This is much lighter fare, a road trip beyond the outer reaches of a suburban teen's comfort zone, with a moral that boils down to finding empathy for others - though I guess that's just another kind of feels. ![]() The new film of Green's 2008 novel Paper Towns isn't nearly as radical in form or tone as Me and Earl, but it's a diverting romp that will get the job done for the author's "nerdfighter" fans.įault was unapologetically a weeper, but those hoping for more of the prized emotional currency known in today's parlance as "feels" will come up short on Paper Towns. ![]() This summer's YA adaptation Me and Earl and the Dying Girl seemed to emerge from Green's shadow, though it came overloaded with style and snark that many found off-putting (I didn't). His 2012 bestseller The Fault in Our Stars, about two teenagers who fall in love in a cancer support group, and its smash hit movie last year helped signal that teens were ready for big-hearted realism in their fiction after so many years of fantasy. ![]() Nat Wolff and Margo Cara Delevingne in Paper Towns.Īs the current king of teen lit, author John Green is a barometer for what young readers respond to. ![]()
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