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Why I'm going to like this book

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Because I've avoided John Green for a long time... since everybody seems to be talking about him... and the thing with authors or books that everyone's talking about... is that sometimes you want to avoid them... after all, if a LOT of people like them... that means they appeal to the masses... which means that it appeals to a pedestrian taste... but you don't want to be associated with anything pedestrian... because you're different, damn it, and you're smart... you think... smarter than the hoi polloi... so you avoid the book/author... until you can't because... you're actually curious... and you end up buying the book... but at the back of your mind, you think, "There must be something wrong with this book... and I'm going to find it. And call it out for everyone to see... or agree with a really smart detractor... because we smart folk need to stick together... and ...