Hollywood, Ending by John Green: book review
Hollywood, Ending by John Green I have tried to write this review on three separate occasions. Every time, the draft gets long and unwieldy, a winding string of poorly made points trying to enumerate all the different ways the book didn't work for me, mostly to make sense of how disappointing I found this novel when it's been shrouded in absolutely glowing reviews from the NYT to random people on the Internet. It's not a strange thing for me to be underwhelmed or disappointed by a book. That happens all the time. But I think I'm confused because I thought I would be one of the people singing Hollywood, Ending 's praises. I pre-ordered my copy as I did for Turtles All The Way Down after devouring all of Green's YA novels in the years prior. I'm sure you can dig up all those reviews somewhere in these depths. I also enjoyed The Anthropocene Reviewed and Everything is Tuberculosis despite my reservations that I would be into a book about Tuberculosis. I...
