Sons of Admirals: http://sonsofadmirals.com/ Alex Day: http://www.youtube.com/nerimon Tom Milsom: http://www.youtube.com/hexachordal Eddplant: http://www.youtube.com/eddplant Ningmaster Tom: http://www.youtube.com/jointhemadvender Lidewij: http://www.youtube.com/user/Lidespam ELMIFY! http://www.youtube.com/elmify Charlie: http://www.youtube.com/charlie songsfrompaul: http://www.youtube.com/songsfrompaul Tobias: http://www.twitter.com/tobiasagricola Secret Sister Rosianna: http://www.youtube.com/missxrojas
In which John Green discusses his trip to the United Kingdom to support his novel, Paper Towns, which has just been published there. Also he talks about Isaac Newton, Snooki, lust for objects, great music, nerdfighting, unfinished monuments, and the right to choose what we care about. Thanks to everyone who gathered in London and Edinburgh. I can't wait to come back to the UK!
Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh
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As always. Another amazing episode. Also, so cool that you got to meet Charlie!
Dear John (not one of THOSE ‘Dear John’ letters, I swear!),
Thanks so much for your AWESOME advice during the Waterstone’s Piccadilly signing, when you told me how to handle my public speaking nerves. I did my first ever talk as a ‘published author’ in front of 45 aspiring authors (to me that was a LOT) and it went way better than expected. I was, in fact, “the baddest motherf*cker in the room”. Your tip worked! ;)
Great video, by the way. DFTBA!
Cheers,
Kaz
hey, so not to be a dick or anything, but you referred to yourself in the third person, but then switched to the first at the end of the description thingy. you “pulled a snooki”
The reason that first sentence is in the third person is that we’ve always put our first sentences in the third person; it goes back to the brotherhood 2.0 days when we weren’t allowed to communicate textually and so we’d have to refer to ourselves as “john” and each other as “hank” instead of I and you so nerdfighters would not accuse us of breaking the rules.
But yes. Poor grammar.
The Edinburgh event was awesome. Sorry we made you climb up the hill with your suitcase on a stupidly hot day :/
The actual Book Festival event was great. I really enjoyed it; I’ve never heard an author discuss their work so meaningfully. I could have listened for hours :/
Also, thank you for taking the time to draw on and sign the canvas I brought with me. “This person has no mouth.” It hangs on my wall. c:
I can’t wait until more of your books are (hopefully) published here, so you can come and climb more Scottish mountains with us :D
P.s, I’m the girl who shook your hand when you got off the train.
John, I must thank you for the talk you gave at Edinburgh. It was amazing and inspiring. I am very much enjoying this new style of video too.
(From the girl who did the watercolour of the Adriondack swing.)
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