📚 3 Books mentioned in "UPDATE: John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire" of People I (Mostly) Admire
Podcast: People I (Mostly) Admire
Episode: UPDATE: John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire
Published on June 3, 2024
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Looking for Alaska
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Can you take me back to your first book? It's called Looking for Alaska.
In this segment, host Steve Levitt engages John Green in a discussion about his debut book, 'Looking for Alaska', highlighting the significance of this work in Green's writing career.
The Fault in Our Stars
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He's the author of The Fault in Our Stars, which began as a novel for young adults and ended up a cultural phenomenon.
In this segment, Steve Levitt introduces John Green and highlights him as the author of 'The Fault in Our Stars', a novel that started out for young adults but grew into a cultural phenomenon.
So you said it wasn't your dream to write bestsellers, but then you made the mistake of writing The Fault in Our Stars, which turned out to be one of the biggest books of all time.
In this segment, Steve Levitt discusses John Green's book 'The Fault in Our Stars', pointing out its remarkable success as one of the biggest bestsellers.
Hey, so I went back and reread The Fault in Our Stars last week; I had read it many years ago.
In this segment, Steve Levitt shares that he recently revisited 'The Fault in Our Stars,' a book he first read many years ago.
You've been cranking out books every year, every other year, and then after The Fault in Our Stars, there was a five-year gap before your next book, Turtles All the Way Down.
In this segment, host Steve Levitt discusses John Green's writing schedule, noting that after the release of 'The Fault in Our Stars', there was a significant gap before his next publication, 'Turtles All the Way Down'.
So one of the storylines in The Fault in Our Stars is this author who hates his readers. Did you feel a lot of pressure not to be that author?
In this segment, the host, Steve Levitt, brings up a storyline from 'The Fault in Our Stars' that features an author who harbors disdain for his readers. He then inquires if John Green felt any pressure to avoid becoming similar to that type of author.
But by the time I wrote The Fault in Our Stars, I was conscious of the fact that I was going to be read into that novel because I'd been friends with a young person who died of cancer, because I'd worked closely as a chaplain with young people who were dying.
In this segment, John Green reflects on how he was mindful of the perceptions surrounding his book 'The Fault in Our Stars', particularly in light of his personal relationships with young individuals facing terminal illnesses.
I thought that would be sort of a funny joke; I mean, I imagined that The Fault in Our Stars was going to be my least successful novel commercially, and so I imagined that as kind of a joke for the people who were really familiar with me who would get a lot of the sort of subtle references between Van Houten and myself.
In this segment, John Green humorously reflects on how he initially imagined 'The Fault in Our Stars' would be his least successful novel. He thought it would serve as an inside joke for those who were familiar with him, highlighting the subtle references shared between him and the character Van Houten.
I didn't, of course, imagine that I was going to be inundated with this level of fan mail and this amount of, you know, people asking me what happens after the end of the book, which is what the main character in The Fault in Our Stars wants to know from the author.
In this segment, John Green discusses the unexpected influx of fan mail he received after the release of his book 'The Fault in Our Stars', emphasizing the audience's curiosity about the fate of its main character.
And so there was this strange meta experience as a result of writing The Fault in Our Stars.
John Green discusses the unusual meta experience he encountered after writing 'The Fault in Our Stars'.
And there is this real meta experience where sometimes a sick kid will ask me what happens after the end of The Fault in Our Stars, and I'll have to say, like Peter Van Houten, I also don't know.
John Green mentions that children sometimes inquire about what happens after the conclusion of 'The Fault in Our Stars'. He relates his uncertainty in response to the question, echoing the character Peter Van Houten's own lack of answers in the story.
So, after I wrote The Fault in Our Stars, I spent over a year working on a desert island novel, a novel where six young people were stranded on a desert island.
John Green discusses his experience of spending over a year developing a new novel after the success of his famous book 'The Fault in Our Stars', hinting at his creativity and the challenges of writing.
Turtles All the Way Down
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You've been cranking out books every year, every other year, and then after The Fault in Our Stars, there was a five-year gap before your next book, Turtles All the Way Down.
Steve Levitt discusses John Green's writing history, referencing a five-year gap after 'The Fault in Our Stars' before his next book, 'Turtles All the Way Down.'