It's amazing how quickly Henry James can go from shit to genius and back again. He does it almost sentence by sentence.

ITT times you dropped a book after the first line?

>It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

>>7992952
That's actually a good opening line though

>>7992911
reading this right now. about halfway in. enjoying it quite a bit but progress is slow as ive been busy.

>>7992952

"Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot
of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death."

Not even gratuitous John Green bashing. I just think that's the single most annoying opening line ever written.

>>7992952
You pick that shit back up, famalam.

>>7992984
yeah thats awful
but then again what by Green isn't?

>>7992984
Reminder that according to Green, the book that Hazel reads (An Imperial Affliction) is based on Infinite Jest.

>>7994413
Reminder that if I can fuck little boys and be a world-renowned philosopher at the same time, it automatically means that being a world-renowned philosopher is a bad thing to aspire to.

>>7994447
Only John Green himself could make such a retarded and useless analogy.

>>7994460
Wow. I honestly feel sorry for people like you. I can't even comprehend what life event could possibly make you so sad and frustrated at life that you have to leash out on people over the Internet. I myself struggle with anxiety and depression, but man, get some help and you'll start feeling tremendously better about life. No need to throw a tantrum over something you read on the Internet and didn't like! Don't forget to be awesome, bro. :)

>>7994491
>you're so weird bro haha I'm totally not mad or weird :^)

>>7992911
This is good prose though.

>>7992911
>British writers