I mean, 2016 was like, the practice dumpster fire for the inferno of garbage that is 2020. Like 2017-2019 was just people piling up garbage on top of the pile of burnt rubbish that was 2016, completely ignoring it and then someone set fire to that bigger pile of garbage in February
They're not switched. Hank is publishing a book and so far as I know John does not yet have plans to release an album. If he does then the symmetry will be complete.
Nothing makes me happier on youtube, then seeing John and Hank together in a vlogbrothers video. Like, the amount of happiness in a video just exponentially increases when John and Hank are together. Also, there was a saddening lack of "it's a reunion videooooo" in this. Congrats on the new book, John!
Kaylee Touw me too this just made my day, and I'm also going to see Bruno Mars in concert. The happiness that results from these two together is beautiful
It is true. Every single reunion video on vlogbrothers is the highlight of at least my entire day, if not week. It always makes me giggle and I love that.
Ester Prokešová Right? They always seem to end with Hank making some absurd joke and then John will groan about how awful it was, but then kinda sorta actually enjoy the joke and it's just the kind of thing that makes me smile.
I kinda feel like hank and john being together is like when I get to see my siblings. The first like week is fantastic, week two we are starting to get on each others nerves a bit, and week 3 and on...well there hasn't been a week three and on since we were kids and there are reasons for this...
I've been away from the DFTBA community for a while but came back when I was recently diagnosed with OCD. I forgot how much this channel feels like home to me.
As a student of mental health care, i do hope you're doing well, and are finding growth and comfort in your friends, family, and hopefully therapy. and also, vlogbrothers. As always, DFTBA
I got the book in Australia and it’s a blank black cover...? Maybe it’s different in North America? Can someone tell me what the secret is? I’m dying to know.
I love John's reaction to Hank wanting to make merch. "Oh my God. We have merch for it, it's called Turtles All The Way Down, it's available in bookstores everywhere." I laughed so hard. The "oh my god" was so dry. :D
Things I got from this video: 1) Hank and John are the most adorable together 2) I am way more excited to read this book than I realized I pre-ordered it and I'm just anxiously waiting until it freakin ARRIVES AT MY HOUSE ALREADY
OMG SAME I was going to buy tickets but there was no one to go with me! and the locations they chose were too dangerous to go there and back by myself ;-; but I got my signed copy so I'll be okay :')
I don't even consider myself a nerdfighter but I am TEARING UP FOR YOU, JOHN! I can only begin to imagine the stress and pressure and ultimate happy release this process seems to have been for you. I want to truly, genuinely, congratulate you.
I firmly believe that 2017 should be known as the year We Wish the Fire was Still Contained to the Dumpster, both for political reasons and the actual literal fires raging across the western US.
Nearly every time Hank visits John, whenever he's greeted for the first time he's got this goofy, boyish nervousness going on and it's kind of hilarious.
Lawrence Calablaster Yeah imagine children having to read John Green in class. They would be required to watch silly RU-vid videos for background on the author. And John would need to make a crash course literature episode about himself.
Turtles All The Way Down released on the same day as World Mental Health day, please tell us if that’s a coincidence or brilliant scheduling. I must know! 🐢🌀
Just got my Australian copy and yes first things first - went to look at the cover. And there was nothing :((( I even tried holding it at different angles, thought it might be some super secret light thing. So much disappointment
Same... but I just got to the point in my university work where I decided reading the book instead would be a much better use of my time (not sure my professors would agree, but shhhhh)
I was about to write a comment about how awful it feels to live in a country where the book isn't out yet, but i think your situation is worse haha. Good luck with your work, though 😊
That moment when you scroll down the comments to find an Olivia, and when you do, you wonder if you should thank her for saving Hank from embarrassment.
Just finished, so beautiful. This will be a book I revisit frequently, love the way you are able to describe emotional battle for those who grieve. It was like seeing little pieces of myself in these characters. So much love for this book.
I just finished Turtles All The Way Down. I loved it all the way through but the last three pages just blew me away. They were so true and heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. Thank you for sharing this gift with the world John!
Thanks for writing a book that pushes back the dark on mental illness, and on caring for those with mental illness. Thanks for putting your time and your soul into it. Thanks for sharing it.
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After scrambling to three different stores yesterday, I finally got my copy! I am so excited to read it and I would just like to thank you, John, for once again blessing us with your brilliance.
Just went to you guys' show in New York. Can't wait to read the book. The show was incredible. Seeing John and Hank up close made me feel like a bigger part of Nerdfighteria. John, loved your talks on mental illness and the bit towards the end about hope, a great, tender, personal moment. You guys' encore bit of sweet caroline was also incredible and brought me so much joy to see John literally jump for joy. Have a wonderful rest of the tour and come back to New York soon!
Why isn't there a LOVE button on RU-vid videos??? Im so excited it is out.... BUT.... I don't have my cop yet because I ordered from Amazon and they just shipped them today so I can't read it until NEXT TUESDAY!!!! Uhg!! It's going to be an agonizing week as I know I could get one in the store, but I have already purchased 2 copies so I must wait!! Maybe I'll have it read by the time I see you guys in St. Paul on the 2nd though???
I just finished reading your book. It wasn't the first book of yours I've read but it definitely is the one I love the most. It did not only move me- it kickstarted a thought process that hurts, but it's the kind of hurt that is necessary, that will help me to grow into a better person I hope. I identify with Aza. It felt like I was her rather than watching her acting out a story. I couldn't stop reading. I missed this feeling. Thank you. Thank you so so much.
I rarely travel. Nor do I venture into public crowds often. But I will celebrate the release of your new book from afar, aka the quiet, hilly countryside of commercially farmed Illinois, by ordering it today and reading it. Thank you, from a fellow OCD madwoman and writer.
I’m in the middle of Aza’s big spiral in the middle of the book and I’m stunned by the bravery you have for having writing from even a simulacrum of your own experience in such vivid awfulness. I hope you know by now that such bravery is a gift to the world.
I should be getting my copy tomorrow!! I preordered the day you announced the book, so excited! So proud of you John, I can't wait to read it tomorrow since I don't have school! DFTBA!!!
Currently have real tears because I'm so proud and relieved and happy for you that your book got such great reviews. I can not wait to see you two in Indi!
No spoilers? So I shouldn't tell ever to how it's actually a sequel to the fault in our stars, and Augustus Waters' ghost shows up half way through? Or the invasion of the giant space turtles at the end.
Watching this video with Yello's "Tied Up" playing the background works on so many levels. HOW?! Also, congratulations John on another massive success. And congratulations to you, Hank, for being the super chilled-out brother. much love from Tasmania
John Green!!! Turtles All The Way Down is giving me so much life today!! I'm on page 42 and so far you're averaging like one delightfully genius quote or idea per page. It's absolutely ridiculous. I started a notes category on my phone of quotes from your book that I want to remember and share with people, but I have to pause a lot because there're so many! I expected to like this book, but holy cheese! It's above and beyond. Thank you so much for sharing your genius with the world.
I love you guys so much. I see that Hank is doing his sibling duty of helping to keep his brother's stress levels manageable. I do the same thing for my sister when we travel.
want a visual representation of 2017? How about my hometown of Santa Rosa which my parents and I had to evacuate because... you know... ACTUAL GIANT FUCKING FIRES. I'm scared and don't know if I have a home to return to and this video gave me a moment of joy.
Some of my close family is in your exact situation. I'm sorry things feel so precarious right now, I hope everything turns out better than expected for you and your family. Sending loving and hopeful thoughts.
I'm sorry that's happened to you and I hope everything works out okay for you and if it doesn't that things improve rapidly and the kindness of people overcomes the sadness of events. -sends virtual hug-
Congratulations on your new book John! I am so looking forward to reading it! And thank you for all of your hard work! - and congrats to Hank for being and having an awesome brother!
Great job at the NYC show! I had an amazingly good time as did my companions and hopefully you two as well. I don't think I have ever seen John as happy as when we succeeded at Sweet Caroline and that will stay with me for a while.
thank you so much for including south Africa in your list, I feel so appreciated! your book really made me think about a lot of things and your philosophical writing is breathtaking
I just opened the dust jacket and almost started crying from joy not to be dramatic but I'm so happy to be part of this community and for john's book coming out thank you John and hank and nerdfighteria
I got a signed copy. Read it in 2 days. Loved it. Loved it so much. It's John's best book by far (his others were good too but honestly Turtles just hit me on a much deeper level) John, you deserve all the praise.
This is your first book that's been published since I discovered Nerdfighteria/your books (I read TFIOS a few months after it was published), and it has been SUCH A JOY to watch the whole process and to get so hyped, and today I finally got the book and I can't stop smiling! I love the physical book itself, the texture of the book jacket, the cover art, the end papers, the weight of it... AND I love everything I've read so far. What a true and utter delight. CONGRATS John and THANK YOU!
My copy just arrived today 😊 also, my mom would like me to ask if you could write a book big enough for me to not be able to finish it in one afternoon 😂
So I'm reading Turtles All The Way Down (NO SPOILERS I PROMISE) whilst avoiding most people in my life, and I realized something. Because I've been watching you two since approximately summer of 2009, it feels as though I can respond to a line that John wrote, or a song that Hank released, in the same way one might respond to a friend. It feels personal, somehow, to read things I've heard discussed on a podcast about chronic pain, or to read the word "deadpanned" and be reminded of Paper Towns. I'm reading this book and it feels like home. It's entirely new, an undiscovered compilation of thoughts and ideas and concepts, yet it's familiar in form and rhythm and tone. I love that. I hope that you read this, John. I don't expect you to remember the one time that we met, when I told you that I wrote my college entrance essay about the concept of Paper Towns and got into my first choice school, but nonetheless I hope that you read these words and know that the eight years I've spent in Nerdfighteria have changed my very essence of being. Thank you. - Kira Shaputis
I got a hanklerfish! Thank you, thank you for continuing to write. I think I speak for all of nerdfighteria, when I say, thank you for not giving up and creating this beautiful story for us.
