Talk:Augustus Waters/@comment-110.20.61.122-20141011001025/@comment-24060784-20141027153619

All these characters, as admitted by themselves, were highly pretentious. Well, not all, it was mostly Gus.

That, for me, is one of the best parts of the book. Teenagers dreaming of what they could be and what they want to be. You can take it to be unrealistic but I see it as the charm of the book. If this book was written with everday teenage talk, it wouldn't have the same effect.

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