Relating to the third reason, I basically said all I can about that. That’s what books are for.With the footnotes, you could do a freeze-frame moments and have them typed below (possibly in the title font), but you would be freezing about every five seconds, because trust me-you need the footnotes to understand half of what Colin says.

1 = TFIOS & 10 = THG) Also, constant narration would be kind of irritating. (But they didn’t do that, now did they? If they did, I wouldn’t have a comparison scale of The Fault In Our Stars to The Hunger Games. I mean, they could go old-school 90’s movie style and have Colin narrate, but they could have also taken all the dialog directly out of TFIOS and put it into the movie. These three things can not be set into movie format. I mean, people who haven’t read the book won’t understand that the flashbacks are essential to the story unless there’s narration (see reason #1.)

And I don’t know about you, but I find flashbacks semi-irritating.

It would be extremely difficult to include the footnotes in the movie (but not impossible…).

Colin Singleton’s constant narration is a must.

Let’s rack off the reasons the movie wouldn’t be good: Let me lay out the factors of what makes the book so wonderful: But think: would it make a good movie? Let’s be reasonable. If you haven’t read it, you probably don’t know what it’s about, so click here to get the summary. It’s my favorite of the John Green books by far, Paper Towns following close behind. If you’ve read John Green’s An Abundance of Katherines, you know how perfectly, amazingly funny this book is. Seventeen Magazine wrote this little blog post about which books should be adapted into movies next, inspiring a rebuttal from me about #5.

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