Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars

In which John reads the first chapter of his new book, The Fault in Our Stars, to you in lieu of making a real video today. I hope you like it, and that it’s not too awkward hearing a 34-year-old man pretend to be 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster. You can preorder your signed copy of The Fault in Our Stars at your local independent bookstore: dft.ba You can also preorder at B&N dft.ba Amazon dft.ba or anywhere else that sells books.

Download the mp3: www.zshare.net Buy or download Dan Bull’s debut album Safe from www.freshnut.co.uk Follow Dan on Twitter www.twitter.com Connect on Facebook at www.facebook.com MySpace: www.myspace.com For those asking how they can donate money – www.freshnut.co.uk —————————————————————————– Description: An open letter to Lily Allen in song format, regarding her recent campaign against filesharing and her decision to quit music. Lyrics: Dear Lily Allen, Remember when you pretended, Lily, that you were truly independent, Lily? Faking like you made it all alone but you were legally with Regal, part of Parlophone – oh yes. So when you lectured me, I thought I’d fileshare my thoughts on your mp3, Lily. Now first I must sing your praises – I love your singing but I’ll just say this: I saw on your MySpace pages saying filesharing’s a new ice age, but the industry’s a recent innovation – music’s been alive, thriving since cavemen. Folk songs so long have had a place in communities that you should be amazed at it. Then one day came intellectual property, meaning if I think a thought, you can’t copy me. And if honesty’s the best policy, I’d say songs are better off without this monopoly. It’d blatantly be a major fail if they’d patented the major scale. And downloads don’t equate to sales, so taking them away won’t make me pay up – just procludes me from sending your tunes to my friends, so we all lose in the end. You lose …
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