Goodreads Mobile | see what your friends are reading

Feb 08, 2012

Tatiana rated it:

As seen on The Readventurer

The Fault in Our Stars currently has a rating of 4.74 on Goodreads, almost everyone I know has given it 5 stars, therefore I'm certain no one would want to read my sour musings, except me and maybe a couple of other like-minded and unimpressed.

What I'd love to know is this - what makes a writer undertake the topic of cancer? So much has already been written about it, so many Lifetime movies filmed, so many tears shed. It literally has been More...

97 comments like (123 people liked it)

Jan 17, 2012

Lucy rated it:

First and foremost, the author really does not want you to spoil yourself. I, however, am the kind of person who likes to read revealing reviews before purchasing a book. There are, after all, only so many books you can read in a year and afford to buy. If I didn't own this book, I'd want to read a review like this... So, I leave it up to you, intrepid reader. I'm sure you're smart enough to know your own preferences and I'll be using spoiler tags for the stuff I believe Green doesn't want discu More...

25 comments like (86 people liked it)

Jan 23, 2012

Rilly *procrastinator and proud* rated it:

this is me after I finished the book (and whenever I think about it)
description

*EDIT* In a lot of peoples reviews I keep seeing "they don't talk their age!" or "They make these beautiful long speeches which is something that normal teenagers don't do" and I have to point out that Augustus and Hazel AREN'T normal teenagers. They've had to go through so much more In their lifetime than a lot of teenagers will ever have to, and quite honestly, this book wouldn't be as goo More...

13 comments like (108 people liked it)

Jan 28, 2012

Meg ♥ rated it:

Hazel is a 16 year old girl with stage IV thyroid cancer, and has been living with an oxygen tank since she was first diagnosed at 12. She realizes she is going to die, but she is on a drug that is keeping the tumors at bay. At a support group meeting she meets hottie Augustus Waters, who is in remission. They immediately hit it off and change each others lives drastically.

The Fault in Our Stars is another beautifully written book by John Green. A few months ago John made a video More...

11 comments like (50 people liked it)

Jan 12, 2012

Jaci rated it:

Holy holy holy I waited so long so this novel, so long. I wish so bad I could give it more than 5 stars. John Green is absolutely amazing, amazing, amazing. The Fault in Our Stars had me laughing and crying, then laughing more and crying more. I will reread this over and over again, just like the rest of his novels. Oh wow, was it ever worth the wait. Thank you, John Green, for being so damn spectacular.

1 comment like (39 people liked it)

Feb 11, 2012

Julianna rated it:

I am one of the few who got their shipment (accidentally) early.

I finished this book at 3:48AM on 12/24/11.

It is every bit as amazing as John Green is, but... NO SPOILERS UNTIL 1/10/12 (which is when I'll post my review). :)

All I will say is this: Do not be afraid.

P.S. Augustus stops a car from hitting Hazel. Oh wait, that's TWILIGHT, never mind!

Actual, full review: FINALLY I can post this! Woot! The original is here. (Note: Due to copy-and-pas More...

3 comments like (16 people liked it)

Feb 15, 2012

Jerzy rated it:

Near the beginning of John Green's over-hyped, yet (for my tastes) characteristically unexceptional YA novel, "The Fault In Our Stars," his protagonist Hazel, a girl suffering from stage IV thyroid cancer, states, "Cancer books suck." Whether this is Green's opinion or not I don't know, but as far as the YA genre is concerned, the statement is simply untrue. In the last 5 years there have been a spate of excellent YA "cancer books," including "Deadline" by More...

3 comments like (14 people liked it)

Jan 17, 2012

Rhi rated it:

I must be clear from the beginning. This is perhaps the most personal review I have written. My choice of stars was difficult for this. I am a self confessed John Green fan, I believe he is amongst the best of, not only YA, but fiction writers out there in general.
This is a beautifully written book. There is very little to complain about in terms of style, plot, character, etc. However I couldn't, in all good concious, give this any higher because it sits so badly with me. I have let this More...

45 comments like (62 people liked it)

Jan 31, 2012

Tanu rated it:

This book was like a roller coater ride for me and, unlike, Augustus’s ride it doesn’t always go up. So 3.5 stars it is.

The fault in our stars is the story of Augustus and hazel. Both have fought against cancer for the most part of their life. Both know what it feels like and they just connect in their quest. This is green’s first novel from the female perspective and he does a pretty good job. Hazel is a likeable character, not something revolutionary but not the usual kind either. More...

2 comments like (12 people liked it)

Jan 18, 2012

Stevie rated it:

EDIT: I HAVE FINISHED THE BOOK
I'm going to keep this review short for now. This book was amazing and terrible and heart wrenching and hilarious.

Amazing because of the writing style, the deepness of the characters, the underlying (and overlying) themes, and the emotions that it provokes. John Green never fails to write wonderful stories that don't dumb down the harshness of reality yet still hold strong notes of hope.

Terrible because of the reality of the story. I have More...

12 comments like (14 people liked it)

Jan 18, 2012

Madeline rated it:

At age twenty-two, John Green worked as a student chaplain in a children's hospital.

Let's take a moment and consider all the implications of that, and why he is making a colossal understatement when he described the experience as "devastating." That was about twelve years ago, and Green has said in interviews that because of this experience, he's spent twelve years trying to write a book about kids with cancer - not poster children of strength and courage and illness-grant More...

13 comments like (45 people liked it)

Jan 31, 2012

Elizabeth rated it:

Review here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA-6SmMFf...

8 comments like (8 people liked it)

Feb 09, 2012

Eunice rated it:

4.5 stars

This book brought so many smiles in my face and warmed my heart in so many ways. A very poignant and compelling read that would reach deep down inside you. This is a story told with great humor, intelligence and honesty. I cannot fathom how much this book has struck me but I am certain this book has changed something within me after reading it.

I've seen this book in a lot of blogs as one of their most anticipated books for this year. So I read the blurb and...I More...

13 comments like (9 people liked it)

Jan 23, 2012

Lauren rated it:

i need to write this now, when the book is still raw, before i forget the minutiae and the emotion as i get suckered into another text. there will probably be spoilers, i fear. i've never been good at self-censoring, particularly in book reviews. read at your own risk.

first, in full disclosure: i was a little disappointed in the pre-ordering of this novel. yes, i dreamt of yetis and hanklerfishes, but moreover, i dreamt that i'd actually get to read the book on its release date. or t More...

4 comments like (11 people liked it)

Oct 21, 2011

Laura marked it as to-read

Update: 22/10/11
Okay. The cover is so not what I expected. It’s just so…different, compared to the others. I don’t know. It’s not bad, I guess. I like it, I think, but it will take some getting used to. And HOLD ON a minute, why do I see Jodi Picoult’s name on the cover? Oh, John, don’t tell me you’re going all soft on us (for those of you who will take that comment out of context; shut up. You’re in the wrong genre).

You know you're a bestselling author when the font size used More...

4 comments like (14 people liked it)

Jan 23, 2012

Audrey rated it:

It's so much more than a book about cancer kids. It's about more than love and death and the Something that awaits, it's more than Amsterdam and An Imperial Affliction and the idea of sacrifice and nobility, the idea of heroism and the universe, the smallest quirk and the grandest, most metaphorical gesture. You've really outdone yourself here, John Green.

0 comments like (9 people liked it)

Feb 04, 2012

H.D. rated it:

"A poignant, moving novel crafted by a master storyteller. Told through the eyes of an cancer patient with bursts of both laughter and crying, The Fault in Our Stars is sure to become a classic."

I can sum up the Fault in Our Stars perfectly with this picture. It's right on the mark and is the very sole meaning and amazing thing about this poignant, moving novel crafted by a simply astounding, masterful storyteller by the name of John Green. I've met this man. I've shook hands More...

6 comments like (6 people liked it)

Feb 11, 2012

Katya rated it:

The first time I heard about The Fault In Our Stars was in a vlog by John Green, and my thoughts ran along the lines of: "Oh, new book. Nice. Might check it out of the library." And that's that. It wasn't until the early shipping fiasco and the subsequent blog posts that I really considered seeking the book out to see if it was worth all the hype it got .

Look, I like John Green alright, he has his own thing going on. And I admire him for creating a sense of community amongs More...

13 comments like (19 people liked it)

Jan 23, 2012

Tonya rated it:

More like 3.5 stars. It was good, and I get the hype, but I have definite issues with it.

I think I've said this before, but I have a love/meh relationship with John Green. I think he's a fantastic person; I love the vlog brothers and the nerdfighteria and everything he does to uplift and affirm young people. For the most part, I love the characters he writes; it's impossible not to fall for their wit and humor and humanity.

Hazel Grace and Augustus and Isaac and every other More...

23 comments like (25 people liked it)

Jan 18, 2012

Stephen M rated it:

In the immortal words of a 6 foot 3, 230 pound tattoo-covered biker who accosted Don Hertzfeldt after a screening of Hertzfeldt's recent tragic and very sad animated trilogy; "I sobbed like a bitch"

*
Some context seems necessary here. I recently went to the premier of the final chapter of the 'Bill trilogy' by the animator Don Hertzfeldt. He is most famous for Rejected, a series of short animations that are supposedly advertisement rejections for major corporate products. More...

4 comments like (17 people liked it)

Jan 22, 2012

karen rated it:

you have a choice in this world, i believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

john green, like his characters, always makes the funny choice. and readers, like "women" are really just looking for a sense of humor. and the sense of humor goes a long way towards pardoning other sins. because come on, john green - your characters are so unlikely. ordinarily, i would squirm at such clever,verbose,insightful, literary-reference-dropping teenagers. but t More...

35 comments like (50 people liked it)

Jan 20, 2012

Stacia ~ platonic rated it:

While reading Fault in Our Stars, I was struck with a random thought. Why do we (meaning all of us who choose to do this) read books which we know ahead of time are going to turn out sad?

I'm not sure I know the answer to this. Something I do, in fact, know is that I always feel like the stories which make me feel strong emotion are usually the ones I end up remembering long after I've finished.

This book will be no exception. Fault was my second foray into the world of John Gr More...

4 comments like (9 people liked it)

Jan 20, 2012

Michelle rated it:

I thankfully had a completely spoiled-free experience of this book, so I will respect Green's wishes and include no spoilers - even of the tagged variety. (I think they are like Denis the Menace's button or Pandora's box, it is human nature to want to click it - even if we really don't want to!)

The Fault in Our Stars is absolutely Green's best work, and I want to thank him for it. It is witty and funny and sad and angry and true. In Isaac and Hazel and Augustus, an entire group of More...

0 comments like (8 people liked it)

Jan 20, 2012

Wendy F rated it:

There are two reviewers inside me right now. There's one who wants to pick it apart and mention the parts that I thought were maybe overkill. Then there's the other, the bigger part, that was sucked right in by that overkill and who bawled buckets with every word.

That second reviewer wins.

Many reviews tout John Green as a master word smith, and he really really is. Sure, the characters in this book sounded much older and used words that I needed to look up, but is it r More...

6 comments like (4 people liked it)

Jan 28, 2012

Stephanie rated it:

Cancer sucks.

A fact John Greene lays out well in The Fault in our Stars, a story about two teens one terminally ill, Hazel Grace, and another, Augustus Waters who is in remission. Hazel has thyroid cancer which has metastasized into her lungs. All looks as if she is about to die when they try an experimental (and entirely fictional) drug that has only works in about 20% of cancer patients, and she ‘s one of them. It buys her time, the length of which no one knows.

Augus More...

11 comments like (16 people liked it)

Feb 07, 2012

Phoebe rated it:

Reading John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars was not the sobbing, revelatory experience that it seems to have been for so many other readers. Much of this difference is likely biographical. I’m familiar with death, for one thing—dad died when I was 8, grandmother at 12, other grandmother at 18, grandfather at 22, and my mother has struggled off and on with thyroid cancer for the past six years. But it’s not only these death experiences that have changed me. At the age of 21, I was overtaken by a More...

27 comments like (39 people liked it)

Dec 28, 2011

Eva rated it:

You should know that this book will make you cry. A lot. It's a beautifully honest story about death but more importantly about life. Hazel and Augustus are both very clever for their age but as kids living with cancer, they have much more time to reflect than the rest of us. The discussions on mortality and the inevitability of death are very thought provoking but the strongest aspects of the book are those filled with hope. Regardless of whether or not there is a life after death, the characte More...

0 comments like (24 people liked it)

Jan 22, 2012

Justine rated it:

ACTUAL RATING: 3.5 STARS

I adored this book. I read it in a two hour sitting, laughed a lot, teared up a little (I KNOW. ME.), and found myself completely enthralled by the romance that was Hazel and Augusten's.

But here's the the thing: After it was all said and done and I sat back and really thought on it, I have so many problems with The Fault In Our Stars, both technical and stylistic, and they only became more glaring when I went back and reread. So I'm awarding it one More...

5 comments like (9 people liked it)

Feb 08, 2012

Tee rated it:

I was annoyed sometimes but mostly I wept. Halfway through the book, I was in denial that this book was actually affecting me but tears were clawing their way out of my tearducts and when my mother turned up to visit unannounced, I had to blame my watery eyes on the flu I am currently cursed with. I was sitting on the balcony, chest heavy with emotion, watching my kids and tearful at how perfectly wonderful they are and hoping that they never got cancer when I realised that perhaps this book was More...

0 comments like (3 people liked it)

Jan 28, 2012

Book Peek rated it:

Conventional stories of cancer victims focus on their inspiring hope, faith, and strength. Forget that. At the end of the day, none of us would be happy campers if we were inflicted with the big “C.” Anyone who has seen a loved one go through the pains of cancer can attest to the awful affects it has on patients.

John Green understands this and allows his characters to show the truth about humanity. His honesty in how patients feel on the day-to-day basis and the roller-coaster of em More...

0 comments like (4 people liked it)