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Beautiful and devastating. And like all John Green's books - not to be read in public unless weeping in public doesn't bother you.
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I liked this book, I cried when I read it and I enjoyed the characters, but sometimes I felt like the emotions were cheap... too clever or something? Don't get me wrong, I think it was a great read, but I like other books I've read by John Green better.
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John Green has done it again. He's written a refreshingly honest and respectful book - not just about teens, but about young love, grief, family, friendship, dying, and the small moments in life that offer hope even in the darkest of times. This book is sweet, funny, heartbreaking, surprising and predictable - hmmm, which is a lot like what it's really like to be sixteen.
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OK, so obviously this book is going to be sad. I mean, it’s a book about two teenagers with cancer, so melancholy and the infinite sadness is basically a given. However, what is so dazzlingly spectacular about this book is that it is simultaneously really, really sad and really, really hilarious. John Green, who already has one Printz under his belt for Looking for Alaska,tackles this incredibly difficult subject matter with his trademark snark and wit tempered with a sensitivity toward and unde
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Jul 12, 2012
Isabel
marked it as to-read

Dec 29, 2012
Becki
marked it as to-read