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The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

Start date: January 12, 2015

Finish date: January 15, 2015

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Mar 26, 2013 aimee rated it it was amazing

In the best possible way, some books devastate and strip you back to your bones. They make you cry great, shuddering sobs that come from some yawning abyss you don't know is there most of the time.

This was one of those books for me.

It hit close to home for me - the main character, Hazel, started off with thyroid problems (just like me) and then got better (just like me) and one of her favourite, life affirming poems is The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock (just like me).

Reading this book was li ...more

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Aug 28, 2015 Kecia rated it liked it

Shelves: usa, book-riot-2015

Let's just get this out in the open. I did not cry. That's not the right answer, I know. But I did not cry.

I had a lot of emotions while reading this book, but over all I just felt like it was a cheap shot. Two perfect kids from perfect families who have a terrible disease fall in love and then one dies. That is just cheap. It's manipulative. It almost made me mad.

Even so, while it may be shallow, and romanticizes cancer, and dishes up totally unrealistic characters, it is sort of sweet. OK, may ...more

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Apr 15, 2012 Gwennie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: teens

Beautiful and wrenching. And I am very irked at the colleagues who recommended it,because they did not also provide tissues.

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Mar 19, 2012 Ms. McGregor rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ya, spirituality, philosophy, drama

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. ...more

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Jan 23, 2013 Alvin rated it liked it

Shelves: audiobook

If I were a young adult, I would rate this book 4 stars. As an adult who likes to read YA fiction, I can't give it more than a 3. The pretension was a bit much for my tastes. But I work with teenagers, and understand the magnitude of events in this time of their lives. John Green nails it, in that regard. What got me the most was the parent/child relationship, especially in the context of the terminal disease. As a parent, I found it heart wrenching to go through parts of the book. ...more

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Jan 14, 2023 Anne rated it really liked it

Intentionally avoided reading this for years because I don’t like crying over books as much as I used to. I worried it would be cheap in its sentimentality. Then a friend gave this to me as a Christmas present and I couldn’t help myself. Whew. I survived, but my reading experience was not without plentiful tissues. I’m still sorting out how to think about the sentimental aspects because—for me at this point in my reading life—thinking about feeling in a reading experience is entirely wrapped up ...more

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