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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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Apr 13, 2012 taeli rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audiobook, library-book

finished in audio 6/7/12

This book was highly talked about online (mostly on Twitter and LJ) by friends and it took me a while to actually get the book from the library. (I put it on hold in both text and audio formats and they both came at the same time. I ended up listening to the audio version because I am able to listen at work and has less time to devote to sitting down and actually reading things.) It's only 6 discs long, so I was able to get through more than half of it in the first day an ...more

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Sep 07, 2013 Melissa rated it it was amazing

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Sep 27, 2012 Nina rated it it was amazing

Shelves: novel, fiction, ya

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. As with _An Abundance of Katherines_, John Green's characters speak with clear, memorable voices. I loved the characters--teenagers Hazel and Augustus. They were scared and brave and vulnerable and believable, not that I know what it's like to face cancer as a teenager or at any age. I love, also, how their bookishness and love of language brings them together.

When Augustus walks into the support group and tells his peers that he's on a rollercoaster going nowhere but up, we go up and up with th ...more

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Dec 26, 2013 Amy rated it liked it

One shouldn't expect a happy ending when reading a book about two teenagers with a terminal illness falling in love. Regardless, I don't recommend reading this in public.

It's a coming of age tale, sped up by the potential of a short life. A look into the thoughts and feelings of people who feel the end near, thus focus on the things which are important to them. As one of those things is a novel, this book did ring all my bells. It glazes over the more adult part of it's YA label. When I was the ...more

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Jan 09, 2014 Sarah rated it really liked it

Shelves: american-fiction, fiction

Ok, I finally listened to my students and read this - in less than 24 hours - and they're right. It's good. Green's one-liners are classic, even if his teenagers are always unbelievably-precocious, and I love him for attempting to deal with very weighty topics in YA fiction that does not read like a soap opera as so much other YA fiction attempting to deal with these issues does. As with Looking for Alaska, I laughed out loud many times. However, I think I may have liked Looking for Alaska bette ...more

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May 24, 2012 Lori rated it really liked it

Shelves: teen, book-club

It's always tough going into one of these books when you know it's going to hurt. There just aren't many cheery books about kids with cancer. But this book isn't about cancer as much as life and about the kid's and I liked them, and I liked reading their stories. ...more

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Jul 10, 2012 Jill rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ya, realistic

Augustus Waters, while not the protagonist, is one of those characters that will stay with me for a long time. I think that's one of John Green's greatest strengths as an author, the ability to create characters that feel totally real. ...more

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