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I have avoided this book like the plague. Oh, a YA book that has millions of teenage girls sniffling amongst themselves and wondering who will play who in the movie version? No thanks. Lurlene McDaniel cured me of ever having to read about dying teenagers again. Or so I thought. There are just so many great reviews about this book, and from people whose opinions about literature I highly value...And then there was this terrible bout of insomnia that struck on Friday night, and what was I suppose
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Surprisingly enjoyable book about the relationship between two cancer kids. But definitely more than that. And it is set in Indianapolis!
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
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John Green is a ruthless Hoosier bastard. By all rights, and given who I am, I should be weeping like mad as I sit here having finished this beautiful novel. I cried in Amsterdam, but here at the end I'm left with the a sort of contented emptiness, because that's all I can be after all of that.
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So, I enjoyed reading this and sobbed at the end. Mostly because it made me nostalgic for my middle school and high school years. Gus's fake cigarette habit and the language of both sort of drove me nuts at times the same way Dawson and Joey's did (totally stealing the comparison to Dawson's Creek from Jess A's review). My nostalgia also may stem from the fact that I read a lot of Lurlene McDaniel books (girl gets terminal illness, falls in love, dies) when I was in middle school and loved them
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I just finished this book, and I freely admit that I am a mess. It was sad and poignant without feeling affected or preachy. Despite the death, it's not a book about dying. It's a book about living with the side effects of death.
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4.5 stars. Cried my eyes out. Extremely well plotted. Dialogue was sort of like watching Dawson's Creek, but I still loved it.
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