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Absolutely loved this book. Funny and sad, all at the same time. This was my first time reading a John Green book, and I'm definitely going to be picking up the others very soon. The Fault In Our Stars in no way talks down to teens, but rather talks to them in a voice that is so fantastically spot-on. Yes, this is a book about cancer, but it's also just a book about teens and true love. Definitely one of my favourite books I've read this year.
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Your EARS Will Be WET with the steady trickle of tears. . . . so Don't try to finish this while reclining in bed. Cuddled in bed is a comforting, safe place to read sad endings...but . . . .
I knew this "would not end well", yet it is well worth reading.
I tend to race through books to see "how they turn out", and did the same with this one, even knowing it would be a final helping of "sad".
Sad because that's the subject matter, but not depressing or difficult to read.
This is a book I may read ...more
I knew this "would not end well", yet it is well worth reading.
I tend to race through books to see "how they turn out", and did the same with this one, even knowing it would be a final helping of "sad".
Sad because that's the subject matter, but not depressing or difficult to read.
This is a book I may read ...more
Loved this book.
I'm not one to cry while reading books, and I didn't while listening to The Fault in Our Stars as an audiobook. That doesn't mean, though, that the book didn't move me. I initially was sort of determined not to like it - or at least, went into it with some skepticism, hoping upon hope that it wouldn't be like "A Walk to Remember" (during which I spent most of my time rolling my eyes - I know, I have no heart). And very thankfully, it was not. Phew. Instead, I got a poignant story about two teena
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Deserves all the hype. Okay, probably not all the saccharine "the characters are So Special" and "This Book Will Change Your Life Because Life". (I'm betting those sentiments would make Augustus and Hazel puke, btw.)
But as someone who had to first deal with life-changing, debilitating chronic illness as a YA, Green nails the voices of the young and ill.
But this ain't a story about the power of being strong or whatever. It's a love story. And it works. Definitely recommended. ...more
But as someone who had to first deal with life-changing, debilitating chronic illness as a YA, Green nails the voices of the young and ill.
But this ain't a story about the power of being strong or whatever. It's a love story. And it works. Definitely recommended. ...more
John Green, you have written another incredible, smart book. I hope you get some fancy medals for it.
Jun 08, 2012
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