The Fault in Our Stars in Reading with Style

Jun 18, 2013 Alicia Gordon rated it it was amazing

Shelves: made-me-laugh, favorites, young-adult, tearjerkers

Review to come. Currently in broken-sobbing-and-eating-everything-in-the-pantry stage.

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Updated review: I'm writing this while my boyfriend is talking to his doctor. He has cancer himself and when a doctor wants to talk to you, you know something terrible is about to be revealed. This crazy, nervous, terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach won't cease, so I figured writing a review might distract me a bit. For obvious reasons, this book deeply touched me while ...more

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Feb 11, 2013 Chinook rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1-kindle

"Neither novels nor their readers benefit from attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species "

And so starts off a very book-driven story, which I hadn't been expecting. Characters bond over books, talking about how exciting it is to live in an infinite fiction. I was also surprised by how funny the book is. The line "Your driving is unpleasant, but it isn't t ...more

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Oct 30, 2013 Jayme(theghostreader) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 5-star-books, young-adult

I really enjoyed this book. I found out about this book last year. I didn't know much about it. I loved how the book was about two teenagers going through the same diagnosis of cancer and how they lived for today and fell in love. I really felt they loved each other. I thought it was sweet of Augustus to use his wish to take Hazel to Amsterdam to meet the author of their favorite book. What I didn't like was the author of the book they were reading. He is a jerk. He didn't want to answer their q ...more

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Aug 12, 2012 Juniper rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: effing-awesome, owned, 2012-books

what a great book. this is the sort of book that i wish more teen readers - i'd say it's good for sort of 14/15ish and up, there's a (view spoiler) so...that's to be a consideration - (and adults who prefer YA) would pick-up and read...rather than so much of that other stuff passing for literature in the YA segment of the market. this book elevates the genre.

green has created some wonderful characters and a great story. difficult, yes. but life is difficul ...more

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Jan 28, 2013 Athira (Reading on a Rainy Day) rated it really liked it

Shelves: source-library, aud-ya, format-print, fiction, f-general, 2013

This book doesn't really need any extra publicity. It's one of the most loved books from last year and after finishing it, I could see why. I didn't love it as much, but I definitely would highly recommend this book for this reason - despite being about cancer, there is so much strength, humor, power of the human spirit and most importantly, genuine people in this book. Cancer is no stranger in my family and it's still not a word we would utter carelessly or unfeelingly around here. I don't know ...more

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Dec 06, 2012 d rated it it was ok

I rate this as a two star thing - not because I like it - but because I think it's okay for what it is: a young adult novel where the teens don't actually respond like teenagers, but respond the way teenagers wish they could. It's overly dramatic about the subject matter and is - in pretty much every way - not great literature. But...it's young adult, and if I were 12 or 13 again, I'd probably think it was the bee's knees. As a not-young-adult, though, meh. If you're a parent looking to read wha ...more

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