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The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

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Sep 05, 2014 Michael rated it it was amazing

It’s a story of two teenagers falling in love and dying of cancer.

Not the sort of book I would get near unless someone had a gun to the head of my dog, and even then I’d consider the virtues of a new puppy.

But I’d heard it was good and I have a tendency to read the first paragraph, or at least the first sentence of any book. So as I passed by the display at the Barnes and Noble I picked it up and read the first sentence. A little long, but good — good enough to get me to read the first page. I ...more

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Jul 01, 2013 Jennifer rated it it was amazing

Ok, I realize that (most) teenagers are not this clever and/or witty, and that there was probably some emotional manipulation going on, but I don't care. I love this book. I do think that while I would most definitely recommend it to a young adult reader, that the true richness of the story might only come thru to a parent or to a person with more life experience than a typical kid - which is ok! Very highly recommended.

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Jun 15, 2014 Kim rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I'd give this a 3.5 star rating if possible. I think part of it was that by time I read it the thing was so overhyped that it was impossible to come in without expectations. But I felt as if I could have told you what would have happened in the story from the first twenty or so pages. I also felt like Augustus was a fairly one-dimensional character. Perhaps that's what tipped me off to the fate of he and Hazel was the way in which he was presented. I get it, they're teenagers so everyone is over ...more

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Dec 20, 2012 Pang rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: tob, fiction, tob2013

This is such a emotionally-intense book! I must admit that when I picked it up I had no idea what I will be reading. All I knew was that it'd received a good rating. After a few chapters I realized that this may not be a literacy great kind of book, plus the plot is a little... cheesy. You know, boy meets girl, girl meets boy, they have crushes on each other; your typical adolescent, puppy love. But it got a twist: everyone got cancer. I told one of my workers about this book, and he said it sou This is such a emotionally-intense book! I must admit that when I picked it up I had no idea what I will be reading. All I knew was that it'd received a good rating. After a few chapters I realized that this may not be a literacy great kind of book, plus the plot is a little... cheesy. You know, boy meets girl, girl meets boy, they have crushes on each other; your typical adolescent, puppy love. But it got a twist: everyone got cancer. I told one of my workers about this book, and he said it sounds depressing because it's a cancer book. I insisted that it wouldn't be, hoping to myself that it wouldn't be, but it was and I really, really enjoy it. When there's great bawling involved, I considered the book great in my book!

As I said, I thought the plot is a little cheesy, but it's still different with everyone having cancer. There was something innocence in there somewhere, and that just made me sad but felt blessed at the same time. The two main and one somewhat main characters--Hazel Grace, Augustus, and Isaac--seemed to all have each other's back. They understand what it's like to have this disease. They have strong family core, but yet the three of them form another kind of family. It's like cancer was their bond, and they were in this secret society together. But they knew that in their secret society, someone will die sooner than later. It was inevitable. They dealt with that fact as best as teenagers could have, and they understand every day counts. That's why their puppy-love didn't bother me as much, because I felt it was real. Gus and Hazel were real because they knew they only have each other. Their disabilities--his 1.4 leg and her wheeling oxygen cart around--cemented their feeling toward one another. Monica, on the other hand, couldn't possibly understand this and bolted away from blinded little Isaac.

Everyone in this tale has a rock-solid hamartia: hers, that she is so sock; yours, that you are so well. Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed.

But their stars did cross, and they made it the best of their short time together as they possibly could. I'm still a little torn on how I really feel about the book. It's so depressing, yet it's loving. I'll be thinking/talking about this book for a little while. ...more

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Nov 02, 2014 Jennifer W rated it really liked it

Shelves: ya, 50-states-ya

Wonderful book. What more can be said about it that hasn't been said already? ...more

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Feb 08, 2013 Courtney rated it it was amazing

Shelves: young-adult, romance

I loved this book, and this is a perfect example of "sad, but not depressing" to me. That is a hard line to stay on one side of for me with entertainment. I can do sad, I can't do depressing. This book is sad, yes I cried, more than once. It is a book about cancer patients afterall. But it wasn't depressing because I enjoyed the characters so much, and it is a book about so much more than cancer. ...more

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