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“What’s that?” Anna asked.
“Water,” the Dutchman said, “Well, and time.” - Peter Van Houten, An Imperial Affliction
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal...
You keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love? ...more
This book was so John Green-y. I think I have to stop reading his books because they're all the same to me now. The characters spoke in such an annoyingly verbose style and they seemed so FAKE, and like they were just cancer-ridden versions of his previous characters. The Peter van Houten bits in the end were contrived. It was still an alright book, I guess. Even though the lines were so frickin' stupidly metaphoric and whatever, some of them of them were kind of nice. I did cry when Augustus d
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Mar 31, 2012
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I don't want to rate this. I only want to say, 1) waterworks, and 2)the writing wasn't that good. There were 2 voices: teenager and adult, and everyone in the book had one of these voices - the adult with the teenager voice being, of course, the seemingly cold but finally relatable adult, van Houten.
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A John Green novel on my night stand has about the same shelf life as. a pint of Ben & Jerrys in my freezer; I can't stop until either is devoured. Greens latest effort does not disappoint. Well drawn characters that are real and funny, a great storyline that you care about until the last juicy word and an ending that's hopeful and real. Another gem!
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John Green somehow managed to write a book about kids with cancer that is brutally honest and not the least bit pandering or indulgent. He also left me with some thoughts about life and death that I think will stay with me for quite some time. I highly recommend this book.
I couldn't give it 5 stars for the sole reason that it was so painful. That's me being selfish.
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