The Fault in Our Stars in Buddy Read Zone

Oct 10, 2012 Clarifina ~Books Are My Drugs~ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: books-i-love-like-chocolate, i-was-a-sobbing-mess, ya, sweet-guys, messed-with-my-emotions, depressing-as-hell, made-my-heart-hurt, never-forget-as-long-as-i-live, beautifully-written-books, books-that-spoke-to-me

Can't....form....a... Coherent sentence right now. Will do a review soon after my tears stop rolling down my cheeks in an endlessly flowing river.

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Warning!: This book is NOT for the faint-hearted. Those who read this book must be prepared to be emotionally scarred by it and to cry their eyeballs out of their sockets. If you are prepared for hours of puffy and red eyes, do proceed and read this tear-jerker of a book.

This is me after I finish reading The Fault in Our Stars.
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Sep 13, 2012 Annie Brewer rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorite, 5-star-worthy, unforgettable, favorite-authors, tearjerker, emotionally-devastating, death

God. I just. I can't. *breaks down in sobs*

Not sure when I'll have it in me to write a review. I'm seriously broken. ...more

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Jan 25, 2013 ✟Roxanne✟(Death by Book Avalanche) ☠ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ng-paperback, m-f, ng-novel, 2014-reading-challenge, borrowed-from-library

I admit I got swept up into the hype with this book, I try my best to keep an open mind and a balanced opinion when a book becomes massively popular and so with this review I will be giving my honest opinion whilst ignoring the numerous glowing reviews I have read.
I must say that I really enjoyed this book (that's if you can say 'enjoy' when reading a book about Cancer) and I found myself thinking about it constantly after I finished reading. I went to sleep thinking about it and I woke up thin ...more

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Jan 21, 2013 Mochaspresso rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ya-fiction, cancer, books-to-movies

Hazel Grace and Augustus are teen cancer patients who meet at a support group for cancer survivors. Hazel Grace's lungs are so poor that she walks with an oxygen tank and nasal cannula during the day and has to sleep hooked up to a machine that drains fluid from her lungs and helps her to breathe at night. Augustus has lost his leg to cancer. His best friend, Isaac, lost his eyesight to cancer. I loved the character of Hazel Grace. The literary teen role model police might have some issues with Hazel Grace and Augustus are teen cancer patients who meet at a support group for cancer survivors. Hazel Grace's lungs are so poor that she walks with an oxygen tank and nasal cannula during the day and has to sleep hooked up to a machine that drains fluid from her lungs and helps her to breathe at night. Augustus has lost his leg to cancer. His best friend, Isaac, lost his eyesight to cancer. I loved the character of Hazel Grace. The literary teen role model police might have some issues with her, but I think she's very "real" in the sense that she is a typical angst ridden teen. She gets frustrated with her parents. She secretly resents the healthy looking cancer survivors in her support group and wonders why they get a miracle while she doesn't. She's not really "fighting" cancer like the euphemism suggests. She's already resigned herself to the fact that she doesn't have long to live and that cancer is a battle that she can't "win". All the medicines and machines do is buy her a little more time.
Time that she learns to value over the course of the book. When it starts, she's living each day preparing herself for the fact that she's going to die soon. That's not really "living". Toward the end, she starts to actually and literally live each day. That's what I loved most about this book. It's a cheesy sentiment, but that age old question of "Are you dying to live or living to die?" (2Pac song lyric!!) is profoundly true, in my opinion.

I readily admit that my opinion of this book is based primarily on how it made me feel and it's ability to make me feel rather than on any technical aspects of how well it was written. The book probably does have issues that a more discerning reader might find fault in. I can understand why some say that there is too much purple prose or that the characters are flat or that the teen voices of Hazel Grace and Augustus seem a little stodgy and off. Despite that, I'm still inclined to say that if someone had the ability to read this book in it's entirety and not feel any empathy toward the main characters, something may be wrong with them.

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Sep 03, 2012 Ellelou rated it really liked it

3.5 stars

...ummm, that dialogue... I will have to come back and write something about that.

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May 19, 2013 Vaughn rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: must-read, all-time-favotrites, ya, 2014-challenges

Give me a moment......

Moments later.....

There are books that make us laugh. There are books that take us away to wonderful places only imagined and dreamed about. Ones that take us out of our comfort zones and those that scare the pants off us. Then there are those that are so real to the world around us that we cannot help but cry and break and inevitably, feel. This is one of those books.
I put off reading this book because I thought I knew how it ended. I thought that that knowledge would brin ...more

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May 30, 2012 Rabbit {Paint me like one of your 19th century gothic heroines!} marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: blood-in-the-water

I have been avoiding reading this book for years, because I feel like I could go either way on this book (and his other books tbh). I will either love this book or I am going to hate it with the intensity of a thousand suns.

Feeling this way normally doesn't make me feel bad, its weird. I guess when this fandom makes the twilight fandom seems rational (granted all fandoms have their rabid fans and their more rational fans). I don't want to hate this book and incur the wrath of teenagers (I reall ...more

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Aug 03, 2012 BookCupid rated it it was amazing

Shelves: own, contemporary, favorites

A lady approached me on a parc bench today and asked why I was crying.
I pointed at the book.
"Really," she said, "a book is making you cry?"
"Yes," I told her. "I challenge anyone to read this book and not shed a tear." ...more

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Sep 26, 2012 Dana ****Reads Alot**** rated it it was amazing

Shelves: books-read-in-2012

I read this in bout 2 hours, it is only 198 pages but by the end of this book I was a sobbing mess!! Loved it!!! Sad but worth reading.

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May 31, 2012 Lisa rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, tear-jerker, books-to-movies

This book was fantistic. From page one to the last page I couldn't stop reading. John Green is an excellent writer and I will be checking out his other books. This was a heart felt love/friendship between two 16 year old cancer patients. If you think this would be a deprssing book you are wrong. I felt myself smiling through 90% of the book. I highly recomment it!!! ...more

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