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$3.99 for Kindle...don't know for how long.
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I read this in one day.
The biggest weakness in this book is that these are not realistic teenage characters. They are way too educated, philosophical, existentialist, hipster, to be high schoolers. They would be pushing it to be late 20-something graduate students, with doctorates in philosophy or literature. The dialogue is not realistic, their behaviors are not realistic, and thus, I spent a lot of time being annoyed and rolling my eyes at the pretentiousness.
The strength of the novel is that ...more
The biggest weakness in this book is that these are not realistic teenage characters. They are way too educated, philosophical, existentialist, hipster, to be high schoolers. They would be pushing it to be late 20-something graduate students, with doctorates in philosophy or literature. The dialogue is not realistic, their behaviors are not realistic, and thus, I spent a lot of time being annoyed and rolling my eyes at the pretentiousness.
The strength of the novel is that ...more
Read this entire book in a night, couldn't put it down. Hesitated to pick it up at first, due to the fact that I knew it was going to be about cancer and a child. I loved the perspective that the book was written. I could sympathize with the main character having such strong ties and wonder to the characters in her favorite book. Her limited/forced social interactions after being pulled from school by her parents due to her illness, would easily cause such strong feelings/ties with the character
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Hazel is a teenager living with cancer. Thanks to a miracle drug, her cancer is currently under control but her lungs don't work the way they should. During one of her support group meetings she meets Augustus, a cancer survivor who lost his leg to the disease. Soon Hazel and Augustus begin a romance, but Hazel struggles with the idea of getting close to someone when your disease may cause them pain in the end. Green does a great job of writing from the point of view of teenagers struggling with
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I happened to see a preview of the movie that is based upon this book..I thought it would be better to read the book first. I thought the book was fantastic! I look forward to seeing the movie and reading other books by this amazing author!!!!
Jul 23, 2013
Katie
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Rebekah
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