The Fault in Our Stars
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Am I the only one who didn't cry that much?
I didn't cry at all during the movie. I heard girls blowing their noses like warthogs in the back of the movie theater but I am proud (well I don't know about Proud... but defiantly sure)that no tear was shed by me.
Naturally, I am not a big crier... I used to be, but I think that my tears are now for the soul purpose of physical pain. The movie was by far the saddest I have ever seem (Except maybe The Help) but maybe that's why I didn't cry. Because it was so sad to the point that I knew it couldn't be real.
Naturally, I am not a big crier... I used to be, but I think that my tears are now for the soul purpose of physical pain. The movie was by far the saddest I have ever seem (Except maybe The Help) but maybe that's why I didn't cry. Because it was so sad to the point that I knew it couldn't be real.
Ellica wrote: "I mean it was really sad, but I guess I just knew someone was going to die and that it was going to be really sad so I didn't actually cry that much. Just a little teary eyed :) Or maybe I just don..."I didn't cry much, either. I haven't seen the film yet, though; perhaps, that will have more of an effect on me. I predicted the ending pretty early into the novel, so it didn't come as a shock to me.
I didn't , although I haven't cried when reading a book or watching a movie for as long as I can remember. I guess I'm just cold hearted.
There are many people who didn't cry watching/reading TFIOS. I didn't for sure and I felt somewhat guilty i didnt cry. I felt like a robot and everyone else has feelings. But that is not true at all. I remember I read a book for school in 6th grade called "Where the Red Fern Grows" and ended up crying for 2 hours. The thing is some people dont cry as much in books because of the state they are in at the moment. If you understand what I mean.
I didn't cry that much either. It was sad, but I "cry on the inside." I'm going to go see the movie today, and I'm afraid that it's going to be sadder.
I think I've cried twice while watching a movie and never while reading a book. I've screamed reading books, I've shook while reading them, I've danced around at the happy bits, but I don't cry. I've watched John Green's YouTube channel for ages before the book came out, knew about it before it's release, but I still waited until a few months ago to read The Fault in Our Stars. Maybe the hype ruined it for me, maybe it's reading similar quirky-styles, plots, and characters on wattpad and similar sites, but I just didn't love this book. I liked it, sure, but I'm not going to go out and buy a shirt or phone case and bring tissues to the movie theater like all these other people did. It read and felt like chick-lit to me, to be honest. There's the intelligent thought here and there but I wasn't disheartened. Maybe I'm just a Positive Paula (lol not), but this was just a sort-of sad book to me.
i didn't cry either only teared up at the end, but its was expected you sort of know that someone has to die because of the main subject. book was just ok not great 2 1/2 stars
Bookworm wrote: "i didn't cry either only teared up at the end, but its was expected you sort of know that someone has to die because of the main subject. book was just ok not great 2 1/2 stars"just wondering but if you said it's 2 1/2 stars then why did you rate it 5 stars
I didn't cry the first time I read it, which is saying something, because I cry while reading books and watching movies ALL THE TIME. I think one of the reasons that I did not cry was because I was spoiled before I read the book, so I already knew who died and was able to prepare myself emotionally so that it didn't come as such a tragic blow. I also think that a reason that so many people did not cry is because you are reading from Hazel's POV. Hazel is a character who doesn't really want people to feel bad for her or want to hurt people, and I think that comes across to the reader as well. I did, however, cry the second time I read the book and while watching the movie.
Lauren wrote: "After reading all of the comments I feel alienated by the fact that most people didn't actually cry. I must just be a really emotional person because I couldn't stop crying. it was heartbreaking! A..."I agree! The thing that made me the most emotional was not the death of the character in the book, but rather putting myself in Hazel's shoes. The reality of the situation was the saddening part for me.
Lauren wrote: "After reading all of the comments I feel alienated by the fact that most people didn't actually cry. I must just be a really emotional person because I couldn't stop crying. it was heartbreaking! A..."Same here! I must be too because I cried even before the book was over, and at the movie,also. I'm glad someone else feels the same way I do, I completely agree!
Ellica wrote: "I mean it was really sad, but I guess I just knew someone was going to die and that it was going to be really sad so I didn't actually cry that much. Just a little teary eyed :) Or maybe I just don..."Ellica, you do have a heart, nothing's wrong with u, and u are not the only one who did not cried that much
You only don't have a heart if you didn't cry and you didn't read the book. If you read it, then you obviously knew what to expect so it's okay to not have cried. But Ansel Elgort was perfect and I bawled my eyes out because I'm a huge cry baby.
Jemma wrote: "I didn't cry also, but I think that's because the story isn't meant to be tragic. It's meant to be a celebration of life - the short time they were together was worth the "grenade". So it's a happy..." I totally agree.
I don't think I will cry. I had read the plot on Wikipedia before I bought the book and I'm currently in the middle of it now and I'm not really sad
A few days ago, I thought I'd read The Fault In Our Stars. I was excited, happy and kind of proud of myself that I would be taking a break from reading the same book series over and over, and I was happy to find a book that I expected to be deep, and something that would captivate me and then break my heart, make me live the book through as I always do with a good story, relate to the characters, feel their pain, feel their joy.At the start, it sounded fairly good, since you don't really expect much to happen at the start. But as I read further and further, I started to realise that I was pushing myself to read the book, rather than it pulling me into it. I had made a vow to myself that I would read the whole book before I started reading something else, and really had to talk myself out of doing just that.
The characters had no depth, they were just like a name on a piece of paper. I didn't know them, and I didn't really feel like there was that much to know about them. The concept of the book itself is sad, but I do not feel that the book tells the story in a way for it to make me feel something more than very distant emotions.
I am a very sensitive person, and am highly capable of starting to cry about something horrible or sad happening to someone I do not know. I didn't cry this time. I felt that the story line was flat and was getting nowhere. I felt that instead of a story being told, the facts of the actions were stated, unemotional. Most of the time, when Hazel should have been feeling inexpressible sadness, nothing of the sort was mentioned, and it just made the characters seem emotionless.
I also think that Augustus just... fell in love with her out of the blue, and that there wasn't really a build up in the story. It just went by a straight line and it felt so superficial.
I love reading and writing. Books are practically my life. I read at least five hours a day and my life would have a point without a stack of books.
I didn't enjoy this book. It bored me and made me roll my eyes, waiting for the characters to saying the same things over and over again.
I do not have any personal experience with cancer, only that my friend's Mum died of it when I was small. I am not saying that cancer is not a sad matter, and I am not heartless to not find this book sad. I just think that it did not do justice to the idea, and it is not a very good book. Much worse than the book it could have been.
Amy wrote: "I didn't cry either, no. I knew Gus was going to die (can't avoid spoilers when you're on the internet as much as I am), and as much as I loved the him, I just didn't. Then again, the only time I'..."
I cry about Sirius every single time. Waterfalls. That's what happens when they kill your favorite character. Though, the seventh time I read the books I cried about Moody, too... yeah, I guess I'm too sensitive... :D
lolol it kinda bored me. like yeah I teared up and stuff but some parts just wanted me to get up and walk up and walk out of the theater
I didn't cry at all, i feel like i have no heart. Every one of my friends tell me how they balled their eyes out and how it was so sad and it took time to get over the death and heartbreak as well as the shock but no I didn't cry. It was very very sad though...Then I went to see the movie and i definitely thought I would at least get teary over the characters and their very real emotions but no, all my friends crying next to me and all i can do is stare and just watch them cry! I don't really know why......
I guess it just depends on who you are..
I told my friends that I didnt cry much and they turned around and were calling me heartless and bashing me about how i didn't 'get what the book was saying.' Well, no. I got the message loud and clear, but I don't think the amount of tears you spill over a book concludes your overall understanding and appreciation of the book. Like, do they think there is this 'Crying-Meter' where the more you cry, the more you understand what the book is trying to say?
Nope. I refuse to believe that just because I spilled maybe a couple drops of tears that I didn't get what John Green was trying to say.
The honest truth to why i didn't cry that much, is because I didn't connect to the characters and I never really felt like they were 'real'. To me there wasn't much going on, and i wasn't, truth be told, that into it. Thats the reason i didn't cry. Not because of my stone-cold emotions or my lack of skill to understand a book, but because I honestly didn't like the book that much.
Woah, I kinda had a big rant there sorry about that! I was really pissed off at what my friends said, so i needed to vent.
I only cried a little bit but not at the part most people cried at. I got a little teary eyed after Gus died and Hazel was arguing with her mum :/ I think it was the bit when her mum was upset that when Hazel died she wouldn't be a mum anymore.I related to that relationship between mother and daughter more than the rest of the book. Also, before I had even started reading I knew Gus was going to die -I hadn't read spoilers either, to me it was obvious but there you go :)
When I read the book I didn't cry, but I got tears in my eyes.. When I saw the movie everything felt so real so I cried almost the entire movie..
I loved the story, and to be totally honest, I didn't think anyone was going to die, and if they did I thought it was going to be Hazel, even though the film has nothing to do with the book, i cried more at the book than the film!
Yasmin wrote: "wow it must be tired if you cried for entire movie..i mean it's about 130 minutes..."haha, I only cried when Augustus said his cancer returned, and of course when he died!
▪▮CᴜʀsᴇᴛᴇᴇN▮▪ wrote: "I didn't cry much, too. I failed to connect with both Hazel and Gus. I know, I know... what's wrong with me? I really have no idea."It's not just you. I didn't connect with them either. They seemed TOO quirky/hipster to be real. That's the best way for me to say it. Too introspective and wise beyond their years.
I actually never even considered the possibility of there being something wrong with me. I just think the book is as flat as it's pages.
I loved the book a lot.There was a strange simplicity to all of it that caught me off guard.But I didn't cry.I'm not the crying type i suppose.But my friends like to say I'm soulless though.They might be onto something.
Yasmin wrote: "Ellie wrote:"haha, I only cried when Augustus said his cancer returned, and of course when he died!"In the book i cried a lot,i cried a river over this book mostly when August pissed his bed and ..."
I agree with you so much, I cried over the book so much, it made me such a emotional wreck!
Yeah, I did not cry during this either, i cried in the movie but not the book.
No i didn't cry at all i'm not that emotional i loved the book though it's great!
I didn't cry at all, but that's actually really out of character for me seeing as I sobbed like a child through out the entire Madoka Magica anime series.
No, I didn't cry, either. I was spoiled before I read the book, but even then, I'm not much of a crier when it comes to books, or anything for that matter. The only book I cried reading was Allegiant...
not a tear. not one single tear. the only way i can describe this book is "meh"it was good, not GREAT. i had too high expectations for it maybe
I liked the book but I didn't cry at all. I mean it was sad, but it wasn't as if if you didn't expect they were going to die. I mean, that was the whole point!
I didn't cry though the book but I did cry though the movie I don't know why really but it just happens.
This thread makes me feel less like a monster because everyone I know who read it cried but I just wasn't that into it.
Ellica wrote: "I mean it was really sad, but I guess I just knew someone was going to die and that it was going to be really sad so I didn't actually cry that much. Just a little teary eyed :) Or maybe I just don..."You're not the only one! I didn't cry, but I really enjoyed the book. It felt like a fresh, clever approach to a hard topic, but like you said you expected sad. I went in knowing Hazel was terminal and I didn't feel overly emotional about the outcome, although of course it was sad!
i read the book........watched the movie cried like a baby......4 days later still crying everytime i think or talk about it or see a picture of something related to it
I thought the book was... Ok/awful. Throughout the book, I tried to force myself to cry, because all my friends had cried, so I was like 'okay, I think in need to start crying this bit...come on, cry.. Almost there..no.'
I don't know if the spoiler of the book cause me not to cry for the ending. Not even teary eyed. It just made me sad.
A great book but I didn't cry. Want to see the film now.
i didnt cry because i first saw the movie ( i know stupid) and i totally regret that because when i was reading it i didnt saw my own characters in my head (how the looked) but how the looked in the movie (sorry for the bad english ..)
I would lie if I said I cried. I really thought this book was amazing not emotional enough for me to cry but I know some people who read this and really cried.
i didn't cry...i don't think that i can really, cry to a book? and i knew that he was going to die and all that! but also i think my expectations was too high..i really like the book, but i don't think that it is THAT amazing like everyone seems to think? :) what about you?
I think the hype is way to much. The book is kinda crappy.Everyone makes out like it's the best book to have ever been published EVER and I'm like um..... No.
I cried... a lot...
I'm so glad I'm not the only one! I felt kind of heartless for not crying. But the thing is I don't often cry in books. In movies? I sob, if it's sad, happy or anything between I just cry. But I didn't cry here. I do think it's because a death was expected. It did make me really sad though.
Yes. Not crying during either The Fault in Our Stars, Bambi, or Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is one of the most well-documented hallmarks of psychopathy.
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I may not be the most qualified person to say this, though. My nickname is (no kidding) "Stone" because I, apparently have a heart of stone when it comes to books. I have cried, on count, twice (not including this book) and my friends appear to think that someone who does not cry at the end of Allegiant is obviously oblivious to emotion. Suuuure. Also, The Book Theif. I choose to see these as happy books. The Fault in Our Stars, though I had my problems with the way the characters grieved, but I don't think the point of the story was to tell you that death was inevitable or whatever. This was a book about life. It made me grateful for the ability to breathe without help, to have both my legs, and two wonderful eyes, and all those other things we take for granted. Life doesn't have to be long. It just has to be worth it.