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John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. In January 2012, his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars, was met with wide critical acclaim, unprecedented in Green's career. The praise included rave reviews in Time Magazine and The New York Times, on NPR, and from award-winning author Markus Zusak. The book also topped the New York Times Children's Paperback Bestseller list for several weeks. Green has also coauthored a book with David Levithan called Will Grayson, Will Grayson, published in 2010. The film rights for all his books, with the exception of Will Grayson Will Grayson, have been optioned to major Hollywood Studios.
In 2007, John and his brother Hank were the hosts of a popular internet blog, "," where they discussed their lives, books and current events every day for a year except for weekends and holidays. They still keep a video blog, now called "The Vlog Brothers," which can be found on the website, or a direct link .
John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. In January 2012, his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars, was met with wide critical acclaim, unprecedented in Green's career. The praise included rave reviews in Time Magazine and The New York Times, on NPR, and from award-winning author Markus Zusak. The book also topped the New York Times Children's Paperback Bestseller list for several weeks. Green has also coauthored a book with David Levithan called Will Grayson, Will Grayson, published in 2010. The film rights for all his books, with the exception of Will Grayson Will Grayson, have been optioned to major Hollywood Studios.
In 2007, John and his brother Hank were the hosts of a popular internet blog, "," where they discussed their lives, books and current events every day for a year except for weekends and holidays. They still keep a video blog, now called "The Vlog Brothers," which can be found on the website, or a direct link .
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December 5, 2013
EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL.
You will cry, because this is VERY sad.
So a discussion occurred in my head after I rated the book.
You will cry, because this is VERY sad.
So a discussion occurred in my head after I rated the book.
November 17, 2019
Update (25/06/2014)-
Since I've been receiving a lot of cyber bullies and hate messages, I鈥檓 going to clarify few things.
-Firstly, this is a negative review of the book and it has got a lot of potential to infuriate the fans. If you think that your opinion is the only opinion that exists on earth and that no one should dislike your favourite book, then I would suggest you to avoid this review.
-Stop harassing me. Why can't you get it through your thick skulls that everyone has different opinions, they鈥檙e going to interpret books differently from you and stop being selfish to think that just because you loved a book that means the whole world should love it. This world is full of people with differing opinions, differing thoughts and differing likes and differing dislikes, learn to respect them even if you don鈥檛 agree with what they have to say about your favourite books. Just because you love a particular book that I hate doesn't make you a good person and me a bad person, It simply shows that people like different things.
Every reader has the freedom to dissect and critically analyse any book and write their thoughts on it in their own review space without the fear of anyone (or fans bossing them into writing what the fandom wants). Critically analysing books and criticising problematic aspects of any reading material prevents people from being passive readers.Shakespeare and J.K Rowling too have their own share of critics then what makes Green鈥檚 book flawless that it鈥檚 not allowed to be criticised?
-Stop cyber bullying and trolling me. Your hate messages and death threats will show much more of your personality than your love for this book. Remember, every time you comment any bullshit here, you鈥檙e giving your own fandom a bad name and my review more popularity. Also, your hate messages aren't going to put me down. I鈥檓 a strong girl and I鈥檓 always going to stand up for what I believe in come hell or high water. I don't fear anyone and no one can ever force me to follow their orders like a puppet especially not a fandom where most of the fans are immature cyber bullies who can鈥檛 respect other鈥檚 opinions. Also, I've caught fans making fake accounts to troll my review, this shows me that they are big cowards who hide their faces and send me spiteful comments.
-Lastly, I鈥檓 NOT shaming anyone for loving this book. You can love whatever you want to and believe in whomever you want to. I have no problem with people who genuinely love this book; I have problems with those who think readers should not have the rights to express their dislike for any book, I have problems with those who approve of and participate in cyber bullying reviewers who write negative reviews on their favourite books, I have problems with those who refuse to acknowledge the fact that their favourite books can have flaws and not everyone鈥檚 going to love them, I have problems with those who come here to shove their opinions down my throat. Do you find anyone who hated this book shoving their opinions in comments of positive reviews? Then what makes you think that you have the rights to troll negative reviews?
Alright, now let's begin with the review.
**WARNING- MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD**
EXPECTATION-
REALITY-
So I happily bought the hardcover of The Fault in our stars back in December 2012 after seeing the high average GR ratings and raving reviews saying how beautiful, life-changing, thought-provoking and blah blah it is. Surprisingly, this book was so special that it became the first book that I slammed on the wall twice after reading it. It didn鈥檛 only disappoint me but also angered me. I'm surprised to find that harsh critics are swallowing up this trash and calling it a masterpiece. Ugh!
I鈥檓 going to make a list of everything I hate about this book that earned it the topmost place on my list of Worst books ever.
The characters- Hazel and Augustus are the flattest cardboard cut-outs I have ever seen in any book. Both of them were like 60-years-old stuck in some teenager's bodies making them very boring and unlikable. Hazel was such an annoying, stupid and pretentious Mary Sue that I wanted to punch her right in the face. One great example of her stupidity-
鈥漌hy are breakfast foods breakfast foods...Like, why don鈥檛 we have curry for breakfast?鈥�
"A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault.
But a hot boy . . . well."
Augustus and Hazel have the same boring, pretentious, know-it-all and indistinguishable personality. Hazel is the female version of Augustus (no, I鈥檓 not going to call him affectionately with Gus) and he is the male version of Hazel. These two characters meld together and have no depth at all. I couldn鈥檛 connect with them, I felt no pain and sympathy for them and they annoyed me so much that I wanted to stab them.
Romance- It fell from the sky. Seriously, I don鈥檛 get what鈥檚 so 鈥渂eautiful鈥� about the relationship between them. They both fall in love within seconds just after laying eyes on each other ~love at first sight~ . The romance is undeveloped and it comes from nowhere. I was baffled when Hazel accepted to go to Augustus's house just minutes after meeting him. WHAT THE HELL? How stupid can you be? You fall for a guy's words whom you met just few minutes ago and agree to go to his house! What if he were a murderer or rapist?
Not to mention that the kissing scene in Anne Frank's house was so effing disgusting. Anne Frank's house is considered to be a place of remembrance, a place where 2 families hid during the dark days of Holocaust. If anyone makes out at such a revered site, they would be kicked out regardless of who or what they are. People present around will be disgusted, they won't stand and watch much less clap for the "lovely" couple.
Writing- Cheesy. Emotionless. Terrible. Want to hear some favourite quotes of mine?
鈥淢y thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.鈥�...Why compare your thoughts to stars and constellations? *sighs*
"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."
"That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt."...Yeah, that鈥檚 the thing about chocolate, it demands to be eaten.
鈥滻'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.鈥�
鈥淭here will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.鈥�
Me-
There were senseless dialogues, brain-cell burning metaphors and words thrown around in the book from the dictionary. I鈥檒l stop here because just thinking about them gives me an awful migraine.
And you know what? Teenagers living in the 21st century DON'T speak like that. No teen can spontaneously come up with long monologues within seconds. Also, genuinely sick teenagers don鈥檛 have the luxury to be so witty and clever every single time. One thing I don't buy is that teens with cancer suddenly become magically wise. They become terrified, confused, depressed and angry. They DON鈥橳 magically gain great insight in life and go around puking long monologues about the meaning of life. This book made me roll my eyes in disgust.
(UPDATE- In response to gazillion questions and arguments I've been getting on the paragraphs above, I have written a detailed explanation below)***
Plot- Predictable. Boring. Uninspiring. Put me to sleep. I had to plough through the whole book. Cancer is hard, it's painful but this book didn鈥檛 show me that. I couldn鈥檛 feel Hazel and Augustus鈥� struggle against it. I couldn鈥檛 feel their pain. TFioS is nothing but a cheesy romance novel.
Me throughout the book-
"He died eight days after his prefuneral"
WHAT THE HELL?? Green tried to make his death sound LIKE HE WENT TO A PARTY LAST WEEK!!!
Ok, so this book made you cry, right? If a book makes you cry it doesn鈥檛 mean that it鈥檚 a masterpiece. I can understand that you must鈥檝e felt sad and sympathetic for the characters and must鈥檝e cried but considering that this novel is sad and it made you cry doesn鈥檛 make it an awesome, life-changing and beautiful story. I cried after reading Allegiant for days but I hated that book with burning passion, it was one of the worst books I ever read.
Before you start calling me a cold-hearted bitch for hating and criticising this book, let me tell you that if you think you have every right to go around fangirling how wonderful this book was then I believe that I have every right to express my hatred for it whether you like it or not.
*** I never mentioned or implied that teenagers are illiterate or can't have a large vocabulary, don't accuse me of something I haven't said. I just find it hard to believe that any teen can come up with nonsensical monologues like the ones below or think it's appropriate to use them in their conversations-
"I鈥檓 awash in the metaphorical resonance of the empty playground in the hospital courtyard鈥�
鈥淭hat kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphysical resonances of human waste production鈥�. (wtf?!)
It's hard to believe that anyone would talk like that in a normal conversation every single time.
I am a teen and I go to high school, I know many other teens of my age who have developed a large vocabulary and have brilliant writing skills. That is simply because they love reading and have developed the habit of learning new words from the dictionary from a very young age. They write amazing poems and honestly, it takes them a lot of time to ponder over and make their metaphors or poems perfect. They obviously cannot open their mouth and spontaneously say
"My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations".
Btw, none of the teenage characters from this book show any interest in reading high literature and poetry (the only book Hazel claims to read is An Imperial Affliction) then what's the reason behind their ability to spew pretentious monologues? They aren't geniuses, they aren't teens who read avidly or analyse high literature and show interest in oratory, existentialist philosophy and poetry. Therefore, it's not plausible for them to speak with profound words. I would believe their monologues had they shown interest in Kant, Sartre, Nietzsche and Heidegger.
Now going over the cigarette metaphor, Augustus buys a pack of cigarettes regularly just so he could put one in his mouth and not light it thus, giving us another stupid dialogue "It's a metaphor. You keep the killing thing between your teeth but don't give it the power to kill you". Funny that he won't kill himself by lighting up the cigarette but will regularly give money to an industry that is the largest cause of cancer thus, promoting the cigarette industry and indirectly killing others. (What a genius!) Not to mention that he mocks Hazel's cancer right on her face and guess her reaction? She's impressed and readily approves of and participants in his metaphor.
There's a lot of difference between being wise and being pretentious and Hazel and Augustus are the latter. I don't buy their dialogues because they are extremely ridiculous and cheesy and no argument by fans and authors can change my opinion because Green makes no effort in making the dialogues IN THE BOOK seem plausible. There's no reason for their large vocabulary and ability to spew long monologues IN THE BOOK. I've read Green's post on Augustus' character being pretentious and imo, he misses the point that his characters are not only pretentious; they are extremely unrealistic as well. Augustus' pretension is not "an intentional flaw", it's simply poor characterisation.
I'm not saying that kids with cancer cannot be intelligent. A lot of fans say that the characters in the book are special and wise because they have cancer and this book tries hard to show that too. I merely said that having cancer does not mean that you can automatically become wise and gain a lot of knowledge.
I couldn't sympathise with the characters and feel their pain. That doesn't mean that I'm cold hearted. It's not my fault that I couldn't get emotionally connected to the characters, it's the authors fault for not writing characters I could sympathise with. It's the author's fault for making shallow, judgemental and annoying characters. It's the his fault for making characters with personality that mocks cancer patients and who show disrespect to millions of people who died in the Holocaust. It's the author's fault for romanticising cancer and using it as a ploy to sell his book. I'm NOT hating people who have cancer, I'm NOT hating the characters because they have cancer. I'm hating them for who they are. I'm hating the book because it's poorly written.
I don't need to have cancer to analyse this book. Having cancer does not mean that you get the rights to say whatever you want to about this book. Every reader whether sick or not has equal rights to analyse and voice their opinions freely on any book.
/end rant
Since I've been receiving a lot of cyber bullies and hate messages, I鈥檓 going to clarify few things.
-Firstly, this is a negative review of the book and it has got a lot of potential to infuriate the fans. If you think that your opinion is the only opinion that exists on earth and that no one should dislike your favourite book, then I would suggest you to avoid this review.
-Stop harassing me. Why can't you get it through your thick skulls that everyone has different opinions, they鈥檙e going to interpret books differently from you and stop being selfish to think that just because you loved a book that means the whole world should love it. This world is full of people with differing opinions, differing thoughts and differing likes and differing dislikes, learn to respect them even if you don鈥檛 agree with what they have to say about your favourite books. Just because you love a particular book that I hate doesn't make you a good person and me a bad person, It simply shows that people like different things.
Every reader has the freedom to dissect and critically analyse any book and write their thoughts on it in their own review space without the fear of anyone (or fans bossing them into writing what the fandom wants). Critically analysing books and criticising problematic aspects of any reading material prevents people from being passive readers.Shakespeare and J.K Rowling too have their own share of critics then what makes Green鈥檚 book flawless that it鈥檚 not allowed to be criticised?
-Stop cyber bullying and trolling me. Your hate messages and death threats will show much more of your personality than your love for this book. Remember, every time you comment any bullshit here, you鈥檙e giving your own fandom a bad name and my review more popularity. Also, your hate messages aren't going to put me down. I鈥檓 a strong girl and I鈥檓 always going to stand up for what I believe in come hell or high water. I don't fear anyone and no one can ever force me to follow their orders like a puppet especially not a fandom where most of the fans are immature cyber bullies who can鈥檛 respect other鈥檚 opinions. Also, I've caught fans making fake accounts to troll my review, this shows me that they are big cowards who hide their faces and send me spiteful comments.
-Lastly, I鈥檓 NOT shaming anyone for loving this book. You can love whatever you want to and believe in whomever you want to. I have no problem with people who genuinely love this book; I have problems with those who think readers should not have the rights to express their dislike for any book, I have problems with those who approve of and participate in cyber bullying reviewers who write negative reviews on their favourite books, I have problems with those who refuse to acknowledge the fact that their favourite books can have flaws and not everyone鈥檚 going to love them, I have problems with those who come here to shove their opinions down my throat. Do you find anyone who hated this book shoving their opinions in comments of positive reviews? Then what makes you think that you have the rights to troll negative reviews?
Alright, now let's begin with the review.
**WARNING- MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD**
EXPECTATION-
REALITY-
So I happily bought the hardcover of The Fault in our stars back in December 2012 after seeing the high average GR ratings and raving reviews saying how beautiful, life-changing, thought-provoking and blah blah it is. Surprisingly, this book was so special that it became the first book that I slammed on the wall twice after reading it. It didn鈥檛 only disappoint me but also angered me. I'm surprised to find that harsh critics are swallowing up this trash and calling it a masterpiece. Ugh!
I鈥檓 going to make a list of everything I hate about this book that earned it the topmost place on my list of Worst books ever.
The characters- Hazel and Augustus are the flattest cardboard cut-outs I have ever seen in any book. Both of them were like 60-years-old stuck in some teenager's bodies making them very boring and unlikable. Hazel was such an annoying, stupid and pretentious Mary Sue that I wanted to punch her right in the face. One great example of her stupidity-
鈥漌hy are breakfast foods breakfast foods...Like, why don鈥檛 we have curry for breakfast?鈥�
"A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault.
But a hot boy . . . well."
Augustus and Hazel have the same boring, pretentious, know-it-all and indistinguishable personality. Hazel is the female version of Augustus (no, I鈥檓 not going to call him affectionately with Gus) and he is the male version of Hazel. These two characters meld together and have no depth at all. I couldn鈥檛 connect with them, I felt no pain and sympathy for them and they annoyed me so much that I wanted to stab them.
Romance- It fell from the sky. Seriously, I don鈥檛 get what鈥檚 so 鈥渂eautiful鈥� about the relationship between them. They both fall in love within seconds just after laying eyes on each other ~love at first sight~ . The romance is undeveloped and it comes from nowhere. I was baffled when Hazel accepted to go to Augustus's house just minutes after meeting him. WHAT THE HELL? How stupid can you be? You fall for a guy's words whom you met just few minutes ago and agree to go to his house! What if he were a murderer or rapist?
Not to mention that the kissing scene in Anne Frank's house was so effing disgusting. Anne Frank's house is considered to be a place of remembrance, a place where 2 families hid during the dark days of Holocaust. If anyone makes out at such a revered site, they would be kicked out regardless of who or what they are. People present around will be disgusted, they won't stand and watch much less clap for the "lovely" couple.
Writing- Cheesy. Emotionless. Terrible. Want to hear some favourite quotes of mine?
鈥淢y thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.鈥�...Why compare your thoughts to stars and constellations? *sighs*
"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."
"That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt."...Yeah, that鈥檚 the thing about chocolate, it demands to be eaten.
鈥滻'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.鈥�
鈥淭here will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.鈥�
Me-
There were senseless dialogues, brain-cell burning metaphors and words thrown around in the book from the dictionary. I鈥檒l stop here because just thinking about them gives me an awful migraine.
And you know what? Teenagers living in the 21st century DON'T speak like that. No teen can spontaneously come up with long monologues within seconds. Also, genuinely sick teenagers don鈥檛 have the luxury to be so witty and clever every single time. One thing I don't buy is that teens with cancer suddenly become magically wise. They become terrified, confused, depressed and angry. They DON鈥橳 magically gain great insight in life and go around puking long monologues about the meaning of life. This book made me roll my eyes in disgust.
(UPDATE- In response to gazillion questions and arguments I've been getting on the paragraphs above, I have written a detailed explanation below)***
Plot- Predictable. Boring. Uninspiring. Put me to sleep. I had to plough through the whole book. Cancer is hard, it's painful but this book didn鈥檛 show me that. I couldn鈥檛 feel Hazel and Augustus鈥� struggle against it. I couldn鈥檛 feel their pain. TFioS is nothing but a cheesy romance novel.
Me throughout the book-
"He died eight days after his prefuneral"
WHAT THE HELL?? Green tried to make his death sound LIKE HE WENT TO A PARTY LAST WEEK!!!
Ok, so this book made you cry, right? If a book makes you cry it doesn鈥檛 mean that it鈥檚 a masterpiece. I can understand that you must鈥檝e felt sad and sympathetic for the characters and must鈥檝e cried but considering that this novel is sad and it made you cry doesn鈥檛 make it an awesome, life-changing and beautiful story. I cried after reading Allegiant for days but I hated that book with burning passion, it was one of the worst books I ever read.
Before you start calling me a cold-hearted bitch for hating and criticising this book, let me tell you that if you think you have every right to go around fangirling how wonderful this book was then I believe that I have every right to express my hatred for it whether you like it or not.
*** I never mentioned or implied that teenagers are illiterate or can't have a large vocabulary, don't accuse me of something I haven't said. I just find it hard to believe that any teen can come up with nonsensical monologues like the ones below or think it's appropriate to use them in their conversations-
"I鈥檓 awash in the metaphorical resonance of the empty playground in the hospital courtyard鈥�
鈥淭hat kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphysical resonances of human waste production鈥�. (wtf?!)
It's hard to believe that anyone would talk like that in a normal conversation every single time.
I am a teen and I go to high school, I know many other teens of my age who have developed a large vocabulary and have brilliant writing skills. That is simply because they love reading and have developed the habit of learning new words from the dictionary from a very young age. They write amazing poems and honestly, it takes them a lot of time to ponder over and make their metaphors or poems perfect. They obviously cannot open their mouth and spontaneously say
"My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations".
Btw, none of the teenage characters from this book show any interest in reading high literature and poetry (the only book Hazel claims to read is An Imperial Affliction) then what's the reason behind their ability to spew pretentious monologues? They aren't geniuses, they aren't teens who read avidly or analyse high literature and show interest in oratory, existentialist philosophy and poetry. Therefore, it's not plausible for them to speak with profound words. I would believe their monologues had they shown interest in Kant, Sartre, Nietzsche and Heidegger.
Now going over the cigarette metaphor, Augustus buys a pack of cigarettes regularly just so he could put one in his mouth and not light it thus, giving us another stupid dialogue "It's a metaphor. You keep the killing thing between your teeth but don't give it the power to kill you". Funny that he won't kill himself by lighting up the cigarette but will regularly give money to an industry that is the largest cause of cancer thus, promoting the cigarette industry and indirectly killing others. (What a genius!) Not to mention that he mocks Hazel's cancer right on her face and guess her reaction? She's impressed and readily approves of and participants in his metaphor.
There's a lot of difference between being wise and being pretentious and Hazel and Augustus are the latter. I don't buy their dialogues because they are extremely ridiculous and cheesy and no argument by fans and authors can change my opinion because Green makes no effort in making the dialogues IN THE BOOK seem plausible. There's no reason for their large vocabulary and ability to spew long monologues IN THE BOOK. I've read Green's post on Augustus' character being pretentious and imo, he misses the point that his characters are not only pretentious; they are extremely unrealistic as well. Augustus' pretension is not "an intentional flaw", it's simply poor characterisation.
I'm not saying that kids with cancer cannot be intelligent. A lot of fans say that the characters in the book are special and wise because they have cancer and this book tries hard to show that too. I merely said that having cancer does not mean that you can automatically become wise and gain a lot of knowledge.
I couldn't sympathise with the characters and feel their pain. That doesn't mean that I'm cold hearted. It's not my fault that I couldn't get emotionally connected to the characters, it's the authors fault for not writing characters I could sympathise with. It's the author's fault for making shallow, judgemental and annoying characters. It's the his fault for making characters with personality that mocks cancer patients and who show disrespect to millions of people who died in the Holocaust. It's the author's fault for romanticising cancer and using it as a ploy to sell his book. I'm NOT hating people who have cancer, I'm NOT hating the characters because they have cancer. I'm hating them for who they are. I'm hating the book because it's poorly written.
I don't need to have cancer to analyse this book. Having cancer does not mean that you get the rights to say whatever you want to about this book. Every reader whether sick or not has equal rights to analyse and voice their opinions freely on any book.
/end rant
March 16, 2013
I HATE this book. Absolutely hate it. Not just from the bottom of my heart (which would literally mean my ventricles, and so, no) but with my whole heart. I hate it, hate it, hate it.
I hate the fact that it made me laugh, so hard!
I hate the fact that it made me smile, so much!
I hate the fact that it made me chuckle, so profusely!
I hate the fact that it gifted me with so much Laughter, Smiles and Chuckles when I was expecting to come face to face with tragedy at any moment....it changed my expectations, made me believe in Something which did not happen...or maybe did happen.
I hate the fact that while Hazel Grace fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once , I just fell ...no warning, no time to process the myriad emotions coursing through me, nope, nothing, just a huge endless void-filled fall and then a sudden crash that took my breath away, like literally...
I hate the fact that I fell in love with this bound-to-end-in-oblivion, bound-to-end-in-disaster boy who stared with blue blue eyes and put the killing thing right between his teeth, but never gave it the power to do its killing. (Putting a cigarette right between your teeth and never lighting it, yes, that's Augustus Waters for you, people, a guy huge on metaphors and symbolism...that hopeless boy).
I hate the fact that when I least expected it, the story, the words just grabbed me and pulled me in so deep that even the thought of ever resurfacing never entered my mind.
I hate that the fact that right in the middle of my dance in the rain of laughter, dry wit, and humour without any warning, without any lightning as it's precedent, this thunder would stun me, startle me, wipe the smile right off my face, and sober me up, wake me up from the intoxication of the very real yet false jocularity spun by them, a humour which was nothing but human tragedy waiting-to-happen-and-had-already-happened in disguise and then push me back into that rain to dance again.
I hate the fact that I'm not making my much sense right now....that right now my thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations...
And yes, all the hate above is a metaphor, a symbolic word for love... weird, right? But right now I can't bring myself to say that I love this book....I don't, I don't, I don't (yes, I do, I do, I do...)
So, *deep breath*, it's a story of a girl named Hazel Grace Lancaster, a girl diagnosed with thyroid cancer at the age of 13 who's still alive at 16 thanks to a miracle drug which didn't work it's miracle in about 70% of the people but it did work in her.
So, even though her lungs suck at being lungs, she's still alive and well not kicking, but breathing, with difficulty (because remember her lungs suck at being lungs), but breathing nonetheless.
She's been nothing but a terminal case ever since her diagnosis. The doctors are simply finding ways of keeping her alive rather than removing the cancer ridden lungs and replacing it with a new one, because let's face it, her chances of surviving such an operation are like next to nothing and why waste a good pair of lungs on a given, bound-to-fail body?
So, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis.
Enter Augustus Waters. He's 17, gorgeous, in remission, and very frankly and much to her surprise interested in her.
It's a match made in Cancer Kid Support Group, in the Literal Heart of Jesus (you'll know what that means when you read the book...you'll laugh, trust me, you will).
He is a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.
He's the unexpected, hot, gorgeous twist in her story...a story which is about to be completely rewritten...
Their story begins with a staring contest...he stares at her...
So she stares back...because let's face it...
(Spoiler Alert: She wins.)
And it progresses into something brilliant, something as bright as the stars, into Something with a capital S....
I hate this book. (This needs indefinite repetitions, I hate it).
I hate the fact that I fell in love with their always. "Okay"
I hate the fact that Hazel Grace took the words right out of my mouth when she said what she said about being a vegetarian...
"I want to minimise the number of deaths I am responsible for,"
and about not knowing what's cool...
"I take a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool."
I hate the fact that I fell in love with this blue-eyed boy who drove horrifically and his cheesy and yet very endearing attempts to be Prince Charming....(but more so with him...the surprised, excited and innocent side of him..)
I hate the fact that Hazel Grace felt like a grenade and all she wanted to do was minimise the casualities when (not if but when) she blew up...
I hate the fact that I felt sorry for a lonely swing set...a Desperately Lonely Swing Set Which Needed a Loving Home...or maybe it was simply a Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Which Sought the Butts of Children...and the fact that I absolutely love this sentence....
The Lonely Swing Set...
or maybe Just Vaguely Pedophilic...
And even though I fell in love the way you fall from a cliff or a building, (don't really know how that feels..since I've never done that)..I hate the way she fell in love...
I hate this kiss....because for who so firm that cannot be seduced?
I hate the love letter she wrote him...(Spoiler Alert: It's a Venn diagram love letter.)
I hate the fact that she did not agree with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (in which Abraham Maslow, an American psychologist, claimed that certain needs must be met before you can even have other kinds of needs.) Something like this...
Unless and until your needs of the previous level have been fulfilled, you don't even think about the needs of the next level. Of course, like all psychological theories this one too cannot be generalized or accepted universally. Because if there is one law in psychology then it is that there is no law in psychology, there is no given universal laws for human behaviour or thoughts or anything. Every theory has it's use and flaws, applicable to some while not applicable to others. And this one is not applicable in this situation. Nope, not at all.
I hate the words, the word play in this book... a quantum entanglement of tubes and bodies....triumphantly digitized contemporaneity....
I hate the fact that it made me laugh so much, smile a lot, fall in love so hard only to exact revenge later on for giving in to the false security of humour and love by making me cry....oh god, cry so much....so much...
Because that's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.
I get it...totally get it...
I hate the fact that I ever read this sentence...
"I lit up like a Christmas tree, Hazel Grace..." .
I hate it, I really hate it (forget metaphorical resonances, forget symbolism, I actually hate it).
I hate the fact that it made me cry so much that the lovers of-god-knows-which-century entwined on my pillowcase were drenched in the torrent of my tears and were probably ruing the fact that there was no umbrella during their time.
I hate the fact that I stayed up whole night reading this book, half of the night crying, and even after finishing it I couldn't go to sleep, so the rest of the dawn just pacing in my room with all these haphazard, desultory stars jumping around in my mind finding absolutely no avenue to become constellations.....and my eyes puffy (Note to self: Do not stay up all night or add crying to it if you do to avoid puffy eyes.)
Why do I do this to myself??
And I absolutely hate this...
I hate that this story is stunningly overwhelming, insightful, irreverent, raw and devastating...and to quote Markus Zusak, it's the kind of story reading which "You laugh, you cry and then you come back for more."
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities... ...I'm grateful for having known this little infinity...grateful for this epic love story of two star crossed lovers....
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I like my choices. I hope you like yours.
And by hate you know I meant love, right?
I love this book.
Right now, my thoughts are too jumbled up...
I hate the fact that it made me laugh, so hard!
I hate the fact that it made me smile, so much!
I hate the fact that it made me chuckle, so profusely!
I hate the fact that it gifted me with so much Laughter, Smiles and Chuckles when I was expecting to come face to face with tragedy at any moment....it changed my expectations, made me believe in Something which did not happen...or maybe did happen.
I hate the fact that while Hazel Grace fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once , I just fell ...no warning, no time to process the myriad emotions coursing through me, nope, nothing, just a huge endless void-filled fall and then a sudden crash that took my breath away, like literally...
I hate the fact that I fell in love with this bound-to-end-in-oblivion, bound-to-end-in-disaster boy who stared with blue blue eyes and put the killing thing right between his teeth, but never gave it the power to do its killing. (Putting a cigarette right between your teeth and never lighting it, yes, that's Augustus Waters for you, people, a guy huge on metaphors and symbolism...that hopeless boy).
I hate the fact that when I least expected it, the story, the words just grabbed me and pulled me in so deep that even the thought of ever resurfacing never entered my mind.
I hate that the fact that right in the middle of my dance in the rain of laughter, dry wit, and humour without any warning, without any lightning as it's precedent, this thunder would stun me, startle me, wipe the smile right off my face, and sober me up, wake me up from the intoxication of the very real yet false jocularity spun by them, a humour which was nothing but human tragedy waiting-to-happen-and-had-already-happened in disguise and then push me back into that rain to dance again.
I hate the fact that I'm not making my much sense right now....that right now my thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations...
And yes, all the hate above is a metaphor, a symbolic word for love... weird, right? But right now I can't bring myself to say that I love this book....I don't, I don't, I don't (yes, I do, I do, I do...)
So, *deep breath*, it's a story of a girl named Hazel Grace Lancaster, a girl diagnosed with thyroid cancer at the age of 13 who's still alive at 16 thanks to a miracle drug which didn't work it's miracle in about 70% of the people but it did work in her.
So, even though her lungs suck at being lungs, she's still alive and well not kicking, but breathing, with difficulty (because remember her lungs suck at being lungs), but breathing nonetheless.
She's been nothing but a terminal case ever since her diagnosis. The doctors are simply finding ways of keeping her alive rather than removing the cancer ridden lungs and replacing it with a new one, because let's face it, her chances of surviving such an operation are like next to nothing and why waste a good pair of lungs on a given, bound-to-fail body?
So, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis.
Enter Augustus Waters. He's 17, gorgeous, in remission, and very frankly and much to her surprise interested in her.
It's a match made in Cancer Kid Support Group, in the Literal Heart of Jesus (you'll know what that means when you read the book...you'll laugh, trust me, you will).
He is a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.
He's the unexpected, hot, gorgeous twist in her story...a story which is about to be completely rewritten...
Their story begins with a staring contest...he stares at her...
So she stares back...because let's face it...
(Spoiler Alert: She wins.)
And it progresses into something brilliant, something as bright as the stars, into Something with a capital S....
I hate this book. (This needs indefinite repetitions, I hate it).
I hate the fact that I fell in love with their always. "Okay"
I hate the fact that Hazel Grace took the words right out of my mouth when she said what she said about being a vegetarian...
"I want to minimise the number of deaths I am responsible for,"
and about not knowing what's cool...
"I take a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool."
I hate the fact that I fell in love with this blue-eyed boy who drove horrifically and his cheesy and yet very endearing attempts to be Prince Charming....(but more so with him...the surprised, excited and innocent side of him..)
"May I see you again?" he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice.
I smiled. "Sure."
"Tomorrow?" he asked.
"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager."
"Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow."
I hate the fact that Hazel Grace felt like a grenade and all she wanted to do was minimise the casualities when (not if but when) she blew up...
I hate the fact that I felt sorry for a lonely swing set...a Desperately Lonely Swing Set Which Needed a Loving Home...or maybe it was simply a Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Which Sought the Butts of Children...and the fact that I absolutely love this sentence....
The Lonely Swing Set...
or maybe Just Vaguely Pedophilic...
And even though I fell in love the way you fall from a cliff or a building, (don't really know how that feels..since I've never done that)..I hate the way she fell in love...
I hate this kiss....because for who so firm that cannot be seduced?
And then we were kissing. My hand let go of the oxygen cart and I reached up for his neck, and he pulled me up by my waist onto my tiptoes. As his parted lips met mine, I started to feel breathless in a new and fascinating way. The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I really liked my body; this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle, worth the chest tubes and the PICC lines and the ceaseless bodily betrayal of the tumors.
I hate the love letter she wrote him...(Spoiler Alert: It's a Venn diagram love letter.)
I hate the fact that she did not agree with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (in which Abraham Maslow, an American psychologist, claimed that certain needs must be met before you can even have other kinds of needs.) Something like this...
Unless and until your needs of the previous level have been fulfilled, you don't even think about the needs of the next level. Of course, like all psychological theories this one too cannot be generalized or accepted universally. Because if there is one law in psychology then it is that there is no law in psychology, there is no given universal laws for human behaviour or thoughts or anything. Every theory has it's use and flaws, applicable to some while not applicable to others. And this one is not applicable in this situation. Nope, not at all.
I hate the words, the word play in this book... a quantum entanglement of tubes and bodies....triumphantly digitized contemporaneity....
I hate the fact that it made me laugh so much, smile a lot, fall in love so hard only to exact revenge later on for giving in to the false security of humour and love by making me cry....oh god, cry so much....so much...
Because that's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.
I get it...totally get it...
I hate the fact that I ever read this sentence...
"I lit up like a Christmas tree, Hazel Grace..." .
I hate it, I really hate it (forget metaphorical resonances, forget symbolism, I actually hate it).
I hate the fact that it made me cry so much that the lovers of-god-knows-which-century entwined on my pillowcase were drenched in the torrent of my tears and were probably ruing the fact that there was no umbrella during their time.
I hate the fact that I stayed up whole night reading this book, half of the night crying, and even after finishing it I couldn't go to sleep, so the rest of the dawn just pacing in my room with all these haphazard, desultory stars jumping around in my mind finding absolutely no avenue to become constellations.....and my eyes puffy (Note to self: Do not stay up all night or add crying to it if you do to avoid puffy eyes.)
Why do I do this to myself??
And I absolutely hate this...
I hate that this story is stunningly overwhelming, insightful, irreverent, raw and devastating...and to quote Markus Zusak, it's the kind of story reading which "You laugh, you cry and then you come back for more."
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities... ...I'm grateful for having known this little infinity...grateful for this epic love story of two star crossed lovers....
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I like my choices. I hope you like yours.
And by hate you know I meant love, right?
I love this book.
Right now, my thoughts are too jumbled up...
August 11, 2016
At age twenty-two, John Green worked as a student chaplain in a children's hospital.
Let's take a moment and consider all the implications of that, and why he is making a colossal understatement when he described the experience as "devastating." That was about twelve years ago, and Green has said in interviews that because of this experience, he's spent twelve years trying to write a book about kids with cancer - not poster children of strength and courage and illness-granted wisdom, but real kids and their families and friends who have to cope with the fact that they will die young.
All novels are personal, but Green's novels seem, to me, to be especially so. But this one is personal in a different way. With this novel, Green isn't trying to exorcize the memory of who in . This goes deeper than high school romance and Manic Pixie Dream Girl angst. This is about life, death, illness, love, heroism, and how a sixteen-year-old is supposed to deal with the fact that she will die and leave everyone she loves behind. Maybe it's just because I've been watching vlogbrothers videos for four years and feel like I'm actually acquainted with John Green, but this is the most deeply personal novel I've ever read.
This is not, as Hazel Lancaster might say, a Cancer Book. None of the cancer patients in this story have a wisdom beyond their years, and they do not stoically accept the fact that they will die or fight heroically. Hazel Lancaster, a terminal sixteen-year-old who has to carry an oxygen tank everywhere because "my lungs suck at being lungs" is refreshingly real - not manic, not a pixie, not a dream girl. She reads Great Books and watches America's Next Top Model marathons. Augustus Waters, her amputee friend, wants desperately to leave a lasting impression on the world and philosophizes about heroism, and his favorite book is a novelization of a video game. (can I say how much I love that an author can establish a character's intelligence without telling us that they love reading Austen yes Stephenie Meyer I'm looking at you) Everything here is real, especially the diseases. There isn't any bullshit about dying gracefully here, because cancer is ugly and unpleasant, and Green makes you feel Hazel's lungs struggling to breathe and the pain, and see the vomit and urine. (Remember how in A Walk to Remember, Mandy Moore has been secretly dying of leukemia the whole time but looks great even on her deathbed? Nicholas Sparks can fuck right off for that insult to real cancer patients) Most importantly, Hazel and Augustus are not defined by their cancer. It consumes their lives, but it doesn't define them. On every page, it's clear: this is a story told by someone who hasn't known just one person with cancer, but has seen a multitude of children with terminal diseases, and has tried to find some way to comfort them and their families.
It's for that reason that I don't feel like I can review this like a normal book. John Green didn't write this story for me, and so I don't feel like I have any place saying that it's amazing and beautiful and heartbreaking. And I certainly can't criticize any of its minor faults. All I can say, really, is that you have to read this for yourself, and go from there.
...
Okay, you guys know me better than that. I have one big complaint, which I will describe here, and all I ask is that you remember that I still gave this five stars.
Augustus Waters, in the first few chapters, comes off as a pretentious douche. When Hazel first meets him at a cancer support group, they're talking afterwards and Augustus takes out a cigarette and puts it in his mouth. Hazel, who you'll recall is dying because her lungs cannot function, freaks out: "...even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER." Augustus explains that he doesn't smoke the cigarettes, he just puts them in his mouth (no, really) because "They don't kill you unless you light them...And I've never lit one. It's a metaphor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing."
Augustus, I love you, but you're full of shit right there. Notice how he didn't address Hazel's perfectly valid point that, by buying cigarettes, Augustus is giving money to the people who cause cancer? Because here's the thing: you can say to a cigarette company, "I'm buying your cigarettes as a metaphor, but I won't light them so I'm taking away their power" and they'll stop listening at "I'm buying your cigarettes" because that's all they care about. And it's a shit metaphor in any case: you can walk around a mall with a shotgun and explain to people that because it's unloaded you've taken away its power, but you're still going to get arrested.
So that was annoying, as was Augustus's general air of overly-charming pretentious skeeziness in the beginning. But I forgive him for it, because lest we forget, he is seventeen. If his character was twenty-two he'd be the most obnoxious jackass on the planet, but because he's just a kid, I was willing to forgive him. Still hate the cigarette thing, though.
Let's take a moment and consider all the implications of that, and why he is making a colossal understatement when he described the experience as "devastating." That was about twelve years ago, and Green has said in interviews that because of this experience, he's spent twelve years trying to write a book about kids with cancer - not poster children of strength and courage and illness-granted wisdom, but real kids and their families and friends who have to cope with the fact that they will die young.
All novels are personal, but Green's novels seem, to me, to be especially so. But this one is personal in a different way. With this novel, Green isn't trying to exorcize the memory of who in . This goes deeper than high school romance and Manic Pixie Dream Girl angst. This is about life, death, illness, love, heroism, and how a sixteen-year-old is supposed to deal with the fact that she will die and leave everyone she loves behind. Maybe it's just because I've been watching vlogbrothers videos for four years and feel like I'm actually acquainted with John Green, but this is the most deeply personal novel I've ever read.
This is not, as Hazel Lancaster might say, a Cancer Book. None of the cancer patients in this story have a wisdom beyond their years, and they do not stoically accept the fact that they will die or fight heroically. Hazel Lancaster, a terminal sixteen-year-old who has to carry an oxygen tank everywhere because "my lungs suck at being lungs" is refreshingly real - not manic, not a pixie, not a dream girl. She reads Great Books and watches America's Next Top Model marathons. Augustus Waters, her amputee friend, wants desperately to leave a lasting impression on the world and philosophizes about heroism, and his favorite book is a novelization of a video game. (can I say how much I love that an author can establish a character's intelligence without telling us that they love reading Austen yes Stephenie Meyer I'm looking at you) Everything here is real, especially the diseases. There isn't any bullshit about dying gracefully here, because cancer is ugly and unpleasant, and Green makes you feel Hazel's lungs struggling to breathe and the pain, and see the vomit and urine. (Remember how in A Walk to Remember, Mandy Moore has been secretly dying of leukemia the whole time but looks great even on her deathbed? Nicholas Sparks can fuck right off for that insult to real cancer patients) Most importantly, Hazel and Augustus are not defined by their cancer. It consumes their lives, but it doesn't define them. On every page, it's clear: this is a story told by someone who hasn't known just one person with cancer, but has seen a multitude of children with terminal diseases, and has tried to find some way to comfort them and their families.
It's for that reason that I don't feel like I can review this like a normal book. John Green didn't write this story for me, and so I don't feel like I have any place saying that it's amazing and beautiful and heartbreaking. And I certainly can't criticize any of its minor faults. All I can say, really, is that you have to read this for yourself, and go from there.
...
Okay, you guys know me better than that. I have one big complaint, which I will describe here, and all I ask is that you remember that I still gave this five stars.
Augustus Waters, in the first few chapters, comes off as a pretentious douche. When Hazel first meets him at a cancer support group, they're talking afterwards and Augustus takes out a cigarette and puts it in his mouth. Hazel, who you'll recall is dying because her lungs cannot function, freaks out: "...even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER." Augustus explains that he doesn't smoke the cigarettes, he just puts them in his mouth (no, really) because "They don't kill you unless you light them...And I've never lit one. It's a metaphor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing."
Augustus, I love you, but you're full of shit right there. Notice how he didn't address Hazel's perfectly valid point that, by buying cigarettes, Augustus is giving money to the people who cause cancer? Because here's the thing: you can say to a cigarette company, "I'm buying your cigarettes as a metaphor, but I won't light them so I'm taking away their power" and they'll stop listening at "I'm buying your cigarettes" because that's all they care about. And it's a shit metaphor in any case: you can walk around a mall with a shotgun and explain to people that because it's unloaded you've taken away its power, but you're still going to get arrested.
So that was annoying, as was Augustus's general air of overly-charming pretentious skeeziness in the beginning. But I forgive him for it, because lest we forget, he is seventeen. If his character was twenty-two he'd be the most obnoxious jackass on the planet, but because he's just a kid, I was willing to forgive him. Still hate the cigarette thing, though.
November 22, 2014
It seems silly that I have to say this, but I've seen many a negative review of this book met with backlash from John's nerdfighter fans, so I want to make one thing clear: I like John Green. You'll find plenty who worship him as a god amongst men and many who are highly critical of him, I fall into neither of these categories but I do like him and I enjoy watching his videos. I find him funny and I agree with a lot of what he stands for; I also appreciate the amount of charity work he does and the way he helps the "nerds" feel better about themselves and make it out of high school a little less scarred than they might have been. I like John Green.
But I do not particularly like this book.
There are plenty of people raving about this book on goodreads, on Kirkus, in various magazines and newspapers... so I realise I am in a tiny minority. I will also admit that I might not have felt the same if I hadn't already subjected myself to numerous "cancer books" but, as it is, I do not feel anything that unique or interesting has been brought to the table here. For the first half (approx), despite my lack of enthusiasm, I expected to give it three stars because I didn't consider it to be a bad book and it was well-written enough; however, as the book wore on, I began to realise that I was growing more and more bored and found myself struggling to read on. This was something I hadn't anticipated. I'd prepared myself for many different possibilities: heartbreak, a changed perspective on life and death, disdain, annoyance... but not bored indifference. Hence the lower rating.
One of the first problems I encountered was that the kids were wise beyond their years. And I don't mean intelligent, I mean wise. They came out with things that really only suit people who've been alive a few centuries - like Dumbledore or Gandalf - or at the very least people who are sat comfortably in middle age. I like that Green doesn't patronise his readers by oversimplifying things or dumbing down characters in a condescending effort to appeal to teenagers, but these characters behave in a way that is unnatural to the point where sometimes it is verging on ridiculous. It's not completely unbelievable that some kids exist who are actually like this, but they definitely don't all speak and behave in this way.
The characters are all, in one way or another, John Green. They all have his quirkiness, his sense of humour; I was picturing several John Greens sat around having a conversation while I was reading . In fact, reading this book was a little bit like watching one of Green's vlogs, which might have worked well if JG hadn't dampened the humour with philosophical musings. As it was, I had a book that was trying so very hard to be both funny and sad at the same time and ended up failing to deliver either one as successfully as I would have liked. The dialogue felt false and scripted because of the teens' tendency to showcase their depth and intelligence. Natural conversation between anyone of any age doesn't work like this and I couldn't shake the feeling that there should be a laughter track playing in the background.
, in my opinion, would have been far better if Green had stuck to humour like Andrews did in . I believe that the exaggerated characters and their unrealistic conversations would have been fine in a straight-up humour book because that's not supposed to portray something real and deep and moving. But Green loses it by trying to be philosophical and, in the end, I think he has produced a book that is as melodramatic and message-driven as any other on this issue. And his attempt to balance humour and sadness left me somewhat devoid of emotion throughout and provided fewer laughs than I'd hoped.
Ultimately, I feel that JG sacrificed humour in order to be deep and philosophical - perhaps this book tried to be too many things, perhaps JG tried to be too clever. But was a much better book, in my opinion, because it did the whole serious illness + humour thing but didn't over-complicate things by being philosophical. Like I said near the beginning, perhaps I am just tired of these books and needs to be appreciated by someone who has not already exhausted themselves on similar efforts.
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But I do not particularly like this book.
There are plenty of people raving about this book on goodreads, on Kirkus, in various magazines and newspapers... so I realise I am in a tiny minority. I will also admit that I might not have felt the same if I hadn't already subjected myself to numerous "cancer books" but, as it is, I do not feel anything that unique or interesting has been brought to the table here. For the first half (approx), despite my lack of enthusiasm, I expected to give it three stars because I didn't consider it to be a bad book and it was well-written enough; however, as the book wore on, I began to realise that I was growing more and more bored and found myself struggling to read on. This was something I hadn't anticipated. I'd prepared myself for many different possibilities: heartbreak, a changed perspective on life and death, disdain, annoyance... but not bored indifference. Hence the lower rating.
One of the first problems I encountered was that the kids were wise beyond their years. And I don't mean intelligent, I mean wise. They came out with things that really only suit people who've been alive a few centuries - like Dumbledore or Gandalf - or at the very least people who are sat comfortably in middle age. I like that Green doesn't patronise his readers by oversimplifying things or dumbing down characters in a condescending effort to appeal to teenagers, but these characters behave in a way that is unnatural to the point where sometimes it is verging on ridiculous. It's not completely unbelievable that some kids exist who are actually like this, but they definitely don't all speak and behave in this way.
The characters are all, in one way or another, John Green. They all have his quirkiness, his sense of humour; I was picturing several John Greens sat around having a conversation while I was reading . In fact, reading this book was a little bit like watching one of Green's vlogs, which might have worked well if JG hadn't dampened the humour with philosophical musings. As it was, I had a book that was trying so very hard to be both funny and sad at the same time and ended up failing to deliver either one as successfully as I would have liked. The dialogue felt false and scripted because of the teens' tendency to showcase their depth and intelligence. Natural conversation between anyone of any age doesn't work like this and I couldn't shake the feeling that there should be a laughter track playing in the background.
, in my opinion, would have been far better if Green had stuck to humour like Andrews did in . I believe that the exaggerated characters and their unrealistic conversations would have been fine in a straight-up humour book because that's not supposed to portray something real and deep and moving. But Green loses it by trying to be philosophical and, in the end, I think he has produced a book that is as melodramatic and message-driven as any other on this issue. And his attempt to balance humour and sadness left me somewhat devoid of emotion throughout and provided fewer laughs than I'd hoped.
Ultimately, I feel that JG sacrificed humour in order to be deep and philosophical - perhaps this book tried to be too many things, perhaps JG tried to be too clever. But was a much better book, in my opinion, because it did the whole serious illness + humour thing but didn't over-complicate things by being philosophical. Like I said near the beginning, perhaps I am just tired of these books and needs to be appreciated by someone who has not already exhausted themselves on similar efforts.
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October 9, 2012
I must be clear from the beginning. This is perhaps the most personal review I have written. My choice of stars was difficult for this. I am a self confessed John Green fan, I believe he is amongst the best of, not only YA, but fiction writers out there in general.
This is a beautifully written book. There is very little to complain about in terms of style, plot, character, etc. However I couldn't, in all good conscience, give this any higher because it sits so badly with me. I have let this novel marinate for a couple of days now before writing this, and I just keep coming back to the same issues. Namely:
Was this John Green's story to tell?
It is the human condition to attempt to find hope in hopeless situations. But let me attempt to explain how watching a 17 year old fade away truly feels. Because when the wit and words are stripped away I am not sure John did that.
It is endless. It is an unavoidable and uncontrollable and an all encompassing darkness where no hope or life or explanations exist.
There are absolutely no life lessons to be gained from watching a 17 year old cease to exist. There is no comfort. The lessons that some may claim you can achieve through the darkest night of the soul reveal most of humanity for the selfish, narcissistic beings we are.
I have come to believe there is a special kind of cruelty behind the perfectly cross stitched 'encouragement'. Those things are for the ones left over trying to make sense of the senseless.
Whilst I believe this novel acknowledges that. It tries not to, as the main protagonists claimed theirselves, set the victims of disease up as typical heroic, worldly wise characters, it still reads like a novel attempting to bring equilibrium out of disaster. The victims ultimately still are wise beyond their years. This, it seems, is an assumed side effect of a teenager coming to terms with their mortality. They use metaphors and pretentious poetry and a sharp wit and are wholly unbelievable as real life teenagers. They are constructs of an ideal. They are the literary version of Dawson's Creek, using SAT vocabulary and existential navel gazing, whilst simultaneously slamming the typical genre for using its characters to do the same.
Having lived this first hand; once with a brother who ceases to exist at 17 and a second time with a brother who is currently 2 years NEC. I am all too familiar with the need for light hearted humour at what may feel like the most inappropriate of times. But what differs from that and attempting to write a disease ridden novel that attempts to make you laugh, is apparently personal experience.
I have the right to sit around a Christmas table laughing somewhat hysterically at nothing. My living brother has the right to crack UNO-ball jokes whenever the opportunity arises. But none of the readers of this novel who have not experienced the kind of loss depicted here have a right to laugh at any of it. You can not claim it as your own unless it is yours, and in my mind that is what humour does. It is not appropriate for me to laugh along with eye jokes and blind jokes, because they are not my jokes. I am merely a voyeur in another persons tragedy, I lay no claim to having the understanding of the experience necessary to allow for laughter.
Again, let me make clear. I can not approach this book outside of my personal experience. Of course in reality I do not believe you have to have experienced everything to laugh at a joke. But in terms of purposefully trying to create humour in a novel that is fundamentally tragic, for an audience that is mostly YA, I struggle with. I struggle with it because the empty platitudes that are trying so hard to be subverted in this novel, are still being created. It is still suggesting there can be lightness and humour within the terminally dark - and it is suggesting it to people who have never experienced the terminally dark.
This read like a novel where the author has truly witnessed the emptiness of teenage terminal illness, and thankfully appears to have become more considerate and thoughtful for it. As opposed to erring on the side of platitudes.
But it still read as a novel attempting to explain where the hope in hopeless situations are.
Perhaps because it is too raw a subject for me, or perhaps because the novel really is sentimental and gratuitous (granted in a different way from the norm of this genre) but this is not a book I would recommend.
For sufferers, for family members of sufferers, or for well meaning people seeking to understand the hopelessness of some situations. I would recommend it for none.
This is a beautifully written book. There is very little to complain about in terms of style, plot, character, etc. However I couldn't, in all good conscience, give this any higher because it sits so badly with me. I have let this novel marinate for a couple of days now before writing this, and I just keep coming back to the same issues. Namely:
Was this John Green's story to tell?
It is the human condition to attempt to find hope in hopeless situations. But let me attempt to explain how watching a 17 year old fade away truly feels. Because when the wit and words are stripped away I am not sure John did that.
It is endless. It is an unavoidable and uncontrollable and an all encompassing darkness where no hope or life or explanations exist.
There are absolutely no life lessons to be gained from watching a 17 year old cease to exist. There is no comfort. The lessons that some may claim you can achieve through the darkest night of the soul reveal most of humanity for the selfish, narcissistic beings we are.
I have come to believe there is a special kind of cruelty behind the perfectly cross stitched 'encouragement'. Those things are for the ones left over trying to make sense of the senseless.
Whilst I believe this novel acknowledges that. It tries not to, as the main protagonists claimed theirselves, set the victims of disease up as typical heroic, worldly wise characters, it still reads like a novel attempting to bring equilibrium out of disaster. The victims ultimately still are wise beyond their years. This, it seems, is an assumed side effect of a teenager coming to terms with their mortality. They use metaphors and pretentious poetry and a sharp wit and are wholly unbelievable as real life teenagers. They are constructs of an ideal. They are the literary version of Dawson's Creek, using SAT vocabulary and existential navel gazing, whilst simultaneously slamming the typical genre for using its characters to do the same.
Having lived this first hand; once with a brother who ceases to exist at 17 and a second time with a brother who is currently 2 years NEC. I am all too familiar with the need for light hearted humour at what may feel like the most inappropriate of times. But what differs from that and attempting to write a disease ridden novel that attempts to make you laugh, is apparently personal experience.
I have the right to sit around a Christmas table laughing somewhat hysterically at nothing. My living brother has the right to crack UNO-ball jokes whenever the opportunity arises. But none of the readers of this novel who have not experienced the kind of loss depicted here have a right to laugh at any of it. You can not claim it as your own unless it is yours, and in my mind that is what humour does. It is not appropriate for me to laugh along with eye jokes and blind jokes, because they are not my jokes. I am merely a voyeur in another persons tragedy, I lay no claim to having the understanding of the experience necessary to allow for laughter.
Again, let me make clear. I can not approach this book outside of my personal experience. Of course in reality I do not believe you have to have experienced everything to laugh at a joke. But in terms of purposefully trying to create humour in a novel that is fundamentally tragic, for an audience that is mostly YA, I struggle with. I struggle with it because the empty platitudes that are trying so hard to be subverted in this novel, are still being created. It is still suggesting there can be lightness and humour within the terminally dark - and it is suggesting it to people who have never experienced the terminally dark.
This read like a novel where the author has truly witnessed the emptiness of teenage terminal illness, and thankfully appears to have become more considerate and thoughtful for it. As opposed to erring on the side of platitudes.
But it still read as a novel attempting to explain where the hope in hopeless situations are.
Perhaps because it is too raw a subject for me, or perhaps because the novel really is sentimental and gratuitous (granted in a different way from the norm of this genre) but this is not a book I would recommend.
For sufferers, for family members of sufferers, or for well meaning people seeking to understand the hopelessness of some situations. I would recommend it for none.
February 13, 2016
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars
But in ourselves.
This is the first time I鈥檝e truly been at a loss for words. What am I supposed to say? How can I do this book justice? Maybe tell you all that it was perfect? The best, most heartbreaking, hilarious book that has touched me like none other? Sure. I mean, it's been said countless times, in countless reviews, and you know what? They are absolutely, a hundred and fifty percent true.
Hazel's days are numbered thanks to her crap lungs. She was able to buy a few years more, thanks to a miracle, but she isn't fooling herself. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
I don't think I've ever cried so much, laughed so much, just over all enjoyed a book as much as I have while reading The Fault in Our Stars. Everything that goes on is serious, heartbreaking and eye opening but John Green does an amazing job at, literally, making you laugh out loud. Even when you're suffering.
Hazel... what a breathe of fresh air her character was. She was real and I loved her no bullshit attitude. She wasn't fooling herself, and John Green didn't make her out to be ecstatic with the world or her situation. She wasn't bitchy or depressing, but it wasn't like she was perfectly fine to sit idly and watch the time tick by.
Augustus Waters is my dream guy. Like, for real. As I wrote on an update: Screw all the Christian Grey鈥檚 and the Gideon Cross鈥�, just give be Augustus Waters.
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
I fell in love with everything that was鈥� him.
I was completely emotionally invested into the story. It鈥檚 not just the main characters that stole my heart, Isaac, the parents, even her damn tank, Phillip, did as well. It was beautiful, it was hilarious, and it was perfect.
"Maybe okay will be our always."
Everybody tells you to have your tissues fully loaded because you鈥檙e going to need them, and of course my first thought is suuuureee. Don鈥檛 get me wrong, I鈥檝e teared up in plenty of books, but actually cried? Nah. Well, I step down and admit defeat. I freakin鈥� sobbed my heart out. John Green, you鈥檝e done what only few have been able to do... make me cry.
*A thanks to all the ladies that BR this with me (and the ones who crashed it) I wouldn鈥檛 have gone near this one with a ten foot pole without you all ;)
December 5, 2013
As seen on
currently has a rating of 4.74 on 欧宝娱乐, almost everyone I know has given it 5 stars, therefore I'm certain no one would want to read my sour musings, except me and maybe a couple of other like-minded and unimpressed.
What I'd love to know is this - what makes a writer undertake the topic of cancer? So much has already been written about it, so many Lifetime movies filmed, so many tears shed. It literally has been done to death. What new did have to bring to the cancer table?
The way I see it, nothing. Having your terminally sick characters be ironic about their illnesses and swap cancer jokes isn't groundbreaking.
isn't a bad book, but it's a standard cancer book, and, sadly, a standard book, with standard humor and standard characters speaking in the very same voice.
You have a witty and intelligent protagonist (this time 2, Hazel and Augustus - a female and male versions of Miles/Quentin/Colin), a funny, slightly pathetic sidekick (Isaac - another version of Hassan/Chip/Marcus), a mysterious, unhinged girl, Gus's dead ex (Alaska/Margo clone), and, of course, the signature ROAD TRIP. I can't help but recognize these people and this plot, I've read all of Green's novels.
I understand why so many readers would have such an emotional response to the book. Nothing will get the ladies crying quicker than a kid dying of cancer. Add in some long farewells, painkillers, eulogies and funerals - you can collect buckets of tears. But, IMO, here Green aims for the most obvious, the most easily accessible emotions, for the most typical "life lessons." And for all Green's attempts to be subversive and to make fun of "cancer cliches" - inspirational quotes, heroic cancer survivors, etc. he ended up writing about exactly the same things.
Frankly, I think is Green's weakest work to date, weaker even than half-baked . Because this, unlike his earlier works, feels commercial and intentionally tearjerky and insincere. It will probably sell the most copies.
currently has a rating of 4.74 on 欧宝娱乐, almost everyone I know has given it 5 stars, therefore I'm certain no one would want to read my sour musings, except me and maybe a couple of other like-minded and unimpressed.
What I'd love to know is this - what makes a writer undertake the topic of cancer? So much has already been written about it, so many Lifetime movies filmed, so many tears shed. It literally has been done to death. What new did have to bring to the cancer table?
The way I see it, nothing. Having your terminally sick characters be ironic about their illnesses and swap cancer jokes isn't groundbreaking.
isn't a bad book, but it's a standard cancer book, and, sadly, a standard book, with standard humor and standard characters speaking in the very same voice.
You have a witty and intelligent protagonist (this time 2, Hazel and Augustus - a female and male versions of Miles/Quentin/Colin), a funny, slightly pathetic sidekick (Isaac - another version of Hassan/Chip/Marcus), a mysterious, unhinged girl, Gus's dead ex (Alaska/Margo clone), and, of course, the signature ROAD TRIP. I can't help but recognize these people and this plot, I've read all of Green's novels.
I understand why so many readers would have such an emotional response to the book. Nothing will get the ladies crying quicker than a kid dying of cancer. Add in some long farewells, painkillers, eulogies and funerals - you can collect buckets of tears. But, IMO, here Green aims for the most obvious, the most easily accessible emotions, for the most typical "life lessons." And for all Green's attempts to be subversive and to make fun of "cancer cliches" - inspirational quotes, heroic cancer survivors, etc. he ended up writing about exactly the same things.
Frankly, I think is Green's weakest work to date, weaker even than half-baked . Because this, unlike his earlier works, feels commercial and intentionally tearjerky and insincere. It will probably sell the most copies.
April 13, 2014
This is me after I finished the book (and whenever I think about it).
*pointless EDIT* Woooah! 1000+ likes!? I'm surprised how many people are willing to read my little blurb of nothingness!
*EDIT* In a lot of peoples reviews I keep seeing "they don't talk their age!" or "They make these beautiful long speeches which is something that normal teenagers don't do" and I have to point out that Augustus and Hazel AREN'T normal teenagers. They've had to go through so much more in their lifetime than a lot of teenagers will ever have to, and its aged them. And quite honestly, this book wouldn't be as good if they were "normal" (whatever that means)
*sighs* okay I'm done, proceed with reading. If you want to, I'm just tiny words on a screen. Do whatever you want.
As much of an amazing writer as I want to be.... I'm really not. So I'll just point out the things that made this book amazing. ;)
I knew that I would cry so I really didn't bother swearing not to cry. What I didn't expect is bawling my eyes out. I really didn't. John Green has done an amazing job of making these characters feel so real to me. When they cried, I cried (bawled). When they laughed, I laughed. When they melted, I melted. Their romance was so epic and I know, I KNOW, that this is a book I will read over and over again and cry every single time.
The characters were perfection! Especially Augustus Waters. Not only is his name Augustus (which is epic in itself) He had the guts to go up to Hazel and just straight up ask her to come hang out with him. Nice guys finish last? I think not.
You know this book was so awesmazing that I gave it its own tag. Just look up there and you'll see a little tag that says "the-fault-in-our-stars". It was THAT amazing. Seriously. So amazing that I'm pretty sure it was my first heartbreak... from a book. I really haven't felt that much from a book, much less a person, in a very long time. (I'm kind of a loner and a commitment phob... not a good mix) But my heart didn't just do this 3, it did this 禄 *BOOM!* (didn't have a sign for that)
I wish I could write more about this book, but I just can't explain the amazingness of it with my simple, unworthy words, so I am going to tell you what you NEED to do....
READ IT
June 10, 2012
John Green.
John Green.
John Green.
You're not like Peter Van Houten, are you?
What have you done to my brain...
and my heart...
I'm not gonna review how exquisite John Green can write, or how he can create characters as special as Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters, or how amazing he can tell a story. Despite the huge number of ratings and the spectacular average rating, this book is not perfect. You might find it unrealistic, because if there are many of us who see the life and its complexity like Hazel and Gus do, this world will be such a happy place. So like any other book, this one also might be a miss or a hit. If it's a miss, then you can say it's not worth the hype. But if it's a hit, it hits hard.
Everything in this book: the characters, the story, the words, they all have the power to be an inspiration. If you haven't read it, I suggest to take the chance.
January 18, 2024
john green deserves an apology from the not-like-other-girls vibes of the 2010s
he put his whole greenussy into this. and maybe his authorial voice doesn't totally match up to a 16 year old girl's. maybe the big words were big wordin' a lil too hard. but teens are annoying. they care about philosophy and contemplate death. i was one of em!
i love the discussion of legacy. and grief. and normally i don't fuck with quotable books but the quotes here... go hard.
ily john green. thank you for YOUR legacy.
he put his whole greenussy into this. and maybe his authorial voice doesn't totally match up to a 16 year old girl's. maybe the big words were big wordin' a lil too hard. but teens are annoying. they care about philosophy and contemplate death. i was one of em!
i love the discussion of legacy. and grief. and normally i don't fuck with quotable books but the quotes here... go hard.
ily john green. thank you for YOUR legacy.
August 19, 2017
This is the John Green-i-est book of all John Green books, and I hate it and him more than anything.
My sister and I actually have a running joke where we just quote this book back and forth to each other. Although honestly anytime anyone says "It's a metaphor," I immediately say "ya put tha killin' thing between ya teeth but ya don't give it the power to do its killin'!", affecting the mannerisms of a stereotypical paperboy from the 1920s.
It gets a laugh every time. (Or at least a sound of disgust, which is just as satisfying within this context.)
There are just so many laughable quotes. "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: Slowly, then all at once." "Some infinities are bigger than other infinities." "It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you." "Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence." (That one is a good one if you, like me, love your friends a lot but are bad at compliments. This will ensure that they know you love them, but also prevent them from ever wanting to talk to you ever again.)
Oh, and: "My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations." (That last one is probably my favorite, because it gets the most horrified reaction from the audience.) And how could I almost forget the classics: "Maybe 'okay' could be our 'always.'" (Also, of course I had to look up those quotes. While I love John Green jokes, my brain is so inherently opposed to him that I cannot memorize his sh*t for the life of me. I still mess up the killing thing between your teeth quote, and I say that one at least weekly.)
Anyway. It's comedy gold because this crap is cringe-worth-i-ly affected and pretentious and unrealistic, but also focuses on basic key words and concepts you can latch onto and bring up in pretty much any given conversation.
What? Yes, all of my friends do hate me. Why do you ask?
I am just about full to bursting and sick to death of John Green's quasi-profound books and boring guys and manic girls and token diverse background characters with one quirk and not much else. I don't know how much more pretentious dialogue and profound ponderings and fake teenage angst I can take.
Perhaps unsurprisingly,t his is not so much of a mini review, but I feel like I've had a buildup of John Green-directed anger of late. Don't get me wrong, I'm constantly boiling in it, just due to who I am as a person, but his return to writing and that ugly cover reveal are making me even madder. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, JOHN. IS THIS BECAUSE YOU KNOW I WILL HAVE TO READ YOUR NEW BOOK, SINCE I HAVE LONG JUSTIFIED MY HATRED FOR YOU BY SAYING I'VE READ ALL YOUR SH*T AND DISLIKED IT ALL?
Can you tell that I somewhat irrationally believe he knows that I hate him? I've been so outspoken about it. Granted, over half of that outright opposition took place in my junior year AP World History class, but still. The man could have eyes everywhere.
Why, you may ask, do I continue to scream about him if I'm so scared he and his cringey YouTube videos and rabid fans will come for my life?
Because he is horrible. I enjoy ranting about horrible people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.
(This is part of a project I am doing wherein I write mini reviews of books I read a long time ago. Yes, I am aware that this doesn't exactly fit anyone's definition of a mini review.)
My sister and I actually have a running joke where we just quote this book back and forth to each other. Although honestly anytime anyone says "It's a metaphor," I immediately say "ya put tha killin' thing between ya teeth but ya don't give it the power to do its killin'!", affecting the mannerisms of a stereotypical paperboy from the 1920s.
It gets a laugh every time. (Or at least a sound of disgust, which is just as satisfying within this context.)
There are just so many laughable quotes. "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: Slowly, then all at once." "Some infinities are bigger than other infinities." "It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you." "Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence." (That one is a good one if you, like me, love your friends a lot but are bad at compliments. This will ensure that they know you love them, but also prevent them from ever wanting to talk to you ever again.)
Oh, and: "My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations." (That last one is probably my favorite, because it gets the most horrified reaction from the audience.) And how could I almost forget the classics: "Maybe 'okay' could be our 'always.'" (Also, of course I had to look up those quotes. While I love John Green jokes, my brain is so inherently opposed to him that I cannot memorize his sh*t for the life of me. I still mess up the killing thing between your teeth quote, and I say that one at least weekly.)
Anyway. It's comedy gold because this crap is cringe-worth-i-ly affected and pretentious and unrealistic, but also focuses on basic key words and concepts you can latch onto and bring up in pretty much any given conversation.
What? Yes, all of my friends do hate me. Why do you ask?
I am just about full to bursting and sick to death of John Green's quasi-profound books and boring guys and manic girls and token diverse background characters with one quirk and not much else. I don't know how much more pretentious dialogue and profound ponderings and fake teenage angst I can take.
Perhaps unsurprisingly,t his is not so much of a mini review, but I feel like I've had a buildup of John Green-directed anger of late. Don't get me wrong, I'm constantly boiling in it, just due to who I am as a person, but his return to writing and that ugly cover reveal are making me even madder. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, JOHN. IS THIS BECAUSE YOU KNOW I WILL HAVE TO READ YOUR NEW BOOK, SINCE I HAVE LONG JUSTIFIED MY HATRED FOR YOU BY SAYING I'VE READ ALL YOUR SH*T AND DISLIKED IT ALL?
Can you tell that I somewhat irrationally believe he knows that I hate him? I've been so outspoken about it. Granted, over half of that outright opposition took place in my junior year AP World History class, but still. The man could have eyes everywhere.
Why, you may ask, do I continue to scream about him if I'm so scared he and his cringey YouTube videos and rabid fans will come for my life?
Because he is horrible. I enjoy ranting about horrible people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.
(This is part of a project I am doing wherein I write mini reviews of books I read a long time ago. Yes, I am aware that this doesn't exactly fit anyone's definition of a mini review.)
September 10, 2023
鈥淪ome infinites are bigger than other infinites.鈥�
In this novel we meet the story of "Hazel Lancaster鈥�, a fragile sixteen years old with terminal lung cancer. Life is hard, but that much harder even still with cancer. Each day is fiercely fought against a certain fatal destiny; until one day Hazel crosses paths with "Augustus Waters", another young terminal soul. Even in those days close to death, life can unexpectedly turn and change forever, for good, and for bad.
Reading with your heart is sometimes dangerous, but it is the only way I know to read. I swear with this book made me feel ill and die a little, and maybe a tiny part of me did. These pages contain an indescribable amount of pain, excruciating pain, but the magical moments within, perhaps scarce, but wonderfully unique, made this experience extremely worthwhile. An invariably tragic story, certain to make you tear again and again. Extremely moving, and, occasionally, very inspiring and uplifting; with a fair share of funny moments too. Heartbreakingly beautiful. An abundance of quotes and moments to remember. Highly Recommendable. A young adult masterpiece.
The movie (2014) is a nice adaptation, decently faithful to the book. Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort play an excellent lead. Many endearing moments, and a lot of tearing ones too. The book was vastly superior in every single way, of course; still, in a world where movies so often butcher the book, the TFIOS movie is a wonderful experience to complement the reading, and a whole lot less painful; easier to watch, easier to love.
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PERSONAL NOTE :
[2015] [313p] [Young Adult] [Highly Recommendable] [Cool Isaac] [Unyielding Hazel] [Sweet Augustus] [Painful Magic] [Anne Frank Scene <3 ] [TBR: An Imperial Affliction]
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鈽呪槄鈽呪槄鈽� The Fault in Our Stars
鈽呪槄鈽呪槄鈽� Looking for Alaska
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鈥淎lgunos infinitos son m谩s grande que otros infinitos.鈥�
En esta novela conocemos la historia de 鈥淗azel Lancaster鈥�, una fr谩gil chica de diecis茅is a帽os con c谩ncer terminal de pulm贸n. La vida es dif铆cil, pero mucho m谩s a煤n con c谩ncer. Cada d铆a es ferozmente ganado contra un certero fatal destino; hasta que un d铆a Hazel se cruza con 鈥淎ugustus Waters鈥�, otra joven alma terminal. Incluso en los d铆as cercanos a la muerte, la vida puede inesperadamente dar giros y cambiar para siempre, para bien, y para mal.
Leer con el coraz贸n es a veces peligroso, pero es la 煤nica forma en la que s茅 leer. Podr铆a jurar que con este libro me sent铆 enfermar y morir un poco, y quiz谩 una peque帽a parte de m铆 lo hizo. Estas p谩ginas contienen una indescriptible cantidad de dolor, dolor insoportable, pero los momentos m谩gicos dentro, tal vez escasos, pero maravillosamente 煤nicos, hacen esta experiencia extremadamente valedera. Una historia invariablemente tr谩gica, certera en hacerte lagrimear una y otra vez. Extremadamente conmovedora y, ocasionalmente, igualmente inspiradora y esperanzadora; con una justa dosis de momentos graciosos tambi茅n. Hermosamente desgarrador. Una abundancia de citas y momentos para el recuerdo. Altamente Recomendable. Una obra maestra del g茅nero Joven Adulto.
La pel铆cula (2014) es una linda adaptaci贸n, decentemente fiel al libro. Shailene Woodley y Ansel Elgort llevan un excelente protagonismo. Muchos momentos entra帽ables, y muchos otros desgarradores tambi茅n. El libro es vastamente superior en cada aspecto, seguro; pero, en un mundo donde las pel铆culas tan seguido masacran el libro original, la pel铆cula TFIOS es una experiencia maravillosa para complementar la lectura. Un mont贸n menos dolorosa; m谩s f谩cil de ver, m谩s f谩cil de amar.
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NOTA PERSONAL :
[2015] [313p] [Joven Adulto] [Altamente Recomendable] [Capo Isaac] [Inflexible Hazel] [Dulce Augustus] [Dolorosa Magia] [Escena Anne Frank <3 ] [TBR: Una Aflicci贸n Imperial]
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In this novel we meet the story of "Hazel Lancaster鈥�, a fragile sixteen years old with terminal lung cancer. Life is hard, but that much harder even still with cancer. Each day is fiercely fought against a certain fatal destiny; until one day Hazel crosses paths with "Augustus Waters", another young terminal soul. Even in those days close to death, life can unexpectedly turn and change forever, for good, and for bad.
Reading with your heart is sometimes dangerous, but it is the only way I know to read. I swear with this book made me feel ill and die a little, and maybe a tiny part of me did. These pages contain an indescribable amount of pain, excruciating pain, but the magical moments within, perhaps scarce, but wonderfully unique, made this experience extremely worthwhile. An invariably tragic story, certain to make you tear again and again. Extremely moving, and, occasionally, very inspiring and uplifting; with a fair share of funny moments too. Heartbreakingly beautiful. An abundance of quotes and moments to remember. Highly Recommendable. A young adult masterpiece.
The movie (2014) is a nice adaptation, decently faithful to the book. Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort play an excellent lead. Many endearing moments, and a lot of tearing ones too. The book was vastly superior in every single way, of course; still, in a world where movies so often butcher the book, the TFIOS movie is a wonderful experience to complement the reading, and a whole lot less painful; easier to watch, easier to love.
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PERSONAL NOTE :
[2015] [313p] [Young Adult] [Highly Recommendable] [Cool Isaac] [Unyielding Hazel] [Sweet Augustus] [Painful Magic] [Anne Frank Scene <3 ] [TBR: An Imperial Affliction]
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鈽呪槄鈽呪槄鈽� The Fault in Our Stars
鈽呪槄鈽呪槄鈽� Looking for Alaska
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鈥淎lgunos infinitos son m谩s grande que otros infinitos.鈥�
En esta novela conocemos la historia de 鈥淗azel Lancaster鈥�, una fr谩gil chica de diecis茅is a帽os con c谩ncer terminal de pulm贸n. La vida es dif铆cil, pero mucho m谩s a煤n con c谩ncer. Cada d铆a es ferozmente ganado contra un certero fatal destino; hasta que un d铆a Hazel se cruza con 鈥淎ugustus Waters鈥�, otra joven alma terminal. Incluso en los d铆as cercanos a la muerte, la vida puede inesperadamente dar giros y cambiar para siempre, para bien, y para mal.
Leer con el coraz贸n es a veces peligroso, pero es la 煤nica forma en la que s茅 leer. Podr铆a jurar que con este libro me sent铆 enfermar y morir un poco, y quiz谩 una peque帽a parte de m铆 lo hizo. Estas p谩ginas contienen una indescriptible cantidad de dolor, dolor insoportable, pero los momentos m谩gicos dentro, tal vez escasos, pero maravillosamente 煤nicos, hacen esta experiencia extremadamente valedera. Una historia invariablemente tr谩gica, certera en hacerte lagrimear una y otra vez. Extremadamente conmovedora y, ocasionalmente, igualmente inspiradora y esperanzadora; con una justa dosis de momentos graciosos tambi茅n. Hermosamente desgarrador. Una abundancia de citas y momentos para el recuerdo. Altamente Recomendable. Una obra maestra del g茅nero Joven Adulto.
La pel铆cula (2014) es una linda adaptaci贸n, decentemente fiel al libro. Shailene Woodley y Ansel Elgort llevan un excelente protagonismo. Muchos momentos entra帽ables, y muchos otros desgarradores tambi茅n. El libro es vastamente superior en cada aspecto, seguro; pero, en un mundo donde las pel铆culas tan seguido masacran el libro original, la pel铆cula TFIOS es una experiencia maravillosa para complementar la lectura. Un mont贸n menos dolorosa; m谩s f谩cil de ver, m谩s f谩cil de amar.
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NOTA PERSONAL :
[2015] [313p] [Joven Adulto] [Altamente Recomendable] [Capo Isaac] [Inflexible Hazel] [Dulce Augustus] [Dolorosa Magia] [Escena Anne Frank <3 ] [TBR: Una Aflicci贸n Imperial]
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May 20, 2013
Venn you vish upon a star...
July 14, 2013
I had never read a John Green novel prior to reading this one. I wanted very much to like it and felt certain after reading some of the overwhelmingly positive reviews here that it would be an awesome and heartbreaking experience. I was ready and excited. I guess I could sum the experience up best by stating that it is unlikely I will read another book by this author, and if I do it will be sometime in the future when I forget how utterly disappointing I found this book to be.听
I had a lot of problems with this book. Overall, it felt very insincere and I was constantly distracted by how obviously everything was written with the goal of tugging on the reader's heart strings, rather than just letting things happen that were beautiful in spite of being sad. It felt like Mr. Green was screaming at me from the page 'ARE YOU SAD YET? YOU'RE SAD RIGHT? THIS IS SAD. YOU SHOULD FEEL ALL THE THINGS AND CRY ABOUT IT. I'M A GOOD WRITER. I WRITE FEELINGS. ARE YOU CRYING YET?' For a story about Human Beings, it doesn't feel very human at all. Instead everything feels very unnatural and self-conscious in the worst way.
The biggest and most impossible thing for me to get around was I simply didn't believe the character of Augustus or his relationship with main character Hazel. As these concepts 听are basically what the entire story hinges upon, I didn't believe in or care about anything else that happened either. Augustus came off completely pretentious and obnoxious, particularly in the way he insisted on speaking in a Diablo Cody nerd hipster sort of dialect that no one would ever use in the real world. (Some commenters here have said it's the way Mr. Green himself talks which, a.) way to be self-congratulatory, and b.) how does he not get punched in the face, like, ALL THE TIME?) His entire character felt contrived and I never once felt a connection with him. Too often it seemed like he was walking around like I AM SO CLEVER LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME, constantly putting on a show so that nothing from him felt genuine or real. His whole fascination with ultimately meaningless metaphors felt condescending, like Mr. Green constantly squealing HEY GUYS, SEE WHAT I DID THERE? TAKE A SECOND, WRITE IT DOWN IF YOU NEED TO. YEAH, I'M DEEP. Augustus' one fault was sickness, but it was nothing that he could control. And that's just so... boring.
But it wasn't just Augustus. The character of Hazel was somewhat likable, (despite Mr. Green's insistance on making her 'sound like a teenager' by formating every other statement she makes like it's a question? and tacking distracting 'or whatever's onto the end of random bits of dialogue BECAUSE THIS IS HOW TEENAGERS TALK RIGHT? I CAN TALK LIKE A TEENAGER, SEE? BECAUSE THEY SAY 'WHATEVER'. I'M A GOOD WRITER. ARE YOU FEELING THINGS YET?) but her relationship with Augustus felt completely and totally forced. There was never any real reason for them to fall in love with one another, and that is crossing dangerously close into Twilight territory. He was so convienient, so effortless for Hazel. I had to wonder, was it him or was it because he was there and ready and willing? It all fell flat and left so many places to take the stories and facets of their characters completely unexplored. Any opportunities to delve into hard questions and real answers were left untaken and exchanged for large passages (mainly in the **SPOLIER ALERT**: Amsterdam trip scenes) that had very little purpose outside of screaming LOOK AT THIS HANDSOME CHARMING BOY ISN'T HE SWEET LADIES? HE WILL PULL YOUR CHAIR OUT FOR YOU AND HE TALKS LIKE I DO. IT'S CHARMING, RIGHT? YOU ARE FEELING CHARMED. I'M A GOOD WRITER.听
Ultimately, it felt completely fake. I couldn't get lost in it, always fully aware of the fact that I was reading fiction and how irritating EVERYTHING about it was. I finished it, which is the only reason I gave it 2 stars, but it was a true task. Truthfully, it pissed me off. I would have loved to love this book as much as everyone else and have a new favorite to hold dear to my heart. Now I'm just confused. Was my copy broken?
I had a lot of problems with this book. Overall, it felt very insincere and I was constantly distracted by how obviously everything was written with the goal of tugging on the reader's heart strings, rather than just letting things happen that were beautiful in spite of being sad. It felt like Mr. Green was screaming at me from the page 'ARE YOU SAD YET? YOU'RE SAD RIGHT? THIS IS SAD. YOU SHOULD FEEL ALL THE THINGS AND CRY ABOUT IT. I'M A GOOD WRITER. I WRITE FEELINGS. ARE YOU CRYING YET?' For a story about Human Beings, it doesn't feel very human at all. Instead everything feels very unnatural and self-conscious in the worst way.
The biggest and most impossible thing for me to get around was I simply didn't believe the character of Augustus or his relationship with main character Hazel. As these concepts 听are basically what the entire story hinges upon, I didn't believe in or care about anything else that happened either. Augustus came off completely pretentious and obnoxious, particularly in the way he insisted on speaking in a Diablo Cody nerd hipster sort of dialect that no one would ever use in the real world. (Some commenters here have said it's the way Mr. Green himself talks which, a.) way to be self-congratulatory, and b.) how does he not get punched in the face, like, ALL THE TIME?) His entire character felt contrived and I never once felt a connection with him. Too often it seemed like he was walking around like I AM SO CLEVER LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME, constantly putting on a show so that nothing from him felt genuine or real. His whole fascination with ultimately meaningless metaphors felt condescending, like Mr. Green constantly squealing HEY GUYS, SEE WHAT I DID THERE? TAKE A SECOND, WRITE IT DOWN IF YOU NEED TO. YEAH, I'M DEEP. Augustus' one fault was sickness, but it was nothing that he could control. And that's just so... boring.
But it wasn't just Augustus. The character of Hazel was somewhat likable, (despite Mr. Green's insistance on making her 'sound like a teenager' by formating every other statement she makes like it's a question? and tacking distracting 'or whatever's onto the end of random bits of dialogue BECAUSE THIS IS HOW TEENAGERS TALK RIGHT? I CAN TALK LIKE A TEENAGER, SEE? BECAUSE THEY SAY 'WHATEVER'. I'M A GOOD WRITER. ARE YOU FEELING THINGS YET?) but her relationship with Augustus felt completely and totally forced. There was never any real reason for them to fall in love with one another, and that is crossing dangerously close into Twilight territory. He was so convienient, so effortless for Hazel. I had to wonder, was it him or was it because he was there and ready and willing? It all fell flat and left so many places to take the stories and facets of their characters completely unexplored. Any opportunities to delve into hard questions and real answers were left untaken and exchanged for large passages (mainly in the **SPOLIER ALERT**: Amsterdam trip scenes) that had very little purpose outside of screaming LOOK AT THIS HANDSOME CHARMING BOY ISN'T HE SWEET LADIES? HE WILL PULL YOUR CHAIR OUT FOR YOU AND HE TALKS LIKE I DO. IT'S CHARMING, RIGHT? YOU ARE FEELING CHARMED. I'M A GOOD WRITER.听
Ultimately, it felt completely fake. I couldn't get lost in it, always fully aware of the fact that I was reading fiction and how irritating EVERYTHING about it was. I finished it, which is the only reason I gave it 2 stars, but it was a true task. Truthfully, it pissed me off. I would have loved to love this book as much as everyone else and have a new favorite to hold dear to my heart. Now I'm just confused. Was my copy broken?
April 25, 2023
So, book, you decided not to play fair, huh? You used Tearjerking 101, huh? You armed yourself with adorably precocious teenage characters delivering insanely quotable lines while dying from cancer, huh?
Well, guess what - "I'm not cryyyyying! It's just been raining on my face..."
Like with any literature, what you get out of this book varies based on how you choose to interpret it.
You can see it as a shameless use of a serious medical condition in children in order to make money and get recognition (because it's kids dying from cancer, c'mon!)
And you know what? All these are to some extent true.
But what I got out of it, what made me tear up a bit was the motif of fragility of life as seen by the children who have a limited supply of that life, basically a limited 'infinity'. Reading it, I got a few flashbacks to Pediatric Oncology - the time in medical school when I realized that I'm not strong enough to be a pediatrician and see kids suffer and die.
Hazel Lancaster and Augustus Waters are the two children with cancer. She has terminal thyroid cancer and is tethered to an oxygen tank; he falls victim to metastatic osteosarcoma (before you scream 'Spoiler!' in outrage, I sincerely ask you - how could you not have seen it coming?) They introduce themselves in their cancer support group by stating their diagnoses - and my heart breaks a little at the thought of children learning to define themselves by their disease. Even their favorite book is the cancer book.
But no, "I'm not cryyyying...."
I think this book would have a huge appeal to teenagers, its intended audience. The characters are relatable, they are intelligent, and the male lead manages to transform from 'oh, rly, jerk?' to a considerate and lovely young man. The parents are present in the lives of both teens and are portrayed in a very sympathetic light; definitely no 'absent parent syndrome' here! Plus, it has a healthy portrayal of teenage sexuality, unlike what we frequently see in young adult literature.
So great book? No. But I easily give it 3.75 stars and therefore rounding up to 4 stars (Is the fault in them? Go figure.)
Well, guess what - "I'm not cryyyyying! It's just been raining on my face..."
And so my hard-won cool image of a cold-hearted cynic has been saved by this line, courtesy of :Seriously, book, you know that most heartstrings cannot resist being tugged on in this fashion, especially when you are using kids who are off the charts on the precocious cuteness scale with all their precocious irony, precocious sarcasm, precocious world-weariness and precocious vocabulary.
Are you tired of reading the word 'precocious' yet? Too bad, since adorable and fragile precociousness is at the 'literal heart' of this book. That's what alienated some readers - but I'm a sucker for precociousness in literature; guilty, your Honor!------
Like with any literature, what you get out of this book varies based on how you choose to interpret it.
You can see it as a shameless use of a serious medical condition in children in order to make money and get recognition (because it's kids dying from cancer, c'mon!)
Cancer in kids has been used as a tearjerker before. Google 'TV tropes Littlest Cancer Patient', please. Here, .You can see it as a cutesy young adult love story. You can see it as a collection of quotable lines clearly put into the speech of teens by the middle-aged author. You can see it as yet another coming-of-age novel (there's even a requisite trip/adventure in there, really). You can even see it as a book trying really hard to NOT be a stereotypical 'cancer book' - to the point where characters are stating so at length.
And you know what? All these are to some extent true.
But what I got out of it, what made me tear up a bit was the motif of fragility of life as seen by the children who have a limited supply of that life, basically a limited 'infinity'. Reading it, I got a few flashbacks to Pediatric Oncology - the time in medical school when I realized that I'm not strong enough to be a pediatrician and see kids suffer and die.
Hazel Lancaster and Augustus Waters are the two children with cancer. She has terminal thyroid cancer and is tethered to an oxygen tank; he falls victim to metastatic osteosarcoma (before you scream 'Spoiler!' in outrage, I sincerely ask you - how could you not have seen it coming?) They introduce themselves in their cancer support group by stating their diagnoses - and my heart breaks a little at the thought of children learning to define themselves by their disease. Even their favorite book is the cancer book.
But no, "I'm not cryyyying...."
This is not a perfect book. It relies a little too heavily on tearjerking. Frequently, it gets to be a bit too full of itself, occasionally cringeworthy - sometimes to eye-rolling extent. But with the quotability factor and the smart precociousness still comes the real sadness and cuteness and feeling that clawed its way into my heart and made me love it despite the imperfections. Maybe I liked it because of associations and memories it brought with it rather than for its own merits - but hey, the emotions will stay with me for a while, whatever the reason for them may be.
I think this book would have a huge appeal to teenagers, its intended audience. The characters are relatable, they are intelligent, and the male lead manages to transform from 'oh, rly, jerk?' to a considerate and lovely young man. The parents are present in the lives of both teens and are portrayed in a very sympathetic light; definitely no 'absent parent syndrome' here! Plus, it has a healthy portrayal of teenage sexuality, unlike what we frequently see in young adult literature.
So great book? No. But I easily give it 3.75 stars and therefore rounding up to 4 stars (Is the fault in them? Go figure.)
鈥淭he pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.鈥�
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I'm gonna leave the rating blank now, cause I feel like I wouldn't have given this book five stars had I read it today. Yeah, it definitely impacted me once upon a time, but now... I've read so many unbelievably emotional books that this one just seems to, quite frankly, fade into the background. I've read a handful of eye-opening reviews and analyses that have made me see this book in a new light. A dimmer light, sadly.
Sorry to disappoint the people who liked my former review, where I claimed that this book was so "heart-destroying" and whatnot. That was my younger self being overly dramatic, I think.
I'm gonna leave the rating blank now, cause I feel like I wouldn't have given this book five stars had I read it today. Yeah, it definitely impacted me once upon a time, but now... I've read so many unbelievably emotional books that this one just seems to, quite frankly, fade into the background. I've read a handful of eye-opening reviews and analyses that have made me see this book in a new light. A dimmer light, sadly.
Sorry to disappoint the people who liked my former review, where I claimed that this book was so "heart-destroying" and whatnot. That was my younger self being overly dramatic, I think.
April 29, 2013
FIVE OKAY & INFINITE STARS
OKAY?
OKAY
There are almost 33000 reviews of this book. Why do I try to write one? I just don鈥檛 know but I do know that I have to let you know my thoughts about this AWESOME book.
I love YA. Even if I take YA holidays sometimes and stop reading it I can鈥檛 deny it鈥檚 one of my fave genres. This book and Forbidden are probably my favourite YA books and right now I cannot decide which one is my absolute favourite.
I knew about this book, I knew how it ended and I thought I couldn鈥檛 read it because the story was kind of personal for me but I will talk about that after my review.
This is the story of Hazel Grace & Augustus Water. Hazel has cancer and she meets Augustus at Support Group. They are ADORABLE. Hazel is the teen I always wanted to be: intelligent, funny, a great daughter and a very strong kid.
There is only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you鈥檙e sixteen, and that鈥檚 having a kid who bites it from cancer
And Augustus鈥� well, he鈥檚 just then teen boyfriend I always wanted to meet: charismatic, positive, funny, happy and a GREAT best friend.
鈥滻 enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence鈥�
Hazel Grace is just like us, she loves books and she specially loves her favourite book 鈥淎n Imperial Affliction鈥� by Peter Van Houten who happens to be her best friend, but let鈥檚 say this is a one-sided friendship. I also want a lot of authors to be my friends!
She tells Augustus about the book and he obviously reads it because he would do ANYTHING for Hazel Grace.
鈥滾ove is keeping the promise anyway鈥�
Enter Isaac, Augustus鈥� best friend. He鈥檚 the best friend I always wanted to have. A romantic, a fool romantic who has cancer in his eyes鈥�
This book is about love, friendship, fight, hope and life. And about infinites
As I mentioned, Hazel is obsessed with Peter Van Houten. Apparently he never finished his book An Imperial Affliction so she decides to mail him asking for answers. Because as she said, authors shouldn鈥檛 end their books if they鈥檙e not finished, right? I am gonna do the same with some authors鈥�
And of course, if you ever do decide to write anything else, even if you don鈥檛 want to publish it, I鈥檇 love to read it. Frankly, I鈥檇 read your grocery list.
I might have mentioned that to one of my favourite M/M authors. I am pathetic!
The days go by and Hazel and Augustus cannot stay away from each other and their relationship is soooooo freaking sweet. OMG, I am in love with Augustus Waters, he鈥檚 probably the BEST book boyfriend EVER.
鈥漁h my God, stop flirting with me!. We both know that okay is a very flirty word. Okay is BURSTING with sensuality鈥�.
I just loved how the author made me laugh so much. I mean, I was reading a book about kids with cancer, I wasn鈥檛 supposed to be laughing but I did. I did because those damn characters camped in my heart and they are planning to stay there forever.
鈥滻t would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you鈥�.
And you feel you鈥檙e discovering love for the first time with them all over again. Like true love, that kind of love that comes from a friendship. A love that is not based on how hot you are but how interesting you are. A love that is based in understanding each other, in accepting that we are grenades that can explode, in being there for each other no matter what.
This is probably one of the best and most real love stories I鈥檝e ever read in my entire life. I will never EVER forget this book, I actually ordered the paperback as I need to smell the book, I need to hug Hazel and tell her she鈥檚 my new best friend even if this is also a one-sided friendship. I need to tell Isaac that his special person is going to come to his life one day and he鈥檚 gonna know what real love is.
I need to hug Hazel鈥檚 father and tell him I freaking LOVE him because he reminded me of my father. A lot of families should take Hazel鈥檚 family as an example. You need to give love if you want to receive love and that鈥檚 what this family did.
鈥漈he world is not a wish-granting factory鈥�.
And even if the world is not a wish granting factory you cannot stop believing that good things will come because they will. You just need to be positive and enjoy what you have, enjoy every single second with the people you love just like Hazel & Augustus did.
鈥漎ou don鈥檛 get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.鈥�.
***The below is not about the book, is about my life, you might not want to read it but I have to say this***
That man on the picture was my best friend for almost 19 years, the man of my life, my half, the person who will be my example until the last day of my life. The person who taught me that reading was one of the best experiences in life. The BEST father ever!. His lungs didn鈥檛 keep their shit together, as Hazel would say and he left us three months after being diagnosed with cancer (almost 12 years ago).
While we were with chemo, and I say we because I used to go with him every Monday, I met a kid who was way too young to have cancer. I couldn鈥檛 understand why kids had cancer, it wasn鈥檛 fair.
Once my father was gone I wanted to get something positive about that horrible experience so I started volunteering with an association that helped kids with cancer: AVOI.
The guy who started this association had a kid with cancer who died and he decided to create this association to help families in that situation. He is an example for me. It wasn鈥檛 my moment anyway because everything was very fresh and I couldn鈥檛 help but think about my father every time I was with those kids and it鈥檚 hard when you go back week after week and there are some kids that are not there anymore鈥�
This book reminded me of that association. Life sucks sometimes but while you can, get the best of it. Tell your friends and family you love them, don鈥檛 assume they know you love them. Enjoy every single second with them because one day, death will take them or will take us.
I will give years of my life for one more evening with my dad, to hear his voice one more time so PLEASE show your love and enjoy your family and friends while you can.
I don鈥檛 want you guys to feel sad about my story because I was lucky, I got to have the BEST father ever and that鈥檚 something that makes me happy鈥�
January 15, 2023
[Edited 1/15/23]
I didn鈥檛 intend to like this book. Not having read this author before, I thought, who is this guy who writes YA stuff and has a video blog? But I read it because so many of my GR friends have read it and rated it highly.
Indeed, it鈥檚 a great book and not just YA. It gives a brilliant picture of three bright young people (barely college-age) struggling to deal with cancer. How do they deal with it? With loving parents, friendship, sarcasm, cynicism, irony, tears and anger.
The main character, a young woman, not only has to 鈥渇ight鈥� terminal cancer but has to deal with knowing she, a single child, is the 鈥渁lpha and omega of her parents鈥� suffering.鈥� Her father is constantly in tears. She is devastated when she overhears her mother say, 鈥淚 won鈥檛 be a mom anymore.鈥�
She falls in love with a young man who lost a leg to cancer, but is in remission, and who has just lost a girlfriend to cancer. Initially she won鈥檛 return his affection because she thinks 鈥淚鈥檓 a grenade鈥� and doesn鈥檛 want him to lose a second love. She corrects her parents when they say 鈥淓ven if you die鈥︹€� with 鈥淲hen I die鈥︹€�
There are so many reviews that I will just focus on the good writing, much of which is dialog.
鈥淏ut, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is side effect of dying.鈥�
鈥淥steosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. Then, if it likes you, it takes the rest.鈥�
鈥溾€y dad just kept telling me he loved me in this voice that was not breaking so much as already broken.鈥�
鈥淎nd yet I still worried. I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.鈥�
On phone calls with her boyfriend: 鈥溾€e were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.鈥�
鈥淪ometimes it seems the universe wants to be noticed.鈥� This statement could be the thesis for a philosophical treatise on consciousness.
She calls one of the more sterile hospitals a 鈥減rematorium.鈥�
One young man accidentally puts his hand on the leg of another young man who is terminal. 鈥淚鈥檓 taken鈥� he says.
And a real tear-jerker.
With the sale of 50 million books, John Green (b. 1977) is one of the best-selling authors of all time. Many of his books on 欧宝娱乐 have ratings numbering in the millions 鈥� right up there with the Harry Potters. After Fault, his most popular books are Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns and Turtles All the Way Down.
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The author from nytimes.com
I didn鈥檛 intend to like this book. Not having read this author before, I thought, who is this guy who writes YA stuff and has a video blog? But I read it because so many of my GR friends have read it and rated it highly.
Indeed, it鈥檚 a great book and not just YA. It gives a brilliant picture of three bright young people (barely college-age) struggling to deal with cancer. How do they deal with it? With loving parents, friendship, sarcasm, cynicism, irony, tears and anger.
The main character, a young woman, not only has to 鈥渇ight鈥� terminal cancer but has to deal with knowing she, a single child, is the 鈥渁lpha and omega of her parents鈥� suffering.鈥� Her father is constantly in tears. She is devastated when she overhears her mother say, 鈥淚 won鈥檛 be a mom anymore.鈥�
She falls in love with a young man who lost a leg to cancer, but is in remission, and who has just lost a girlfriend to cancer. Initially she won鈥檛 return his affection because she thinks 鈥淚鈥檓 a grenade鈥� and doesn鈥檛 want him to lose a second love. She corrects her parents when they say 鈥淓ven if you die鈥︹€� with 鈥淲hen I die鈥︹€�
There are so many reviews that I will just focus on the good writing, much of which is dialog.
鈥淏ut, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is side effect of dying.鈥�
鈥淥steosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. Then, if it likes you, it takes the rest.鈥�
鈥溾€y dad just kept telling me he loved me in this voice that was not breaking so much as already broken.鈥�
鈥淎nd yet I still worried. I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.鈥�
On phone calls with her boyfriend: 鈥溾€e were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.鈥�
鈥淪ometimes it seems the universe wants to be noticed.鈥� This statement could be the thesis for a philosophical treatise on consciousness.
She calls one of the more sterile hospitals a 鈥減rematorium.鈥�
One young man accidentally puts his hand on the leg of another young man who is terminal. 鈥淚鈥檓 taken鈥� he says.
And a real tear-jerker.
With the sale of 50 million books, John Green (b. 1977) is one of the best-selling authors of all time. Many of his books on 欧宝娱乐 have ratings numbering in the millions 鈥� right up there with the Harry Potters. After Fault, his most popular books are Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns and Turtles All the Way Down.
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August 12, 2024
My emotions and thoughts with this one are all over the place so let鈥檚 see what we can do鈥�.
The Fault in Our Stars is about Hazel Grace, a 16-year-old girl who has had some close brushes with death. She has thyroid cancer which has spread to her lungs. For now, the cancer is at bay with an experimental treatment. One day, she meets Augustus Waters in a support group, and the two strike up a friendship.
Along the way, Augustus and Hazel will try to find some answers from their favorite author. How will these two sort through their feelings for each other and to life鈥檚 deeper questions?
Personally, I really enjoyed the first half of the book, especially the witty banter between Hazel and Augustus.
However, the second half of the book is where things started to unravel.
This last year, I have had some very close brushes with death myself. In fact, I have died twice in the last year. My heart stopped.
At one point in the book, Hazel is lamenting, 鈥溾€�.there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. That is no honor in dying of.鈥�
This really, really bothered me, because, in my experience, this couldn鈥檛 be further from the truth.
I am alive today because of an incredibly brave young woman named Amy Lee Fisher.
Amy Lee Fisher was a YouTube creator who suffered from various illnesses. She was the only other person that I knew who had all of the same illnesses that I had. In her last YouTube video, she talked about having a blood clot which went to her lungs.
She died shortly thereafter.
Six months later, I was at The Mayo Clinic. My heart was in such bad shape that I could not even ride a stationary bike for 60 seconds. The doctors tried to send me home to start to some heart rhythm medications. Because of Amy鈥檚 recent passing flashing through my mind, I said that I would rather not.
I was admitted to the hospital. After reiterating Amy's experience with blood clots, the doctors stabbed me in the stomach every couple of hours with blood thinners. The next day, my heart medication failed. A couple of days later, I had heart surgery.
Without Amy, I would have gone home and died.
When I was wheeled into my heart surgery, was I worried? No. Sometimes when you are sick, you die, and there is nothing that you can do about it. However, if I was going to die, I wanted my death to mean something. I wanted to help other people. I wanted the doctors to know that the next time around to go right instead of left.
Amy Lee Fisher shared her story, and it saved my life. There is great honor in that.
2025 Reading Schedule
Jan A Town Like Alice
Feb Birdsong
Mar Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Berniere
Apr War and Peace
May The Woman in White
Jun Atonement
Jul The Shadow of the Wind
Aug Jude the Obscure
Sep Ulysses
Oct Vanity Fair
Nov A Fine Balance
Dec Germinal
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The Fault in Our Stars is about Hazel Grace, a 16-year-old girl who has had some close brushes with death. She has thyroid cancer which has spread to her lungs. For now, the cancer is at bay with an experimental treatment. One day, she meets Augustus Waters in a support group, and the two strike up a friendship.
Along the way, Augustus and Hazel will try to find some answers from their favorite author. How will these two sort through their feelings for each other and to life鈥檚 deeper questions?
Personally, I really enjoyed the first half of the book, especially the witty banter between Hazel and Augustus.
However, the second half of the book is where things started to unravel.
This last year, I have had some very close brushes with death myself. In fact, I have died twice in the last year. My heart stopped.
At one point in the book, Hazel is lamenting, 鈥溾€�.there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. That is no honor in dying of.鈥�
This really, really bothered me, because, in my experience, this couldn鈥檛 be further from the truth.
I am alive today because of an incredibly brave young woman named Amy Lee Fisher.
Amy Lee Fisher was a YouTube creator who suffered from various illnesses. She was the only other person that I knew who had all of the same illnesses that I had. In her last YouTube video, she talked about having a blood clot which went to her lungs.
She died shortly thereafter.
Six months later, I was at The Mayo Clinic. My heart was in such bad shape that I could not even ride a stationary bike for 60 seconds. The doctors tried to send me home to start to some heart rhythm medications. Because of Amy鈥檚 recent passing flashing through my mind, I said that I would rather not.
I was admitted to the hospital. After reiterating Amy's experience with blood clots, the doctors stabbed me in the stomach every couple of hours with blood thinners. The next day, my heart medication failed. A couple of days later, I had heart surgery.
Without Amy, I would have gone home and died.
When I was wheeled into my heart surgery, was I worried? No. Sometimes when you are sick, you die, and there is nothing that you can do about it. However, if I was going to die, I wanted my death to mean something. I wanted to help other people. I wanted the doctors to know that the next time around to go right instead of left.
Amy Lee Fisher shared her story, and it saved my life. There is great honor in that.
2025 Reading Schedule
Jan A Town Like Alice
Feb Birdsong
Mar Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Berniere
Apr War and Peace
May The Woman in White
Jun Atonement
Jul The Shadow of the Wind
Aug Jude the Obscure
Sep Ulysses
Oct Vanity Fair
Nov A Fine Balance
Dec Germinal
Connect With Me!
April 15, 2012
Holy holy holy I waited so long for this novel, so long. I wish so bad I could give it more than 5 stars. John Green is absolutely amazing, amazing, amazing. The Fault in Our Stars had me laughing and crying, then laughing more and crying more. I will reread this over and over again, just like the rest of his novels. Oh wow, was it ever worth the wait. Thank you, John Green, for being so damn spectacular.
August 9, 2021
The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
The Fault in Our Stars is the sixth novel by author John Green, published in January 2012.
The title is inspired by Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
The story is narrated by Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old girl with cancer.
Hazel is forced by her parents to attend a support group where she subsequently meets and falls in love with 17-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player and amputee.
A feature film adaptation of the novel directed by Josh Boone and starring Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort and Nat Wolff was released on June 6, 2014.
Both the book and its film adaptation were met with strong critical and commercial success.
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The Fault in Our Stars is the sixth novel by author John Green, published in January 2012.
The title is inspired by Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
The story is narrated by Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old girl with cancer.
Hazel is forced by her parents to attend a support group where she subsequently meets and falls in love with 17-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player and amputee.
A feature film adaptation of the novel directed by Josh Boone and starring Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort and Nat Wolff was released on June 6, 2014.
Both the book and its film adaptation were met with strong critical and commercial success.
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賵 趩賴 夭蹖亘丕爻鬲 亘賴 诏丕賴赛 爻丨乇貙 丌賳 睾賳趩賴 蹖 爻乇禺貙 讴賴 鬲賵 丕夭 禺丕賳賴 亘乇賵賳 丌賲丿蹖貙 丌賳 乇丕 趩蹖丿蹖貙 賵 趩賴 夭蹖亘丕爻鬲 賳爻蹖賲 爻丨乇蹖貙 倬卮鬲 倬乇趩蹖賳 诏賱蹖貙 讴賴貙 亘賴 丿蹖丿丕乇 丿賱蹖 賲蹖诏卮鬲蹖貙 賵 趩賴 睾賲诏蹖賳貙 讴賴 氐亘丕 丕夭 鬲賵 诏匕卮鬲貙 讴賵趩賴 乇賳噩蹖丿 夭 亘丕丿貙 賲丕賴 丿乇 亘乇讴賴 蹖 丌亘卮貙 趩賴 卮賳丕卅蹖 賲蹖讴乇丿貨 賳賵乇 丕夭 丕賵噩 賮乇賵丿 丌賲丿賴 亘賵丿貙 亘丕睾 乇丕 丿蹖丿賴貙 讴賴 丕胤乇丕賮 爻丨乇 乇蹖禺鬲賴 亘賵丿貨 丌爻賲丕賳 爻乇禺蹖 卮乇賲蹖 讴賴貙 夭 禺賱賵鬲诏賴 卮亘 爻丕禺鬲賴 亘賵丿貨 趩乇禺卮 丌亘 亘賴 丿丕賲丕賳 爻亘賵蹖 丿賱 讴賵賴貙 趩卮賲賴 丕賳丿丕禺鬲賴 亘賵丿貨 卮賵賯貙 禺賵丿 亘賵丿貙 賴賲丕賳 賯胤乇賴 蹖 丕卮讴蹖貙 讴賴 亘賴 诏賱 亘丕禺鬲賴 亘賵丿貨 賲賳 丿乇 丌卅蹖賳賴 鬲賲丕卮丕 讴乇丿賲貙 賳賵乇 亘乇賯蹖 亘賴 丿賱 氐丕賮 鬲賵 丌賵蹖禺鬲賴 亘賵丿貨 讴賵趩賴 丕夭 乇丕賴 诏匕卮鬲貙 鬲賵 亘賴 丿賳亘丕賱 丿賱鬲 賲蹖乇賮鬲蹖貨 賴乇 賯丿賲貙 毓胤乇 賳賮爻賴丕蹖 賴賲丕賳 睾賳趩賴 蹖 爻乇禺貨 卮賵賯赛 倬賳丿丕乇貙 爻亘賵蹖 丿賱赛 讴賵賴貨 乇丕賴赛 丿蹖丿丕乇貙 賴賲丕賳 亘乇讴賴 蹖 賲丕賴貨 丨爻乇鬲貙 丕夭 丌蹖賳賴 乇賳噩蹖丿 讴賴 賱亘禺賳丿 夭丿蹖貨 乇賵夭貙 丕夭 亘爻鬲乇 馗賱賲鬲 亘賴 丿乇 丌賲丿貙 讴賮賳卮 乇賳诏蹖賳 亘賵丿貨 爻丕蹖賴 賴丕貙 诏爻鬲乇卮赛 丌賴 卮亘貙 丌賴賳诏蹖賳 亘賵丿貨 睾賳趩賴 丿乇 丿爻鬲 鬲賵貙 亘賴 噩丕蹖 丿賱 賲賳 睾賲诏蹖賳 亘賵丿貨 卮毓乇诏賵賳賴 丕蹖 丕夭 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
賳丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 09/06/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 17/05/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
October 24, 2017
乇賵丕賷鬲賷賳 賮賷 賰鬲丕亘 賵丕丨丿.. 賵丕丨丿丞 鬲賳賴賷 丕賱兀禺乇賷貙 賲卮丕毓乇 賵丕賯毓賷丞貙毓丕乇賷丞 賵噩賲賷賱丞 !! 賵賲亘丕賱睾 賮賷 鬲賯賷賷賲賴丕
賱丕 丕毓乇賮 賰賷賮 丕乇鬲亘 丕賮賰丕乇賷 丨賵賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 兀賵 賲丕 兀賰鬲亘賴 毓賳賴丕貙 賮賲丕匕丕 兀賯賵賱 亘毓丿 賰賱 賲丕賯賷賱..乇亘賲丕 丕賱毓賷亘 賲賳賷貙 乇亘賲丕 賴賷 乇賵丕賷丞 鬲丨鬲丕噩 卮賷卅丕 賲賳 丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇
"Okay, maybe I鈥檓 not such a shitty writer. But I can鈥檛 pull my ideas together,賵賱賳亘丿兀 亘廿賳胤亘丕毓賷 丕賱兀賵賱
My Thoughts are stars,I can't fathom into Constellations"
丿毓賵鬲 丕賱賱賴 丕賱氐亘乇 賵丕賱鬲丨賲賱 賵鬲禺賮賷賮 丕賱賲毓丕賳丕丞 賵丕賱丕賱賲 賱賰賱 丕賱賲乇囟賷貙 賵爻乇毓丞 卮賮丕卅賴賲貙 賵丨賲丿鬲 丕賱賱賴 毓賱賷 賳毓賲丞 丕賱氐丨丞
賱丕 兀賵丿 丕賱禺賵囟 賮賷 丨賰賲丞 丕賱賲乇囟 賵丕賱兀亘鬲賱丕亍 亘丕賱丕禺氐 賮賷 毓賲乇 丕亘胤丕賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賵 丕氐睾乇 貙 乇亘賲丕 賱丕 兀賰賵賳 兀賮囟賱 賲賳 賷鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 丕賱丕賲賵乇 丕賱丿賷賳賷丞 貙 賱賰賳 亘丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 卮毓賵乇賷 賵鬲毓丕胤賮賷 亘丨丕賱 丕賱亘胤賱丞 賮賷 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬.. 賵兀賳 賴匕丕 丕賱賲乇囟 賯丿 賷禺乇噩 兀爻賵兀 賲丕 亘賰貙 丕賱丕 丕賳賷 丕爻鬲兀鬲 賰孬賷乇丕 賲賳 丕爻賱賵亘賴丕 賮賷 亘毓囟 丕賱丕丨賷丕賳 毓賳丿 丕賱鬲丨丿孬 毓賱賷 馗賱賲 丕賱丨賷丕丞 ...丕賵 馗賱賲 丕賱賯丿乇
賲丕 丨賰賲丞 丕賱賲乇囟...丕賱睾乇賷亘 兀賳 丕賱賲賱丕丨馗丞 噩丕亍鬲 亘卮賰賱 賲賱丕卅賲 賳賵毓丕 賲丕 毓賳丿賲丕 噩丕亍 毓賱賷 賱爻丕賳 賴丕夭賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱噩賲賱丞
賯丿 鬲賰賵賳 賯丕賱鬲賴丕 毓賳 丕賱賰賵賳貙 賱賰賳賴丕 毓賳 禺丕賱賯 丕賱賰賵賳 賳賮爻賴 賲賳 賵噩賴丞 賳馗乇賷
I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay....
賰賳鬲 兀賮賰乇 賮賷 兀賳 丕賱賰賵賳 賷乇賷丿 丕賳 賳賱丕丨馗賴 賵賳卮毓乇 亘賴 貙 賵丕賳賴 賷噩亘 毓賱賷賾 兀賳 丕鬲兀賲賱賴 亘賰賱 噩賴丿賷 賵丕爻鬲胤丕毓鬲賷貙 卮毓乇鬲 丕賳賳賷 賲購丿賷賳賴 賱賱賰賵賳 賵賮賯胤 亘丕賳鬲亘丕賴賷 賱賴 賵鬲兀賲賱賴 丕爻鬲胤賷毓 乇丿 賴匕丕 丕賱丿賷賳.."
I wished the author would add "The Creator of the Universe" wants to be noticed, with pray,or even just proper notice , not in a lame way or anything,I know many may think it'd be "direct speech" BUT I believe John Green isn't shitty writer to do that, So,He could do it better..If he wanted to.
賴匕丕 賴賵 賲丕鬲賵賯賮鬲 賮賷賴 賵丕毓噩亘賳賷 亘賱 賵乇賮毓 鬲賯賷賷賲賷 丕賳 賴丕夭賱 賮賷 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 卮毓乇鬲 亘賴匕丕 丕賱噩夭亍.. 丕賳賴丕 賲丿賷賳賴 賱賱毓丕賱賲 賵賱乇丿 賴匕丕 丕賱丿賷賳 賷噩亘 丕賳 鬲鬲丕賲賱賴 賵鬲賳鬲亘賴 賱賴
賵兀毓鬲賯丿 丕賳 噩賵賳 噩乇賷賳 賱賰丕賳 賲賵賮賯丕 丕賰孬乇 丕匕丕 賲丕 匕賰乇 卮賷卅丕 毓賳 禺丕賱賯 賴匕丕 丕賱賰賵賳 賵丕賱丿毓丕亍 賱賴.. 兀毓賱賲 丕賳賴 賯丿 賷乇賷 賮賷 賴匕丕 "禺胤丕亘 賲亘丕卮乇" 賵賱賰賳賷 丕毓賱賲 丕賳 丕賱賲丐賱賮 賱賷爻 亘賰丕鬲亘 爻卅 賰賷 賷賯毓 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱禺胤兀 賵賰丕賳 賷賲賰賳賴 丕賳 賷毓賲賯 丕賱賮賰乇丞 亘丿賵賳 丕賱賵賯賵毓 賮賷 禺胤兀 丕賱禺胤丕亘 丕賱賲亘丕卮乇
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賵賱賰賳 賱賳乇噩毓 賱賱兀丨賭賭賭丿丕孬
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賴丕夭賱 噩乇賷爻 賮鬲丕丞 賮賷 丕賱爻丕丿爻丞 毓卮乇 賲賳 毓賲乇賴丕貙 賲氐丕亘丞 亘爻乇胤丕賳 丕賱乇卅丞.. 賮鬲丕丞 賲賳 丕賱噩賷賱 丕賱噩丿賷丿貙 賵丕賯毓賷丞 貙 匕賰賷丞 貙 賵兀賷囟丕 氐賱亘丞 卮賷卅丕 賲丕...丕賳賴 丕賱賲乇囟 賰賲丕 鬲毓乇賮賵賳
鬲毓卮賯 乇賵丕賷丞 賲丕貙 賵賴賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱孬丕賳賷丞 -賰賲丕 賯賱鬲 乇賵丕賷鬲丕賳 賮賷 賰鬲丕亘- 賵鬲卮毓乇 亘丕賳賴丕 賯乇賷亘丞 賲賳賴丕 噩丿丕
:賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賴賷
赛
赛"An Imperial Affliction"
賵鬲丿賵乇 丕丨丿丕孬賴丕 丨賵賱 丌賳賭賾丕 貙 賮鬲丕丞 賮賷 丕賱爻丕丿爻賴 毓卮乇 賲賳 毓賲乇賴丕 貙 賲氐丕亘丞 亘爻乇胤丕賳 丕賷囟丕 貙 賵賱賰賳 賲賷夭丞 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賳賴丕 賱賷爻鬲 賰丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賯賱賷丿賷丞 貙 賵賱賰賳賴丕 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 賮丕賱亘胤賱丞 鬲丨賰賷 丕賱丕賱賲 亘賵丕賯毓賷丞 貙 賵賱丕賳賴丕 賱丕 鬲丨亘 丕賱賰賱丕卮賷賴丕鬲.. 賵賱丿賷賴丕 丨爻 爻丕禺乇 賮丕賳賴丕 鬲賳卮卅 噩賲毓賷丞 賱賷爻 賱賱爻乇胤丕賳 賵丕賳賲丕 賱賱賰賵賱賷乇丕 !!! 貙 丕賱賲賴賲 賵丕賱丿鬲賴丕 貙 賵丕賱鬲賷 賴賷 毓丕卅賱鬲賴丕 丕賱賵丨賷丿丞 貙 鬲鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賷 乇噩賱 賴賵賱賳丿賷 孬乇賷 賷亘丿賵 賲丨鬲乇賲丕 貙 賷毓乇囟 毓賱賷 賵丕賱丿鬲賴丕 丕賱夭賵丕噩 賵丕賱鬲賰賮賱 亘毓賱丕噩 丕賮囟賱 賱丌賳賭賾丕 貙 賵賱賰賳 丌賳賭賾丕 鬲卮賰 賮賷 丕賳賴 乇噩賱 毓氐丕亘丕鬲 ..賵鬲丿賵乇 丕賱丕賷丕賲 賵鬲亘丿兀 丕賱丕爻鬲毓丿丕丿丕鬲 賱夭賵丕噩 賵丕賱丿鬲賴丕 賵
賵賷賳鬲賴賷 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 亘賴匕賴 丕賱胤乇賷賯丞 丕賱賲賮丕噩兀丞 賱賴丕夭賱.. 亘丿賵賳 賳賴丕賷丞 貙 賵賲毓 匕賱賰 鬲毓卮賯 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 噩丿丕
鬲鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賷 丕賵噩爻鬲爻 賵鬲乇夭 貙 丕賱卮丕亘 丕賱匕賷 賷禺卮賷 丕賱賳爻賷丕賳 丕賱亘卮乇賷 貙 賵丕賱匕賷 鬲乇丕賴 賴丕夭賱 貙丕賱賳爻賷丕賳貙 丕賳賴 賲賳 賲爻賱賲丕鬲 丕賱丨賷丕丞
兀賵噩爻鬲爻 賮賯丿 丕丨丿賷 爻丕賯賷賴 賮賷 氐乇丕毓賴 賲毓 爻乇胤丕賳 丕賱毓馗丕賲 賱鬲鬲丨爻賳 丨丕賱鬲賴 賵賷賴夭賲賴 賳賵毓丕 賲丕 貙 賵亘賷賳賲丕 賷賴賷賲 賴賵 亘賴丕夭賱 丨亘丕 貙 鬲禺卮賷 賴賷 丕賳 鬲賯鬲乇亘 賲賳賴 丕賰孬乇 賵鬲賯毓 賮賷 丨亘賴 賱馗乇賵賮 賲乇囟賴丕 丨賷孬 丕賳賴丕 賮賷 丨丕賱丞 氐毓亘丞 賲賳 丕賱爻乇胤丕賳 亘毓賰爻賴 貙 賵賱賵賱丕 丿賵丕亍 賲毓噩夭丞 賲毓賷賳 賱丕賳鬲賯賱鬲 賱丨丕賱丞 丨乇噩丞.. 賵賴賷 賱丕 鬲乇賷丿 丕賳 鬲賰賵賳 爻亘亘丕 賮賷 噩乇丨賴 毓賳丿賲丕 賷賳鬲賴賷 賰賱 卮卅
賯丿 賷賰賵賳 賴匕丕 賰賱丕卮賷賴 兀禺乇 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賷 賵賱賰賳 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 賱賲 鬲鬲氐賮 亘丕賱賲賱賱 丕賱丕 賯賱賷賱丕 貙 賮丕賱丨丿孬 丕賱丕賴賲 賴賵 賰賷賮賷賴 鬲毓丕乇賮賴賲 賵鬲毓丕賷卮賴賲 .. 鬲毓丕賲賱賴賲 賲毓 丕賱兀氐丿賯丕亍 亘丕賱兀禺氐 丕賱賲乇囟賷 亘賳賮爻 丕賱賲乇囟 丕賱禺亘賷孬
兀賲丕 賲丕 噩毓賱 賯氐丞 丕賱丨亘 賯賵賷丞 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賷 貙 賴賷 丨亘賴賲 丕賱賲卮鬲乇賰 賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵丕丨丿丞... 亘丕賱胤亘
"An Imperial Affliction"
賮兀賵噩爻鬲爻 賷乇賷丿 貙 賲孬賱 賴丕夭賱 貙 賲毓乇賮丞 賳賴丕賷鬲賴丕 賵賷爻丕毓丿賴丕 賮賷 賲乇丕爻賱丕鬲賴丕 賱賱賲丐賱賮 丕賱匕賷 丕毓鬲夭賱 丕賱毓賲賱 亘毓丿 賰鬲丕亘賴 丕賱丕賵賱 賵丕賱丕禺賷乇 賲賳匕 10 爻賳賵丕鬲 貙 丕氐賷亘 亘丕賱鬲賵丨丿 賵睾丕丿乇 丕賱亘賱丕丿 丕賱賷 賴賵賱賳丿丕 賵賮卮賱鬲 賲丨丕賵賱丕鬲 賴丕夭賱 丕賱爻丕亘賯丞 賮賷 賲乇丕爻賱鬲賴 賱賲毓乇賮丞 賲丕匕丕 爻賷丨丿孬 賱亘賯賷丞 丕賱丕亘胤丕賱 賮賷 乇賵丕賷鬲賴丕 丕賱賲賮囟賱丞
賵鬲鬲賵丕賱賷 丕賱賲賮丕噩兀鬲 貙 賵賷賳噩丨丕 賮賷 丕賱爻賮乇 亘兀毓噩賵亘丞 賵賲賯丕亘賱賴 丕賱賲丐賱賮.. 賵賷丕賱賴丕 賲賳 賲賮丕噩兀丞 氐丕丿賲丞 賱賴賲丕 貙 賵賱兀賷 賯丕乇卅 賷鬲毓賱賯 亘丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 賷賯乇兀賴丕
賵鬲鬲賵丕賱賷 亘卮賰賱 丕賰亘乇 亘毓丿 丕賱乇丨賱丞 賲賮丕噩兀鬲 丕賱賯丿乇 賵賲丕鬲禺亘卅賴 丕賱賳噩賵賲 賱賱丕亘胤丕賱
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賱丕 兀賳賰乇 丕賳 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 賮賷 亘毓囟 丕賱丕丨賷丕賳 丕氐丕亘鬲賳賷 亘卮卅 賲賳 丕賱賲賱賱...賵賱賰賳 鬲鬲丕亘毓賴丕 賮賷 丕賰孬乇 丕賱丕賵賯丕鬲 丕毓噩亘賳賷 賵賰丕賳鬲 賵丕賯毓賷丞 噩丿丕 貙 賵亘毓囟賴丕 氐丿賲賳賷 亘丕賱丕禺氐 賲賯丕亘賱丞 卮禺氐賷丞 賲丐賱賮 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱禺賷丕賱賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲丨亘賴丕 賴丕夭賱 "亘賷鬲乇 賮丕賳 賴丕賵鬲賳".. 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲賯丕亘賱丞 丕賱賰丕乇孬賷丞 賵丕賱賲賱丕卅賲賴 賱卮禺氐賷鬲賴 賴賷 賮賷 乇兀賷賷 賲賳 兀賯賵賷 丕賱賲卮丕賴丿 亘丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
賵丕賱丕睾乇亘 丕賳 賳賮爻 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 "丕賱噩丕賮丞" 鬲賱賰 賴賷 賰丕賳鬲 丕賱爻亘亘 丕賱乇卅賷爻賷 賮賷 "丕賱鬲兀孬乇 賱丿乇噩丞 毓丿賲 丕賱鬲丨賰賲 賮賷 丕賱丿賲賵毓" 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賷 賱賲乇丞 賵丨賷丿丞 賲賳匕 亘丿丕賷丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賱兀禺乇賴丕 貙 賵匕賱賰 賮賷 馗賴賵乇賴 亘賲卮賴丿 兀禺乇 賯亘賷賱 賳賴丕賷鬲賴丕
賮丨鬲賷 賯亘賱 丕賱賳賴丕賷賴 亘丨賵丕賱賷 4 賮氐賵賱 馗賳賳鬲 丕賳賷 毓乇賮鬲 賰賱 卮卅 貙 賵鬲毓噩亘鬲 丕賳賷 賱賲 丕鬲兀孬乇 賱賱丿乇噩丞 丕賱鬲賷 賰鬲亘 毓賳賴丕 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賳丨丕亍 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賵賱賰賳 賯亘賱 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 卮毓乇鬲 亘賰賱 賲丕卮毓乇 亘賴 丕賱賰孬賷乇賷賳 賲賳 鬲兀孬乇 亘爻亘亘 匕賱賰 丕賱賲卮賴丿
賵賱賰賳 賷噩亘 丕賳 丕賯賵賱 丕賳 亘丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 乇睾賲 賰賱 丕賱兀賱丕賲 卮毓乇鬲 亘賰孬賷乇 噩丿丕 賲賳 丕賱乇丕丨丞 ... 乇丕丨丞 賲賲鬲夭噩丞 亘卮噩賳 睾乇賷亘 賵賱賰賳賴丕 賰丕賮賷賴 賱丕賳 鬲鬲丨賵賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 亘丕賱賳爻亘賴 賱賷 賲賳 乇賵丕賷丞 馗賳賳鬲賴丕 毓丕丿賷丞 丕賱賷 乇賵丕賷丞 噩賷丿丞 賮毓賱丕
丕賱丕 丕賳賷 賲丕夭賱鬲 丕乇賷 丕賳 賮賷 賲賳鬲氐賮 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 賮賷 賴賵賱賳丿丕 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱禺丕氐 亘丕賱噩賳爻 亘賷賳 賮鬲丕丞 亘賱睾鬲 毓丕賲賴丕 丕賱爻丕丿爻 毓卮乇 貙 賵賮鬲賷 丕賰亘乇 賲賳賴丕 亘賯賱賷賱
賴賵 丕賲乇 賲賯丨賲 賵賰丕賳 賷賲賰賳 丕賱丕爻鬲睾賳丕亍 毓賳賴 亘丕賷 賲卮賴丿 乇賵賲丕賳爻賷 毓丕胤賮賷 丕禺乇
賵賱賰賳 賷丨爻亘 賱賱賲丐賱賮 賮毓賱丕 丕爻鬲禺丿丕賲賴 賱丕爻賱賵亘 "賲賴匕亘" 賵賱賷爻 賮噩丕... 賵賱賰賳 賰賲丕 賯賱鬲 丕賱丕賲乇 賱賲 賷賰賳 賷爻鬲丨賯 賴匕丕 .. 賱賯丿 丕毓噩亘賳賷 噩丿丕 賲卮賴丿 丕賱賯亘賱丞 賮賷 賴賵賱賳丿丕...賵賱賰賳 賱賲 賷毓噩亘賳賷 賲丕亘毓丿賴丕
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鬲賯賷賷賲賷 賱賱乇賵丕賷丞 賰丕丿 丕賳 賷賰賵賳 3 賳噩賵賲 貙 亘毓丿 賰賱 賴匕丕 賳毓賲 貙 賱賰賳賴 夭丕丿 亘爻亘亘 丕爻鬲賲鬲丕毓賷 亘丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 賲賳 亘丿丕賷鬲賴丕 亘爻亘亘 鬲禺賷賱賷 賱丕孬賳丕賳 賮賷 賳賮爻 丕賱毓賲乇 賮賷 丿賵乇 丕賱丕亘胤丕賱 貙 賵賱賰賳 賮賷 毓氐乇 賲禺鬲賱賮 ....丕賱丨賯亘丞 丕賱夭賲賳賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 毓卮鬲賴丕 貙 賳賴丕賷丞 丕賱鬲爻毓賷賳丕鬲
***Felicity and Ben ..Keri Russell and Scot Speedman***
賵亘丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 丕賳 賴丕夭賱 丕賰孬乇 氐賱丕亘丞 賵賱賴丕 胤丕亘毓 丕賱爻禺乇賷丞 丕賱賱丕匕毓丞 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 賰賷乇賷 乇丕爻賷賱 賵賱賰賳 賳噩丨 丕賱丕賲乇 賵鬲賮丕毓賱鬲 賲毓 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 噩丿丕 亘爻亘亘賴賲丕
賵禺丕氐賴 丕賳賴丕 亘賴丕 賲賳 賳丕鬲丕賱賷 亘賵乇鬲賲丕賳 賮賷 丨賯亘賴 "賮丕賳丿賷鬲丕" 賰賲丕 鬲賲 鬲卮亘賷賴 賴丕夭賱 賮賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
賵賱賰賳 賴丕夭賱 丕賱氐賱亘丞 賮毓賱丕 賴賷 賲賳 丕賴賲 丕爻亘丕亘 賳噩丕丨 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱卮丿賷丿 亘賷賳 丕賱卮亘丕亘
丕毓噩亘賳賷 噩丿丕 爻丐丕賱 賯乇丕亍鬲賴 賮賷 氐賮丨丞 丕丨丿 丕賱丕氐丿賯丕亍 賮賷 丕賱賮賷爻 亘賵賰 貙 賲賳 丕賱噩賷賱 丕賱噩丿賷丿-賴乇賲賳丕 丕丨賳丕 亘賯賷 賲賵丕賱賷丿 丕賱孬賲丕賳賷賳丕鬲- 賵丕毓噩亘賳賷 噩丿丕 乇丿賴 丕賱爻丕禺乇 毓賱賷 賰賲賷丞 丕賱賰賱丕卮賷賴丕鬲 丕賱鬲丕賮賴丞 丕賱賲賳鬲卮乇丞 亘賷賳 噩賷賱賴賲...丕賵 丕賱鬲賷 賷鬲賲爻賰 亘賴丕 丕賱噩賷賱 丕賱爻丕亘賯 賱賴賲
丕賱爻丐丕賱 賴賵
What's cool nowadays?
丕賱廿賱丨丕丿貙 丕賱賱丕兀丿乇賷丞貙 鬲賰賵賷賳 丕賱亘丕賳丿丕鬲貙 鬲氐賵賷乇 丕賱兀賮賱丕賲貙 丕賱乇爻賲貙 賰賱賲丞 (---)貙 丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞 丕賱賵毓馗賷丞 丕賱賲亘丕卮乇丞貙 丕賱賯氐氐 丕賱乇丿賷卅丞貙 丕賱賳丿賵丕鬲 丕賱孬賯丕賮賷丞 丕賱賲賲賱賴貙 賲毓丕乇囟 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賵丨賮賱丕鬲 丕賱鬲賵賯賷毓 丕賱賲氐丕丨亘丞貙 賲丕噩丿丞 丕賱乇賵賲賷貙 丕賱爻賷丕爻丞貙 丕賱卮鬲賷賲丞 賮賷 丕賱爻賷丕爻丞貙 丕賱賮賷夭賷丕亍 丕賱賲爻賱賵賯丞貙 丕賱爻丕乇賰丕夭賲 丕賱乇丿賷亍貙 丕賱鬲馗丕賴乇 亘丕賳毓丿丕賲 丕賱賯丿乇丞 毓賱賶 丕賱丨亘貙 丕賱鬲賲爻賰 亘丕賱賲賮丕賴賷賲 丕賱乇噩毓賷丞 丕賱兀氐賷賱丞貙 丕賱丕賳卮睾丕賱貙 丕賱鬲馗丕賴乇 亘丕賱丕賳卮睾丕賱貙 , 乇孬丕亍 丕賱賳賮爻.. 賵丕賱丕賴賲 , 丕賱毓賲賯
爻鬲噩丿 賴賳丕 爻亘亘 賳噩丕丨 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賳賴丕 丕禺匕鬲 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 "丕賱賰賵賵賱 賳丕賵丕丿丕賷夭"....賱丕兀丿乇賷賴 貙 賱丕 賷賵噩丿 賵噩賵丿 丨賯賷賯賷 賮賷 丨賰賷 亘胤賱賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 賱賱賴 貙 亘賱 賵乇亘賲丕 亘毓囟 丕賱爻禺乇賷丞 賲賳 丕賱鬲丿賷賳 兀賵 丕賱賯丿乇 賵乇賮囟 丕賳
The Fault is not in Our Stars..
賯丿 賷丨爻亘 賱賴 兀賳賴 賴賳丕 丕賳賴 賱賷爻 賮噩丕 貙 賵賱賰賳賴 賱賱丕爻賮 賲賵噩賵丿..賰賲丕 賴賵 賲賵噩賵丿 賮賷 賰孬賷乇 賲賳 噩賷賱 丕賱毓氐乇 丕賱丨丕賱賷
丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 亘毓賷丿丞 鬲賲丕賲丕 毓賳 "丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞 丕賱賵毓馗賷丞 丕賱賲亘丕卮乇丞" 亘賱 賵鬲賳賯丿賴丕 賵賴匕丕 丕賲乇 兀鬲賮賯 賲毓賴 毓丕賲丕 貙 賮賴匕丕 丕賱賳賵毓 賲賳 丕賱賵毓馗 丕賱賲亘丕卮乇 丿丕卅賲丕 賲丕 鬲丐丿賷 丕賱賷 賳鬲丕卅噩 毓賰爻賷丞 賵賳賮賵乇 賲賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賳賮爻賴.. 賵賱匕賱賰 丕毓噩亘賳賷 丕賳 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賲賳胤賯賷丞 丕賱賷 丨丿 賰亘賷乇 貙 賵丕爻鬲丨爻賳鬲賴丕 賵丕賳 賰賳鬲 丕鬲賲賳賷 丕賳 賱丕 鬲馗賱 毓賱賷 丕賱"賱丕兀丿乇賷丞" 丕賵 鬲禺賮賮賴丕 卮賷卅丕 賲丕
丕賱爻丕乇賰丕夭賲 丕賵 丕賱爻禺乇賷丞 賴賳丕 賱賲 鬲賰賳 乇丿賷卅丞.. 亘丕賱毓賰爻 丕毓噩亘賳賷 噩丿丕 賮賷 賰孬賷乇 噩丿丕 賲賳 丕賱丕丨賷丕賳 丕賱丨賵丕乇 丕賱爻丕禺乇 丕賱匕賷 亘乇毓 賮賷 賰鬲丕亘鬲賴 噩賵賳 噩乇賷賳 賵丕賱匕賷 賲賳丨賳賷 廿亘鬲爻丕賲丞 丨賯賷賯賷丞 賲氐丨賵亘丞 亘卮卅 賲賳 丕賱卮噩賳
鈥淜ids!鈥� Julie shouted vaguely.
鈥淚 can only hope,鈥� Julie said, turning back to Gus, 鈥渢hey grow into the kind of thoughtful, intelligent young men you鈥檝e become.鈥�
I resisted the urge to audibly gag. 鈥淗e鈥檚 not that smart,鈥� I said to Julie.
鈥淪he鈥檚 right. It鈥檚 just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.鈥�
鈥淩ight, it鈥檚 primarily his hotness,鈥� I said.
鈥淚t can be sort of blinding,鈥� he said.
鈥淚t actually did blind our friend Isaac,鈥� I said.
鈥淭errible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?鈥�
鈥淵ou cannot.鈥�
鈥淚t is my burden, this beautiful face.鈥�
鈥淣ot to mention your body.鈥�
鈥淪eriously, don鈥檛 even get me started on my hot bod. You don鈥檛 want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace鈥檚 breath away,鈥� he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.
賵賮賷 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞...丕賱毓賲賯
丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賱丕 鬲丨丕賵賱 兀丿毓丕亍 毓賲賯 賱賷爻 亘賴丕 賰賲丕 賷賮毓賱 賱賱丕爻賮 丕睾賱亘 丕賱卮亘丕亘 賮賷 乇賵丕賷鬲賴賲 爻賵丕亍 亘賲氐乇 丕賵 亘丕賱毓丕賱賲.. 亘丕賱毓賰爻 貙 丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 亘賴丕 毓賲賯 丨賯賷賯賷 賳賵毓丕 賲丕
毓賲賯 丕賱丕賱賲 貙 丿賵賳 乇爻賲 賱賱賰賱賲丕鬲 丕賵 丕賱丕賴鬲賲丕賲 亘夭禺乇賮賴 丕賱噩賲賱 賱鬲氐亘丨
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賵賱賰賳賷 賱丕 丕賳賰乇 丕賳 賴賳丕賰 賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賰賱賲丕鬲 丕賱丕賳噩賱賷夭賷丞 賰丕賳鬲 賱睾賵賷丕 氐毓亘賴 亘丕賱賳爻亘賴 賱賷 貙 亘丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 丕賳賴丕 鬲兀鬲賷 賮鬲丕賴 賮賷 丕賱爻丕丿爻丞 毓卮乇 賵毓丕丿丞 賱丕 丕噩丿 鬲賱賰 丕賱氐毓賵亘丞 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱賮卅丞 賲賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲
賵賯丿 丕卮丕乇 噩丕爻 氐丿賷賯 賴丕夭賱 毓賱賷 丕爻鬲禺丿丕賲賴丕 賱亘毓囟 丕賱賰賱賲丕鬲 丕賱氐毓亘丞 貙 賴賳丕 卮毓乇鬲 丕賳賴 賱賷爻 禺胤卅賷 賰賱賷丕 兀賳 賵噩丿鬲 氐毓賵亘丞 賮賷 鬲乇噩賲丞 亘毓囟 丕賱賰賱賲丕鬲
I was glad that Gus mentioned Hazel's "Super sophisticated" use of adjectives at a point.. God I hate when I read a novel that Google translate dot com won't translate some of the words I can't get :(
賵賲毓 匕賱賰 賴賳丕賰 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱噩賲賱 氐丕乇鬲 鬲鬲丿丕賵賱 賰噩賲賱 賱丕 鬲賳爻賷
賱丕 丕賳賰乇 丕賳賷 毓丕賳賷鬲 賱賱亘丨孬 毓賳 氐賵乇丞 賱賱乇賷賮賷賵 亘賴丕 噩賲賱 賱賲 賷鬲賲 賵囟毓賴丕 賮賷 乇賷賮賷賵 賲賳 賯亘賱 貙 賵賰賳鬲 毓賱賷 賵卮賰 賰鬲丕亘賴 噩賲賱鬲賷 丕賱賲賮囟賱丞 丕賱鬲賷 匕賰乇鬲賴丕 賮賷 丕賱亘丿丕賷賴 丨賵賱 丕賱丕賮賰丕乇 賵丕賱賳噩賵賲 賱丕賰鬲卮賮 丕賳賴丕 丕賷囟丕 賲賳 丕賴賲 丕賱噩賲賱 丕賱鬲賷 匕賰乇鬲 賮賷 噩賲賷毓 丕賱乇賷賮賷賵賴丕鬲 鬲賯乇賷亘丕
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***The Fault in Our Stars***
for me it's not a great story, But It's very lovable ,emotional somehow that I can't never say it isn't a great story...
I was afraid after 80% of the story,and not feeling emotional enough or teary eyes like EVERYONE's experience with the book , that I've grew a "Hairy Heart" like this story in J.K.Rowling's Harry Potter's Spin off:
But I have to say I liked the story more cause of Peter and his Novel "An Imperial Affliction" plot, and that's the main reason of Hazel and Augustus get together.
"and the fact I used "Felicity"'s stars in the main roles "I was just finished that book, you can know about the show at my review for that book"
But by the end -and again cause of Peter Van Houten's reappearance- I got "teary eyes" and uncontrollable one .. the wrapping of this plot hit me hard in heart..
Then the smooth ending "Being in 14th July -MY BIRTHDAY :)" with the lovely mother -who I really felt more emotions for her than expected too, I pictured her like Desperate Housewives' Bree Van De Kamp-
That's what make it goes from 3 stars to 4
So, yes I must read again for John Green.. And I'll never forget the days with Hazel and Gus..they'll be in my memory..
Always...
okay?
Mohammed Arabey
from 29th March 2014
to 3rd April 2014
PS: What Novels,stories that get me Uncontrollable teary eyes :
1- A Short story by "Issa'ad Younes" in EL Shabab magazine "will write it soon in a review" - mid 90s
2-The Death of Scrooge Mcduck's parents.. "Will review that too soon" - mid 90s
3-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , by the end ,unexpected scene "will review soon too" - 2012
4-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows "Snape of course , always"
5-Peter Van Houten telling an apology...The Fault in Our Stars 2014 :)
I may add more when I'd remember ,but those always stick in my mind
May 4, 2014
I can be honest, right? After all, it was I who spent time reading this book.
I guess it has something to do with the fact that so many friends and relatives raved about this book being sad and great prior to my reading. For example, an 8-year old niece of my wife said that she cried while reading the book because it is about teenagers with cancer. Then of course most of my GR friends, foreigners and locals alike, rated this book with either 4 or 5 stars.
So, when I started reading this book, I thought I already clammed up. Maybe I was just trying to be different or I would like to show my wife's 8-y/o niece that the book is YA and I am too old (mature) compared to her and have outgrown books like this and definitely would not cry over some silly stories about lovers with cancer.
My Dad died of brain cancer in 1997 so definitely I have a big compassion for people suffering from any kind of cancer. However, what is John Green's purpose of using cancer has a major element in this book's romance? Obviously, it is to manipulate people's emotion. It is to gain sympathy because his female readers would like to cry buckets of tears especially if the guy is as good-looking as Augustus the apple of the eyes of our heroine who is also cancer-stricken, Hazel. I mean cancer, like death, is something that we normally don't want to talk about and if we need to talk about it, we usually have a purpose. Sadly, in my opinion, John Green has no particular purpose but for commercial reason: to generate sympathy that means more readers, more sales, more money to bring to the bank.
There is nothing new in this book. Hazel's I want to leave a mark prior to dying is everybody's wish really. Augustus' I am not my cancer is too heroic. We all know that it is not true, we all got our big frustrations or lost in lives. We all have been sick at some point in our lives and we go through a period of denial and even if we say we accepted everything, we always keep on hoping that the sickness or the problem would disappear that's why we continuously pray to God. I mean the acceptance is there and we are at peace with ourselves but still call God to interfere and take the sickness away.
I just did not feel anything reading this book except the feeling of being manipulated. It's too pretentious and gimmicky. I know John Green is laughing his way to the bank especially because some movie people took advantage of this book's popularity so this even has a big screen adaptation. My goodness.
I guess it has something to do with the fact that so many friends and relatives raved about this book being sad and great prior to my reading. For example, an 8-year old niece of my wife said that she cried while reading the book because it is about teenagers with cancer. Then of course most of my GR friends, foreigners and locals alike, rated this book with either 4 or 5 stars.
So, when I started reading this book, I thought I already clammed up. Maybe I was just trying to be different or I would like to show my wife's 8-y/o niece that the book is YA and I am too old (mature) compared to her and have outgrown books like this and definitely would not cry over some silly stories about lovers with cancer.
My Dad died of brain cancer in 1997 so definitely I have a big compassion for people suffering from any kind of cancer. However, what is John Green's purpose of using cancer has a major element in this book's romance? Obviously, it is to manipulate people's emotion. It is to gain sympathy because his female readers would like to cry buckets of tears especially if the guy is as good-looking as Augustus the apple of the eyes of our heroine who is also cancer-stricken, Hazel. I mean cancer, like death, is something that we normally don't want to talk about and if we need to talk about it, we usually have a purpose. Sadly, in my opinion, John Green has no particular purpose but for commercial reason: to generate sympathy that means more readers, more sales, more money to bring to the bank.
There is nothing new in this book. Hazel's I want to leave a mark prior to dying is everybody's wish really. Augustus' I am not my cancer is too heroic. We all know that it is not true, we all got our big frustrations or lost in lives. We all have been sick at some point in our lives and we go through a period of denial and even if we say we accepted everything, we always keep on hoping that the sickness or the problem would disappear that's why we continuously pray to God. I mean the acceptance is there and we are at peace with ourselves but still call God to interfere and take the sickness away.
I just did not feel anything reading this book except the feeling of being manipulated. It's too pretentious and gimmicky. I know John Green is laughing his way to the bank especially because some movie people took advantage of this book's popularity so this even has a big screen adaptation. My goodness.
October 3, 2013
Let me start with how I feel
My heart hurts. It bleeds, it cries. This book made me feel. How to articulate and not post a bunch of nonsensical babble.
Did I enjoy reading this book?
No.
Did this book make an everlasting impression on me, in a good way?
Yes.
Would I read it again?
Well, yes. I'm a masochist.
Who should read this book?
Everyone.
What did this book teach me?
That life isn't fair, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't live it to the best of you ability. And a whole lot more, but I think you get my meaning.
Refer to the above quote
Augustus, I love you.
Yes, they are teenagers and yes this is fiction. But dear God, if I could find just a third of their kind of love, well, I think I'd be made for life.
What's this book about, you ask?
It's about The Fault In Our Stars
Okay.
You should like read it, it will change your life!
There's this really hot guy, with a really big heart.
Metaphorically speaking off course.
And then there's this really sick girl, Hazel Grace. She lives by a book called, An Imperial Affliction by Peter Van Houten.
By the way I think she is one of the best heroines ever written.
This quote is the most eloquently descriptive I have ever come across. It made me cry.
I'm crying right now.
Okay?
September 10, 2018
i think most people will remember the first book that made them cry.
TFIOS was mine.
this was a story of love, and loss, of grief, and hope, and all the infinities in between. words are incapable of expressing how tender and open my heart felt after reading this. it taught me what it meant to truly empathise with others. it taught me what it means to live. it taught me how to find the positive in the most hopeless of situations. and because of that, i know am a better person after closing this book than i was when i first opened it.
and to john green, i cannot tell you how thankful i am for this little infinity. you gave me forever within the numbered pages, and im grateful.
鈫� 5 stars
TFIOS was mine.
this was a story of love, and loss, of grief, and hope, and all the infinities in between. words are incapable of expressing how tender and open my heart felt after reading this. it taught me what it meant to truly empathise with others. it taught me what it means to live. it taught me how to find the positive in the most hopeless of situations. and because of that, i know am a better person after closing this book than i was when i first opened it.
and to john green, i cannot tell you how thankful i am for this little infinity. you gave me forever within the numbered pages, and im grateful.
鈫� 5 stars
December 29, 2014
But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.鈥�
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Some books will make you laugh so hard your stomach will hurt.
Some books will make you so mad that you鈥檇 want to throw the book out the window or burn it in fury.
Some books will leave you asking for more because it ended with a cliffhanger.
Some books will leave you questioning why it ended the way it did.
Some books will leave a mark on you not only because it made you cried buckets of tears or made you laugh until you couldn鈥檛 breathe but because you felt something as you were reading it and that feeling would never leave you forever.
The Fault in Our Stars left that kind of mark in me.
It made me cry.
It made me laugh occasionally.
It made my heart ache.
It made me giggly all over when Gus made his moves on Hazel.
It made me feel all sort of things and for a book to have that effect on someone it must be really special.
The Fault in Our Stars is one of the best books I鈥檝e ever read.
EVER!
Hazel has cancer.
She already anticipated Death would soon be knocking on her door.
She doesn鈥檛 have a lot of friends because she keeps to herself.
Why?
She didn鈥檛 want anyone else to be burdened by her death in case it comes.
One day at support group he met Augustus (Gus) Waters.
They just sort of clicked.
Gus liked her but she didn鈥檛 want to take their relationship to a higher level because she was afraid that she鈥檇 cause him pain if she dies.
Hazel think Gus was healthier than she is and that he鈥檒l have more time on earth than she does and that it would be unfair if she lets him in.
But no matter how hard she tries to keep her distance from Gus, she just couldn鈥檛.
Everything felt right.
Fate however has different plans for them.
There are so many things I want to say about this book but I鈥檓 so afraid I might not get them all right.
John Green, you have broken my heart into tiny little pieces.
This book made my heart ache and my eyes burn with tears.
There was just so much emotion in the pages of this book that it was so hard not to feel them.
Hazel was an inspiration.
I have never been that sick but I think if I was I wouldn鈥檛 be as composed and as strong as she was.
Despite her constant need to have an oxygen tank near her she still goes about and does things normally.
She doesn鈥檛 go out that much with friends though because she wanted to spare them the pain if ever she dies.
And while Hazel was sometimes (most of the time) pessimistic, Gus was the exact opposite.
He was Hazel鈥檚 ray of sunshine.
He has this sort of halo of positivity that makes the people feel good including Hazel.
While Hazel was my inspiration, Gus was my favorite.
I guess this book would not have been that much of a success without Gus.
He was smart (though he often doesn鈥檛 think so) and funny and sweet and kind and loving.
(Damn! Where are all the Gus鈥檚 hiding? I鈥檇 like to get myself one! LOL.)
I finished this book last night after coming home from work.
On the last 3 or 4 chapters my eyes were flooded with tears that I can鈥檛 stop.
My mom actually got worried and asked me if I was okay and told her the reason I was crying was because of this book.
The Fault in Our Stars was amazing.
I would like to applaud Mr. Green for making such a wonderful and emotionally gripping novel that mirrors the lives of kids who has cancer.
Hazel, Gus, Isaac and all of the other kids in the memorial maybe fictional characters but what they were experiencing maybe happening to someone else right now.
The characters in this book seemed so real like you and me.
Hazel and Gus seemed too mature for their age.
Was it the cancer? Possibly but it鈥檚 actually something so minor that I don鈥檛 care if they think too maturely. I can deal with that.
One thing I noticed though was how it reminded me a little (really just a little) of one of my favorite books by Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember.
Gus reminded me of Jaime.
Gus changed something in Hazel just like Jaime did to Langdon.
Jaime and Gus left their mark.
They may have passed but they will never be forgotten.
Anyhow, I totally love this book.
I highly recommend it.
No graphic scenes here so in my opinion it鈥檚 totally safe for the teenage kids to read. :)
I am so in love with you Mr. Green.
Too bad you鈥檙e married and with kids. (Just kidding!)
But my friends and I will be reading Looking for Alaska next hopefully they would be as great as this one.
I give this perfect 5 stars!
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Some books will make you laugh so hard your stomach will hurt.
Some books will make you so mad that you鈥檇 want to throw the book out the window or burn it in fury.
Some books will leave you asking for more because it ended with a cliffhanger.
Some books will leave you questioning why it ended the way it did.
Some books will leave a mark on you not only because it made you cried buckets of tears or made you laugh until you couldn鈥檛 breathe but because you felt something as you were reading it and that feeling would never leave you forever.
The Fault in Our Stars left that kind of mark in me.
It made me cry.
It made me laugh occasionally.
It made my heart ache.
It made me giggly all over when Gus made his moves on Hazel.
It made me feel all sort of things and for a book to have that effect on someone it must be really special.
The Fault in Our Stars is one of the best books I鈥檝e ever read.
EVER!
Hazel has cancer.
She already anticipated Death would soon be knocking on her door.
She doesn鈥檛 have a lot of friends because she keeps to herself.
Why?
She didn鈥檛 want anyone else to be burdened by her death in case it comes.
One day at support group he met Augustus (Gus) Waters.
They just sort of clicked.
Gus liked her but she didn鈥檛 want to take their relationship to a higher level because she was afraid that she鈥檇 cause him pain if she dies.
Hazel think Gus was healthier than she is and that he鈥檒l have more time on earth than she does and that it would be unfair if she lets him in.
But no matter how hard she tries to keep her distance from Gus, she just couldn鈥檛.
Everything felt right.
Fate however has different plans for them.
There are so many things I want to say about this book but I鈥檓 so afraid I might not get them all right.
John Green, you have broken my heart into tiny little pieces.
This book made my heart ache and my eyes burn with tears.
There was just so much emotion in the pages of this book that it was so hard not to feel them.
Hazel was an inspiration.
I have never been that sick but I think if I was I wouldn鈥檛 be as composed and as strong as she was.
Despite her constant need to have an oxygen tank near her she still goes about and does things normally.
She doesn鈥檛 go out that much with friends though because she wanted to spare them the pain if ever she dies.
And while Hazel was sometimes (most of the time) pessimistic, Gus was the exact opposite.
He was Hazel鈥檚 ray of sunshine.
He has this sort of halo of positivity that makes the people feel good including Hazel.
While Hazel was my inspiration, Gus was my favorite.
I guess this book would not have been that much of a success without Gus.
He was smart (though he often doesn鈥檛 think so) and funny and sweet and kind and loving.
(Damn! Where are all the Gus鈥檚 hiding? I鈥檇 like to get myself one! LOL.)
I finished this book last night after coming home from work.
On the last 3 or 4 chapters my eyes were flooded with tears that I can鈥檛 stop.
My mom actually got worried and asked me if I was okay and told her the reason I was crying was because of this book.
The Fault in Our Stars was amazing.
I would like to applaud Mr. Green for making such a wonderful and emotionally gripping novel that mirrors the lives of kids who has cancer.
Hazel, Gus, Isaac and all of the other kids in the memorial maybe fictional characters but what they were experiencing maybe happening to someone else right now.
The characters in this book seemed so real like you and me.
Hazel and Gus seemed too mature for their age.
Was it the cancer? Possibly but it鈥檚 actually something so minor that I don鈥檛 care if they think too maturely. I can deal with that.
One thing I noticed though was how it reminded me a little (really just a little) of one of my favorite books by Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember.
Gus reminded me of Jaime.
Gus changed something in Hazel just like Jaime did to Langdon.
Jaime and Gus left their mark.
They may have passed but they will never be forgotten.
Anyhow, I totally love this book.
I highly recommend it.
No graphic scenes here so in my opinion it鈥檚 totally safe for the teenage kids to read. :)
I am so in love with you Mr. Green.
Too bad you鈥檙e married and with kids. (Just kidding!)
But my friends and I will be reading Looking for Alaska next hopefully they would be as great as this one.
I give this perfect 5 stars!
July 2, 2018
you have a choice in this world, i believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.
john green, like his characters, always makes the funny choice. and readers, like "women" are really just looking for a sense of humor. and the sense of humor goes a long way towards pardoning other sins. because come on, john green - your characters are so unlikely. ordinarily, i would squirm at such clever,verbose,insightful, literary-reference-dropping teenagers. but they are so funny and charming, always. your humor is what saves you from my criticism.
not really a spoiler, but best be on the safe side. (and i can't believe i had to use capital letters there. felt...unnatural) but the point of that is - ah, to have been able, at seventeen, to take the emotional out of the equation and view the situation so critically. for me, anyway - it wouldn't have happened. i would have been overwhelmed with gratitude and any more intellectual approach to the situation would have been inconceivable.
but who cares - i don't even know why i went on that boring tangent. because john green (when i say his name, you should see little hearts coming out from my ears - 鈾ohn green鈾�) has enough skills to make these potentially unbelievable characters consistently entertaining and to do the unthinkable of making a YA cancer book very very funny.
when i was an emotion-blinded teen, reading all those lurlene mcdaniels books, who knew that someday, there would be funny Ya-tragedy books?
this is not funny:
but john green is. and i'm sure if i read now, it would feel manipulative and cloying. (but i would probably still love it with all my nostalgia) this book is not at all manipulative and never cloying. it's all wisecracking in the valley of the shadow of death, in a genuinely funny, not snarky, way. okay, occasionally snarky. they are teens, after all.
(jesus, i may have forgotten to mention that this book is funny. did i? mention it?)
but it is also about the dangers of hero-worship and the desire to leave something in the world that is yours after you go, and anne frank (yes. anne freaking frank)
鈾ohn green鈾� is just a skillful and sophisticated YA author, who has really raised the bar for realistic YA everywhere. (baffling an 85-year-old co-worker of mine who wanted to write to our company to have this reclassified as adult fiction because he read it, not knowing anything about it, and figured it was a mistake. "no, he's a teen novelist." "but the new york times reviewed it as an adult novel." "incorrect. it says "teen" on the dust jacket. printz award. you just read a YA book, dude! hhahaahahahaa! and you liked it!! score for YA!!" (this last sentence did not actually happen, but the rest of it did))
great isaac and augustus relationship - he does boy-friends so well. great parents for hazel. great job as a female narrator. (and a definite departure from the margo/alaska girl this time.) great great great. (also, funny)
so - four stars. because after serious reflection, i still think paper towns is better, and needs to bask in its five-stars-from-karen-dom all alone. also - this book did not make me cry, goddamn it. i thought it would be an easy cry. but no. damn these eyes.
john green, like his characters, always makes the funny choice. and readers, like "women" are really just looking for a sense of humor. and the sense of humor goes a long way towards pardoning other sins. because come on, john green - your characters are so unlikely. ordinarily, i would squirm at such clever,verbose,insightful, literary-reference-dropping teenagers. but they are so funny and charming, always. your humor is what saves you from my criticism.
not really a spoiler, but best be on the safe side. (and i can't believe i had to use capital letters there. felt...unnatural) but the point of that is - ah, to have been able, at seventeen, to take the emotional out of the equation and view the situation so critically. for me, anyway - it wouldn't have happened. i would have been overwhelmed with gratitude and any more intellectual approach to the situation would have been inconceivable.
but who cares - i don't even know why i went on that boring tangent. because john green (when i say his name, you should see little hearts coming out from my ears - 鈾ohn green鈾�) has enough skills to make these potentially unbelievable characters consistently entertaining and to do the unthinkable of making a YA cancer book very very funny.
when i was an emotion-blinded teen, reading all those lurlene mcdaniels books, who knew that someday, there would be funny Ya-tragedy books?
this is not funny:
but john green is. and i'm sure if i read now, it would feel manipulative and cloying. (but i would probably still love it with all my nostalgia) this book is not at all manipulative and never cloying. it's all wisecracking in the valley of the shadow of death, in a genuinely funny, not snarky, way. okay, occasionally snarky. they are teens, after all.
(jesus, i may have forgotten to mention that this book is funny. did i? mention it?)
but it is also about the dangers of hero-worship and the desire to leave something in the world that is yours after you go, and anne frank (yes. anne freaking frank)
鈾ohn green鈾� is just a skillful and sophisticated YA author, who has really raised the bar for realistic YA everywhere. (baffling an 85-year-old co-worker of mine who wanted to write to our company to have this reclassified as adult fiction because he read it, not knowing anything about it, and figured it was a mistake. "no, he's a teen novelist." "but the new york times reviewed it as an adult novel." "incorrect. it says "teen" on the dust jacket. printz award. you just read a YA book, dude! hhahaahahahaa! and you liked it!! score for YA!!" (this last sentence did not actually happen, but the rest of it did))
great isaac and augustus relationship - he does boy-friends so well. great parents for hazel. great job as a female narrator. (and a definite departure from the margo/alaska girl this time.) great great great. (also, funny)
so - four stars. because after serious reflection, i still think paper towns is better, and needs to bask in its five-stars-from-karen-dom all alone. also - this book did not make me cry, goddamn it. i thought it would be an easy cry. but no. damn these eyes.
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May 21, 2014What can I say about this amazing book that has not already been said a million times? It's real, heart-wrenching and so, so well written. I'm a fan of alll of John's books but this one is a masterpiece. I'm not even exaggerating.
August 10, 2018
The Fault in Our Stars is a clever little book because it normalises a tragic piece of life that is surprisingly underrepresented in fiction. It鈥檚 also funny, wise and heart-warming in a sad sort of way.
I鈥檓 not going to say too much about this one, only that it really is worth reading regardless of your age. It captures a piece of humanity that we all need to hear.
Word of warning though, it might make you cry.
I鈥檓 not going to say too much about this one, only that it really is worth reading regardless of your age. It captures a piece of humanity that we all need to hear.
Word of warning though, it might make you cry.
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