The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
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Re: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
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When I first picked up the book, I thought, oh another cancer love book, how dull. However, after 4 hours of continuous reading, when I finally finished I broke down and cried. My eyes were red and puffy at the end, but the book was sensational. It was marvelous, wonderful and phenomenal.
Thank you John Green for giving me forever in the 313 pages. I will forever cherish this TFIOS infinity.
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1. Do NOT listen to the audio version. I like audiobooks for when I am driving or running, but this was a poor choice. The reader sounded too old to be a convincing Hazel and I think this exacerbated my second complaint. I believe John Green narrated a version and I cannot speak to that one.
2. While I mostly liked the characters and their relationships there were some problems with believability. I felt this was about Looking for Alaska, as well. John Green often writes as an adult writing teenagers he thinks it would be cool to be, but not realistically. They have such self-conscious wit and coolness that are practically a necessity in young adult fic but which need to be seriously tempered with realism in my opinion. But, as I indicated in #1, I think this was seriously exaggerated by the reader and would be less of a problem when reading the hard copy.
Two particular merits of the story are the relationship between Hazel and her parents (very touching and totally believable) and the fact that I had plenty of predictions about what would happen, none of which came true. That is to say, Green successfully surprised me several times.
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It was amazing. I cried when Issac did his eulogy at the pre funeral And I cried basically the rest of the book. The way John Green writes is incredibly relatable. I was so invested in the Augustus and Hazel. The way Augustus lives life so normally was, for lack of a better phrase, incredilbly strong. He is -was- an inspiration.
I will probably read all of John Green's book. So impressed.
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Upon picking up the book to read for the first time, I didn't put it down until I'd finished. It's not often that I do that, but John Green has the power to grip an individual to a book to the very powerful end. It was a fantastic read and I felt so close to the characters and so ripped apart by the plot line. I've never recommended a book to others so frequently. As well as being so interesting, it has lessons to be learnt within it which are not hard to find.
The strong relationship between the protagonist and her love is inspiring and heartfelt, only someone who knows the real power of emotion can create such a beautiful love.
*SPOILER*
I was absolutely distraught that the book within the book 'An Imperial Affliction' was not a real book!
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