The Fault in Our Stars

paperback; hardcover, 318 pages

Published Jan. 10, 2012 by Dutton Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-242417-9
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OCLC Number:
738336589

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4 stars (13 reviews)

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. 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.

Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning-author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.

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I now understand the hype surrounding this book

5 stars

I am gonna be a man and admit that this book hit me at a deeper level. I was invested in the characters, laughing and crying along with them. I should have given this book a chance when I first heard of it. I would recommend you pick this one up and read it if you haven't yet, if you are anything like me you wont regret it.

A reverse Romeo and Juliet that asks the biggest questions, and proposes some pretty good answers

5 stars

@johngreen@mastodon.social's The Fault in our Stars is the story of a 16 year old girl, Hazel, riddled with terminal cancer. The novel opens with her multiple awful treatments, dependency on an oxygen tank she must take everywhere and use even while sleeping, her depression, sarcasm, loneliness.

She meets a boy at a support group, Augustus, who's lost a leg to cancer but is now cancer free. Amid shared irony, and angst, they fall slowly, then suddenly, in love, and depart on an adventure to track down the mysterious author of her favourite novel.

Any book about terminally ill children is sure to be unbearably sad, but Green's writing is so compelling that this novel will surely wring a tear from even the hardest hearted eye. (Green explicitly wants to reject the tropes of the cancer-kid genre. I'm not widely read enough to judge whether he succeeds.)

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3 stars

although i am dearly in love with the concept of john green, I may be getting sick of him in actuality.

this story was sad, so sad.
I started this novel as an audiobook but had to stop about 2/3rds through and wait for the real-pages book, even though the wait list at the library was - like - 50 people long.
the content (and the whole point of the book) is emotional and you simply cannot have a full reaction/response when the content/words keep coming at you.
no. a reader needs to take a pause where the heart demands it, a gasp, a swipe of the eyes, a deep sigh and then another moment to blow your nose...

so yes, a sad book indeed
at times, a good sad, but many other times seemed to be a pulling-at-you, manipulate-you, force-you sad. I didn't like that. it felt cheap and …