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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
emotional
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Hazel is dying. You know this from the beginning, in fact she goes to a support group for this very reason. That is where she meets Augustus- cute and funny, he is everything she tries to push away. He is in remission and she does not want to break his heart. This is such a hard book to review because I feel like so many people have written their views and it it hard to have an original opinion. This is also why I waited so long to post my review. I felt that the book was written with many layers and tugs on your heart strings. Just be prepared to cry because John Green has a powerful way of conveying emotion. It really stumps me when a guy seems to know what is going on in the brain of a teenage girl.
These are smart teens- Hazel has her GED and is taking classes at her local community college and Augustus can quote books like no one else. Some seem to have a problem with this fact. I've heard in other reviews that they do not talk how teens really talk. Personally I think that this is how teenagers hear themselves talk and wish they could talk. Inner monologues that they wish they could express. Plus how boring would it be to read every um, like, and pause that take pace in the real world. These kids also play video games, watch movies, and watch trash TV. They just now have something extar going on- going blind, losing a limb, or dying.
Hazel loves the book An Imperial Affliction by Peter Van Houton, an author that has retreated to Amsterdam after his one bestselling book was published. Hazel wants to know the real ending or future of the characters in the book but Van Houten does not answer her letters. Augustus also falls in love with the book (and with Hazel) and they discuss it often. Now I know how my friends feel when I start talking about a book no one has read before. It does enhance the book though because Hazel feels like Van Houten knows about her disease and what it is like to die.
The book is really good and you should read it. It is my first John Green novel and I am ready to tackle his other novels
These are smart teens- Hazel has her GED and is taking classes at her local community college and Augustus can quote books like no one else. Some seem to have a problem with this fact. I've heard in other reviews that they do not talk how teens really talk. Personally I think that this is how teenagers hear themselves talk and wish they could talk. Inner monologues that they wish they could express. Plus how boring would it be to read every um, like, and pause that take pace in the real world. These kids also play video games, watch movies, and watch trash TV. They just now have something extar going on- going blind, losing a limb, or dying.
Hazel loves the book An Imperial Affliction by Peter Van Houton, an author that has retreated to Amsterdam after his one bestselling book was published. Hazel wants to know the real ending or future of the characters in the book but Van Houten does not answer her letters. Augustus also falls in love with the book (and with Hazel) and they discuss it often. Now I know how my friends feel when I start talking about a book no one has read before. It does enhance the book though because Hazel feels like Van Houten knows about her disease and what it is like to die.
The book is really good and you should read it. It is my first John Green novel and I am ready to tackle his other novels
I just loved the book...the story is so sensitive.. it teaches so much about love ..well different forms of love and also expresses the feelings correctly.... I cried in the end..but the book did connect well with me... :*
Not being able to stand the Anthropocene reviewed, I went into this trepidatiously, plus I’d seen the movie some time ago too, so there were no surprises. But I actually liked this quite a bit, for what it is. It’s prescriptive and one of those sentimental, overly orchestrated emotionally manipulative type books, like Irving or Haig.
That actually suits YA pretty well though, since this fiction is preoccupied with developing minds choosing who and what they are going to believe in. And this adds up to, well, maybe we should treat sick people with the same dignity as everybody else. With a message like that, I don’t mind the prescriptive elements. It’s cheesy and I don’t think most teenagers that age would behave the way these two do, but they are pretty expressly characters with a capital C, and the book is intentional about infusing them with some qualities you wouldn’t usually see—which is why they are characters and not concerned with verisimilitude (on that front).
I went in disliking the author and thinking I wasn’t going to like it, so I have to give it props. The deck was stacked against it and It still won. Though, more than some of it may be down to the absolutely stellar narration too.
That actually suits YA pretty well though, since this fiction is preoccupied with developing minds choosing who and what they are going to believe in. And this adds up to, well, maybe we should treat sick people with the same dignity as everybody else. With a message like that, I don’t mind the prescriptive elements. It’s cheesy and I don’t think most teenagers that age would behave the way these two do, but they are pretty expressly characters with a capital C, and the book is intentional about infusing them with some qualities you wouldn’t usually see—which is why they are characters and not concerned with verisimilitude (on that front).
I went in disliking the author and thinking I wasn’t going to like it, so I have to give it props. The deck was stacked against it and It still won. Though, more than some of it may be down to the absolutely stellar narration too.
I love this. It made me very angry. That is a good thing.
It was a quick read and I enjoyed the characters and the writing. I was genuinely saddened by the events of the story, and Hazel's perspective, as a teenager dying of cancer, was one I hadn't really experienced before this book. I can't comment on whether it was an accurate representation of that experience, but I found it really interesting.
I found, though, that the dialogue was more than a little bit overwritten. I don't know any teenagers who speak the way Hazel and Gus and Isaac do, and so although it was clever and witty and amusing, it didn't seem very realistic to me. I also disagreed with the whole premise of Hazel feeling this overwhelming need to find out from Van Houten what happened to the characters in his novel after it ended. I guess I am of the belief that the author is no more qualified to determine that than the reader is. It's like the movie Inception: the last scene, with the top spinning, the viewer doesn't know whether the top falls (meaning it's not a dream) or keeps spinning forever (meaning it is a dream). Watching it, I was totally frustrated that they would leave it up in the air like that, but it allows the viewer to decide for himself. There's no right answer. Similarly, with Hazel's favourite book, when it ends abruptly, she has this obsession with finding out what happens to the characters after. But the book ends. The story by the author is over. So the reader is free to decide for herself what happened after.
I found, though, that the dialogue was more than a little bit overwritten. I don't know any teenagers who speak the way Hazel and Gus and Isaac do, and so although it was clever and witty and amusing, it didn't seem very realistic to me. I also disagreed with the whole premise of Hazel feeling this overwhelming need to find out from Van Houten what happened to the characters in his novel after it ended. I guess I am of the belief that the author is no more qualified to determine that than the reader is. It's like the movie Inception: the last scene, with the top spinning, the viewer doesn't know whether the top falls (meaning it's not a dream) or keeps spinning forever (meaning it is a dream). Watching it, I was totally frustrated that they would leave it up in the air like that, but it allows the viewer to decide for himself. There's no right answer. Similarly, with Hazel's favourite book, when it ends abruptly, she has this obsession with finding out what happens to the characters after. But the book ends. The story by the author is over. So the reader is free to decide for herself what happened after.
“ …and I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too.” (313)
man… re-reading this book broke me.
i loved the cringe and laughs i endured and by the end, i was a weeping mess. i forgot how sweet and beautiful this book is.
love is so precious. life is beautiful and cruel.
im eternally grateful i get to live it everyday.
but god… frick you, john green for tugging at my heart strings until they snapped.
man… re-reading this book broke me.
i loved the cringe and laughs i endured and by the end, i was a weeping mess. i forgot how sweet and beautiful this book is.
love is so precious. life is beautiful and cruel.
im eternally grateful i get to live it everyday.
but god… frick you, john green for tugging at my heart strings until they snapped.
I will never forget the emotions that ran through me whilst reading this book! I read it before i saw the film so i could gather my own pictures and thoughts in my head. I cried so hard during my read, and cried harder at the movie! My all time favourite book.