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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I saw the movie adaptation around the time it was released, but I just now read it for the first time. I really enjoyed it, so I made sure to read it slowly. I am looking forward to watching the movie again as well.
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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Critical Score: A
Personal Score: A
I read this one day about ten years ago a little after the movie had come out, though I can’t remember the timing for sure. I know I liked it, but maybe I loved it.
Reading it now, I definitely love it, very much.
In theory, straight white kids with cancer falling in love sounds like a mess.
But Green’s subversion of inspiration porn is so phenomenally beautiful, honest, fresh, heartbreaking, and human.
The characters are stunning, the philosophy is real, the emotions are earned.
This thing is filled with gut-wrenching lines. As successfully voicey as his previous novels are, this book blows them all out of the water. His style is pitch-perfect.
I was already crying 10 pages in, I cried at times in the middle, and I cried throughout the last 75 pages. I basically never cry (to my dismay), so this book is something else.
The amount of hype around TFIOS makes it so easy to hate, no matter how good it is. That’s the nature of such extreme popularity.
But I didn’t hate this book ten years ago, and I have no hate for it now.
This really captures that 2010s YA feeling in the most poignant way.
As simple and widely appealing as this book is, Green makes the absolute most of it and delivers the kind of writing that reminds me why I read.
Critical Score: A
Personal Score: A
I read this one day about ten years ago a little after the movie had come out, though I can’t remember the timing for sure. I know I liked it, but maybe I loved it.
Reading it now, I definitely love it, very much.
In theory, straight white kids with cancer falling in love sounds like a mess.
But Green’s subversion of inspiration porn is so phenomenally beautiful, honest, fresh, heartbreaking, and human.
The characters are stunning, the philosophy is real, the emotions are earned.
This thing is filled with gut-wrenching lines. As successfully voicey as his previous novels are, this book blows them all out of the water. His style is pitch-perfect.
I was already crying 10 pages in, I cried at times in the middle, and I cried throughout the last 75 pages. I basically never cry (to my dismay), so this book is something else.
The amount of hype around TFIOS makes it so easy to hate, no matter how good it is. That’s the nature of such extreme popularity.
But I didn’t hate this book ten years ago, and I have no hate for it now.
This really captures that 2010s YA feeling in the most poignant way.
As simple and widely appealing as this book is, Green makes the absolute most of it and delivers the kind of writing that reminds me why I read.
emotional
funny
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
This was my second time reading this book and, just like the first time, it wrecked me. I truly believe young love is the most powerful. I fell instantly in love with these characters. Their pain and their humor. This is a story of love and loss and grief in all of its beauty and ugliness and I devoured and enjoyed every minute of it.
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
The love story, the cancer fight is all good. But the book is beautiful in a whole other un-explainable level. The humour, the mere simplicity and the questions. I just wish I had a better word than "Beautiful" but, the word just fits the way I feel about this book, so very well. It's not good, awesome, perky or lively. It's just beautiful, in a way, I wished I hadn't read it already, and was gonna revel in it's beauty uninformed. I love the way, it's true. It just gently touches ground on life's truths, as in, it's no big deal. I mean, that's how the entire book has been built. It just matters on how you revel in your life, that's what makes it.
Made me cry, for the beauty of it.
If something, I ever write someday makes least one person feel the way, I'm feeling right now, that's my scar. I'd have lived a whole life.
Not really sure, if this is even a review. I just finished the book, like ten minutes back, and I'm typing like my life depends on it. But the feelings are just overwhelming. Beautiful writing, John. Beautiful, just the word for it.
Made me cry, for the beauty of it.
If something, I ever write someday makes least one person feel the way, I'm feeling right now, that's my scar. I'd have lived a whole life.
Not really sure, if this is even a review. I just finished the book, like ten minutes back, and I'm typing like my life depends on it. But the feelings are just overwhelming. Beautiful writing, John. Beautiful, just the word for it.
Pretty average. As a diehard member of Nerdfighteria, I really wanted to love this book, but, to me, it was pretty forgettable.
I really did like some of the points made in this book, specifically, the necessity of being able to talk about death. It is inevitable for all of us, but we are often too afraid to look at it. We think, "Thank God it wasn't me," even though it will be us one day; sometimes, it is so difficult for us to conceptualize the idea of death applying to ourselves. I think being able to confront the reality of our mortal nature can play a major role in making us emotionally intelligent and empathetic people. I liked how Hazel was clear about knowing how it would end, even though, I know it is a part of her character, depression, and cancer.
I also liked her reflection on the notion of "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger," that some things can scar, permanently hurt, or lead us to our demise. Although some challenges improve our resilience and strength and make us appreciate the good, something so imminent and heavy (aka cancer, terminal disease) doesn't require our positivity. We must rely on one another to have hope and lend strength, which doesn't necessarily require that we have a (falsely) positive outlook on the future. I liked the simplicity of the example she used, along the lines of "how bad broccoli is has no bearing on how good chocolate tastes." Traumatic experiences don't have to happen for us to have perspective on the good in our lives.
And, yes, I think these two things were great themes that I am glad were included. However, the read itself I found a bit dry and flat. The two characters had a pretty typical relationship, which is the main plot. I don't mind that they're relationship wasn't anything super exciting, but the majority of the book is watching Augustus trying to "leave a mark" or "play the hero" as a model type of character while Hazel watches as a kind of "quirky black cat" type. I elaborate, but I kind of summed up the whole book in this short paragraph. There is little substance that has a purpose but stringing along the theme, which would be fine, but the reading itself feels shallow and almost predictable.
Anyway, that was a lot of words. TLDR; good themes, pretty dry, I loved the ending.
I really did like some of the points made in this book, specifically, the necessity of being able to talk about death. It is inevitable for all of us, but we are often too afraid to look at it. We think, "Thank God it wasn't me," even though it will be us one day; sometimes, it is so difficult for us to conceptualize the idea of death applying to ourselves. I think being able to confront the reality of our mortal nature can play a major role in making us emotionally intelligent and empathetic people. I liked how Hazel was clear about knowing how it would end, even though, I know it is a part of her character, depression, and cancer.
I also liked her reflection on the notion of "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger," that some things can scar, permanently hurt, or lead us to our demise. Although some challenges improve our resilience and strength and make us appreciate the good, something so imminent and heavy (aka cancer, terminal disease) doesn't require our positivity. We must rely on one another to have hope and lend strength, which doesn't necessarily require that we have a (falsely) positive outlook on the future. I liked the simplicity of the example she used, along the lines of "how bad broccoli is has no bearing on how good chocolate tastes." Traumatic experiences don't have to happen for us to have perspective on the good in our lives.
And, yes, I think these two things were great themes that I am glad were included. However, the read itself I found a bit dry and flat. The two characters had a pretty typical relationship, which is the main plot. I don't mind that they're relationship wasn't anything super exciting, but the majority of the book is watching Augustus trying to "leave a mark" or "play the hero" as a model type of character while Hazel watches as a kind of "quirky black cat" type. I elaborate, but I kind of summed up the whole book in this short paragraph. There is little substance that has a purpose but stringing along the theme, which would be fine, but the reading itself feels shallow and almost predictable.
Anyway, that was a lot of words. TLDR; good themes, pretty dry, I loved the ending.
This book break my feelings and my sensibility
I read this book really fast and I used to have to say that I was dying of laughter and that of me and mrs Smith is really funny.
The book is very good
I read this book really fast and I used to have to say that I was dying of laughter and that of me and mrs Smith is really funny.
The book is very good
Well first of all, this book is great, it really is. I laughed and I almost cried. Hazel and Gus were just so cute together and I just loved their romance. However I got over the philosophical talk really quickly. Some of it fit, and others felt pushed in, and forced. No teenager talks like that (let alone has a vocabulary that... extensive?) Nonetheless, I still enjoyed the novel.