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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
My review might spoil the book a little but what do you expect? This is a book about cancer. Someone will die anyway.
At first I liked Hazel because of her sarcasm and I liked that she did not change as she fell in love with Augustus. But I think the love story was not necessary. When I think about the book I picture Hazel and Gus as friends and ignore all the kissing stuff. Nevertheless it did not bother me so much.
There were worse things than the love story. I hated the characters talking about "boy movies" and "girl movies" because there are no such things. The old-fashioned opinions the characters/the author sometimes had I did not like at all.
And there were too many metaphors in the dialogs. They made the book sometimes very exhausting to read.
Maybe you get a little melancholic when you know you are about to die...
The first half of the book I gave 4 stars but when the couple + Hazel's mom got to Amsterdam everything went down. I did not like how the author showed the Netherlands stereotyped. Maybe that is the reason why I did not like that part at all? I do not know.
But the only thing that saved the book for me there was the plot twist. Not something thrilling but something that was (at least for me) unexpected.
What I liked about the death was that there was no dramatic last goodbye. It made the scene feel real. You rarely get the chance to say goodbye.
Also I liked that the book did not end right after the death. Green gave a good closure.
Conclusion:
"You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice" (page 209)
Green chose the funny way to tell his sad story and I liked it. The book was better than expected and also worse because I did not think I would enjoy it but I also did not think I would be influenced by it (however I did not cry like a baby as predicted but sometimes I had to laugh).
Green might have overdone the dialogs between Hazel & Gus but the book overall was enjoyable.
Although I give the book 3 stars now I might read again. We'll see.
At first I liked Hazel because of her sarcasm and I liked that she did not change as she fell in love with Augustus. But I think the love story was not necessary. When I think about the book I picture Hazel and Gus as friends and ignore all the kissing stuff. Nevertheless it did not bother me so much.
There were worse things than the love story. I hated the characters talking about "boy movies" and "girl movies" because there are no such things. The old-fashioned opinions the characters/the author sometimes had I did not like at all.
And there were too many metaphors in the dialogs. They made the book sometimes very exhausting to read.
Maybe you get a little melancholic when you know you are about to die...
The first half of the book I gave 4 stars but when the couple + Hazel's mom got to Amsterdam everything went down. I did not like how the author showed the Netherlands stereotyped. Maybe that is the reason why I did not like that part at all? I do not know.
But the only thing that saved the book for me there was the plot twist. Not something thrilling but something that was (at least for me) unexpected.
Spoiler
Although it sounds morbid I liked that the one we believed would die was not the one to die in the end.What I liked about the death was that there was no dramatic last goodbye. It made the scene feel real. You rarely get the chance to say goodbye.
Also I liked that the book did not end right after the death. Green gave a good closure.
Conclusion:
"You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice" (page 209)
Green chose the funny way to tell his sad story and I liked it. The book was better than expected and also worse because I did not think I would enjoy it but I also did not think I would be influenced by it (however I did not cry like a baby as predicted but sometimes I had to laugh).
Green might have overdone the dialogs between Hazel & Gus but the book overall was enjoyable.
Although I give the book 3 stars now I might read again. We'll see.
Read this at 14 and loved it, it was one of the books that really got me into reading back then. Picked it up at the library recently for a little nostalgia and 10 years later it holds up. Still made me cry, curse you John
Okay, I have to admit that I really only heard about this book when I started hearing about the movie. There, I said it. But now I'm completely won over.
My favorite part about this book was not the story, though the story is lovely and unexpected yet predictable as soon as you understand what and whom it's about but, in spite of that fact, is completely engaging. It's about kids with cancer, but not in a sticky-sweet, rosy glow kind of way. Its about kids with cancer still living real lives and being mad and funny and brave and cowardly and sad and strong and normal, all at the same time.
It was not the characters, though each one was developed really well and I could imagine them walking and talking in the real world. There was grace and romance and care given to portraying how kids in this situation might truly feel, rather than just pasting teen faces on fake adult characters.
No, my favorite thing was the language and the pacing of the writing. Oh my word was this a wonderful book to listen to. I really want to get the book book so I can see the words and the punctuation and get the flow and word choices into my head in another way. I could see and feel the words telling the story while I listened and that hasn't happened for a while.
Yes, I love the way John Green uses his words. The combination of vocabulary, cadence and structure, well, it moves me. I have been struggling to listen to books lately, and I know it matters which books you listen to, but when I got into this one I realized I just need more words in my life. I need to read more, write more and listen more. I listened to this almost in one day because I actually didn't want to stop listening.
I have missed words.
Thank you John Green for your beautiful, sad, happy story that reminded me.
My favorite part about this book was not the story, though the story is lovely and unexpected yet predictable as soon as you understand what and whom it's about but, in spite of that fact, is completely engaging. It's about kids with cancer, but not in a sticky-sweet, rosy glow kind of way. Its about kids with cancer still living real lives and being mad and funny and brave and cowardly and sad and strong and normal, all at the same time.
It was not the characters, though each one was developed really well and I could imagine them walking and talking in the real world. There was grace and romance and care given to portraying how kids in this situation might truly feel, rather than just pasting teen faces on fake adult characters.
No, my favorite thing was the language and the pacing of the writing. Oh my word was this a wonderful book to listen to. I really want to get the book book so I can see the words and the punctuation and get the flow and word choices into my head in another way. I could see and feel the words telling the story while I listened and that hasn't happened for a while.
Yes, I love the way John Green uses his words. The combination of vocabulary, cadence and structure, well, it moves me. I have been struggling to listen to books lately, and I know it matters which books you listen to, but when I got into this one I realized I just need more words in my life. I need to read more, write more and listen more. I listened to this almost in one day because I actually didn't want to stop listening.
I have missed words.
Thank you John Green for your beautiful, sad, happy story that reminded me.
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.