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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
First of,I bought this book because of everyone telling me buy it so I went town with my family and bought it.I start read it straight away I was 100% interested to read it but my only problem is that I didn't cry at the end and I don't know?... But the story and the characters were great to read about I found Angustus to be really smart and abit of a know it all
OVERALL....Loved it but I wanted something more out of it
OVERALL....Loved it but I wanted something more out of it
emotional
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
I really liked The Fault in Our Stars! It’s an odd experience reading this after so many years of hype for this book. The character development was good, the plot was good and it really captures real teens being put in unfair and awful situations. The little philosophy references made my little academic heart very happy too. I get now why this was so popular and I think it deserves it popularity. Definitely recommend.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Terminal illness
Moderate: Sexual content, Medical trauma
Funny and sad, such an emotional book. Exactly how life truly is. Loved it!
So you know how when there's a super popular book/movie/song out and somehow you completely missed the first wave of its popularity, so by the time you read/watch/hear it, it's been built up so much that it inevitably disappoints you?
The Fault in Our Stars is not that book.
About halfway through, right after the dinner, I almost didn't want to finish this book. I liked it too much. I didn't think there was any possible ending that would not disappoint me. I was loving the characters and the story so much, and I knew I would only get to read it without knowing the ending once. Knowing the ending changes how you read the rest of the book. You only get to experience the story with no idea what's going to happen once. I still enjoy re-reading books, because every time I read a book, even if I know how it ends, it's a little different. I get different things out of it. But you only get the first time once, and I was already mourning the fact that this book was going to end much sooner than I wanted it to.
So I was having a crisis about not wanting to finish the book, and I went home and did it anyways. And then I read the most perfect line, that summed everything up for me in that one moment. It wasn't even an original line, it was from a poem that I'd only even heard about because of another book. "So dawn goes down to day, the poet wrote. Nothing gold can stay." (pg 278)
I'm sure that I will read this book many more times in my life. And I'm sure that each time, there will be a different line that stands out to me. But this time, the first time, I can never get it back again. Nothing gold can stay.
The Fault in Our Stars is not that book.
About halfway through, right after the dinner, I almost didn't want to finish this book. I liked it too much. I didn't think there was any possible ending that would not disappoint me. I was loving the characters and the story so much, and I knew I would only get to read it without knowing the ending once. Knowing the ending changes how you read the rest of the book. You only get to experience the story with no idea what's going to happen once. I still enjoy re-reading books, because every time I read a book, even if I know how it ends, it's a little different. I get different things out of it. But you only get the first time once, and I was already mourning the fact that this book was going to end much sooner than I wanted it to.
So I was having a crisis about not wanting to finish the book, and I went home and did it anyways. And then I read the most perfect line, that summed everything up for me in that one moment. It wasn't even an original line, it was from a poem that I'd only even heard about because of another book. "So dawn goes down to day, the poet wrote. Nothing gold can stay." (pg 278)
I'm sure that I will read this book many more times in my life. And I'm sure that each time, there will be a different line that stands out to me. But this time, the first time, I can never get it back again. Nothing gold can stay.
This book is sad.
I knew it was going to be sad, but it wasn't sad in the way I thought it was going to be sad... so it was a shocking sad?
Which somehow made it sadder.
This could have been a 5 star book, but there were certain parts that made me cringe a little.
But all in all it was a very entertaining (while sad) book.
I knew it was going to be sad, but it wasn't sad in the way I thought it was going to be sad... so it was a shocking sad?
Which somehow made it sadder.
This could have been a 5 star book, but there were certain parts that made me cringe a little.
But all in all it was a very entertaining (while sad) book.
Amazing! I would read this over and over and over. This book is worth every penny and every cent of time. Please make time for this book. It is beautiful.
I have avoided this book like the plague. Oh, a YA book that has millions of teenage girls sniffling amongst themselves and wondering who will play who in the movie version? No thanks. Lurlene McDaniel cured me of ever having to read about dying teenagers again. Or so I thought. There are just so many great reviews about this book, and from people whose opinions about literature I highly value...And then there was this terrible bout of insomnia that struck on Friday night, and what was I supposed to do? Well, I started what I thought was going to be a terrible and tragic book that I would not be grateful to have read.
I'm glad I DID get over myself and my preconceived (and frankly pompous) notions regarding this book. It's a REALLY GOOD BOOK. It just is. It's not a "cancer book" as Hazel would say, and it's no Lurlene McDaniel tearjerker that you should only read when you're a menstruating 13 year old girl.
The characters are real, wholly fleshed out, smart, funny, and relatable. I mean, it just takes me RIGHT BACK to being a teenager - granted I wasn't terminally ill, but the themes of being a teenager in an adult's world still rang true. Sometimes they JUST DON'T GET IT!
I love that the teens in this book were such thoughtful consumers of literature - a nice foil to a lot of the crap we read about millenials and their tech-addictions. These kids not only faced death head on, but really THOUGHT about mortality, religion, belief, consciousness, and the purpose of life, heroism, and love.
I'm not sure that I followed the heroism plot as much as some others have mentioned that they did - I feel more like Gus was using heroism as an overarching concept covering "making some kind of damn difference".
While I didn't shed any tears over this one, it did make me think, and I've been thinking for hours since I finished the book. I'm impressed with how Green handled DEATH and DYING and GRIEF and TEENAGE ANGST, and how humbled the characters made me feel by their strength, courage, and selflessness.
No, I'm not sad I swam with the tide on this one and read one of the most popular books in the genre. It's a good book, and I'm glad I got to spend some time with the remarkable young people Green portrayed.
Great quotes:
"'There will come a time,' I said, 'when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this' - I gestured encompassingly - 'will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was a time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does.'"
"'Not your fault, Hazel Grace. We're all just side effects, right?' 'Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness,' I said..
"'I am in love with you, he said quietly.'...'I am,' he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. 'I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying rue things. I'm in love with you, an I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.'"
"'You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!'"
"'It's bullshit. I hate it. But it sure was a privilege to love him, huh?' I nodded into his shirt. 'Gives you an idea how I feel about you,' he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say."
"...the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering. I thought of my dad telling me that the universe wants to be noticed. But what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us - not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us, as individuals."
"I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn't get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn't gotten to be a person yet."
"You of all people know it is possible to live with pain."
"...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again."
"It was a kind of beautiful day, finally real summer, warm and humid - the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world."
"Hazel is different. She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. Hazel knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as to help it, and we're not likely to do either."
I'm glad I DID get over myself and my preconceived (and frankly pompous) notions regarding this book. It's a REALLY GOOD BOOK. It just is. It's not a "cancer book" as Hazel would say, and it's no Lurlene McDaniel tearjerker that you should only read when you're a menstruating 13 year old girl.
The characters are real, wholly fleshed out, smart, funny, and relatable. I mean, it just takes me RIGHT BACK to being a teenager - granted I wasn't terminally ill, but the themes of being a teenager in an adult's world still rang true. Sometimes they JUST DON'T GET IT!
I love that the teens in this book were such thoughtful consumers of literature - a nice foil to a lot of the crap we read about millenials and their tech-addictions. These kids not only faced death head on, but really THOUGHT about mortality, religion, belief, consciousness, and the purpose of life, heroism, and love.
I'm not sure that I followed the heroism plot as much as some others have mentioned that they did - I feel more like Gus was using heroism as an overarching concept covering "making some kind of damn difference".
While I didn't shed any tears over this one, it did make me think, and I've been thinking for hours since I finished the book. I'm impressed with how Green handled DEATH and DYING and GRIEF and TEENAGE ANGST, and how humbled the characters made me feel by their strength, courage, and selflessness.
No, I'm not sad I swam with the tide on this one and read one of the most popular books in the genre. It's a good book, and I'm glad I got to spend some time with the remarkable young people Green portrayed.
Great quotes:
"'There will come a time,' I said, 'when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this' - I gestured encompassingly - 'will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was a time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does.'"
"'Not your fault, Hazel Grace. We're all just side effects, right?' 'Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness,' I said..
"'I am in love with you, he said quietly.'...'I am,' he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. 'I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying rue things. I'm in love with you, an I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.'"
"'You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!'"
"'It's bullshit. I hate it. But it sure was a privilege to love him, huh?' I nodded into his shirt. 'Gives you an idea how I feel about you,' he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say."
"...the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering. I thought of my dad telling me that the universe wants to be noticed. But what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us - not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us, as individuals."
"I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn't get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn't gotten to be a person yet."
"You of all people know it is possible to live with pain."
"...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again."
"It was a kind of beautiful day, finally real summer, warm and humid - the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world."
"Hazel is different. She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. Hazel knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as to help it, and we're not likely to do either."
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes