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A review by librarybonanza
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
5.0
Age: High School, Adult
Tough Issue: Teens with cancer
First line: "Late in the winter of my 17th year my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death."
John Green, you sly dog, you've done it again. These characters are so ridiculously authentic and beautiful that, having moved onto other stories, I still cannot let them go.
"I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields" (137).
Augustus: "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and 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" (153).
Tough Issue: Teens with cancer
First line: "Late in the winter of my 17th year my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death."
John Green, you sly dog, you've done it again. These characters are so ridiculously authentic and beautiful that, having moved onto other stories, I still cannot let them go.
"I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields" (137).
Augustus: "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and 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" (153).