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The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
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.