After reading Will Grayson, Will Grayson by the same author and only finding it to be good (when everyone I knew raved about it), I was a little hesitant to give this one try. I'm happy to say that this book is as good as everyone said it is. I could nit pick a few things here and there, but by and large it is a very well paced, beautifully evoked tale of two teenagers, both whose lives are forever altered by cancer, who fall in love.

Green writes in a way that simultaneously manages to be witty and extraordinarily moving. I didn't cry (Book Thief and The Road are a couple that managed to extract tears from my hardened heart, lol), but it was very emotional, but never melodramatic, and done really, really well.

I did find I wish I was my teenaged self reading this book because my teenaged self would have absolutely loved, loved, loved it. As an adult, I just really, really liked it. ( )

I'M NOT OKAY AFTER READING THIS!I feel GRAND and enlightened..like everything I was searching for until now was in these 318 pages.I cannot explain how I feel after reading this book.It's the feeling you get when you meet someone and you know they're going to be with you forever..it's MAGIC!

Augustus and Hazel's love is designed by the Gods!It's a capital S Something.It has made me blush,smile,laugh and cry.It has made me realize that love is all you need to live on this earth.Their love story is true and blunt.It shows what happens in reality.It tells us the truth about FOREVER(which I know,is the name of another book,apparently).

I got this book as a gift from my amazing brother,whom I love even more after reading this! when he came from college in January.I never got a chance to read it until now.It is filled with the life..and you can feel it the moment you open it.Hazel is one-of-a-kind.She is original.I feel like Hazel is a real person living in Indianapolis.She says things like they are and has this weird personality.She talks wonderfully about oblivion and then watches all these weird shows on TV.She is funny but not mean.She is kind and intelligent.She is my hero!She is NOT FICTIONAL to me!She's "literally" in my heart!



Augustus Waters is everything I want in a guy,but I'll never get..so I'll read and dream about him and hope that he's somewhere out there,grand as always :)The way he talks and calls her "Hazel Grace" every time he picks up the phone.The way he is with Isaac and the way he showed Hazel how much he loved her.When he was with Caroline Mathers he didn't dump her because he didn't want her to be sad.It's all so Augustus.He's too good to be true and he is by far my favorite hero.I can't find a person who is as whole as he is.

Isaac is another person that you don't get to see everyday.The friendship between Hazel and Isaac seems more interesting to me than that between him and Gus.The way he talks about love has amused me the most.His eulogy for the pre-funeral was one of the best parts in the book.He is funny and charming..and has a unique sense of humor.



Every single character in the story was real to the core,to me.I loved each of them and they walked in and out of story touching my heart in their own beautiful ways.Hazel taught me how to be myself.She told her story with truth.If she hadn't narrated the story..I don't think it would've touched our souls like it did.Augustus taught me how to live.He was game for life and everything it gave him.Isaac taught me about true love and how to value it.This is something that I'd never forget in my entire life.Something that I'd give my children to read.This shows life and joy it gives and sorrow that we have to go through every day to see the next.It taught what love is and how to love.It showed that true love does exist.It showed me that infinities can happen in a number of days.

This book has set the bar pretty high..I hope the next one exceeds expectations!
PS..I forgot to mention Peter and "AIA".I almost thought the book was real..too bad it's not :(





IF SOMEONE ASKS ME WHAT TRUE LOVE IS,I'LL ASK THEM TO READ






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Hazel is a terminal cancer patient who's had a minor miracle in the drug Phalanxifor, but this has only bought her time. Then she meets Augustus Waters in Cancer Support Group.... he is in remission from a cancer which has taken part of his leg, but has an 80% survival rate. He instantly takes a liking to Hazel, and the 2 of them find they have a very similar attitude and sense of humor. Hazel introduces "Gus" to "An Imperial Affliction", her favorite book... a book about a girl with leukemia w/ no real ending (it actually ends in the middle of a sentence). After reading the book and successfully communicating with the author (something Hazel has tried to do many times), Gus decides to use his wish (Make-A-Wish type thing) to go to Amsterdam and get the ending that Hazel wants so badly.
They go, and though they do not get the answers they want, Van Houten turns out to be a drunkard, they have an amazing trip anyway. They fall in love (well give in to love, because they had already fallen by then).

Holy WOW!!! I wanted to give this a 5 star, but I couldn't... I'll give it 4 1/2 because it made me feel too sad/depressed. I swear after I finished it I stayed up half the night contemplating life and the meaning of it all... and while that is pretty great stuff for a book to get into my head like that, I do not like to be reminded that my life is small and insignificant and that I will too die and eventually no one will care.
But even though it left me feeling like life is pointless, I still loved it. It was just so smart!! I loved how Hazel was so against all the typical sympathys that people say to other people who are dying/have a loved one who died. All those things are so cliched to the point where they don't mean anything. It was an awesomely written book! I don't even know how someone could come up with such insight into a dying persons mind, unless they were dying themselves.... amazing!!
I recommend this book to anyone who wants to read something deep and really moving... not to parents though. I'm a mom to a 4 year old, and it was really hard to read without fearing for my own child. Like Hazel said "If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does." Thank you Hazel, and I assure you I try my best to do just that, except reading a book like this makes it kinda hard!!!

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3.5 stars. The Fault in Our Stars was such an engaging story, but so deeply sad. Not just "a bunch of kids are living and dying with cancer sad," but deeply, deeply sad. Questions like "Why am I here?" and "What is my life worth?" are so differently and more satisfyingly answered in my world view. ( )

The fault in our stars! author:John Green!
John green has done a brilliant job wrting a story about cancer patients Hazel and Augustus
It had so much emotional value and a story line that read strait through the book till the very end
I loved to read about all there emotion they experienced during time they knew each other!
reading about thrilling, and tragic exeperiences of being both alive for the time being and in love.
One of the best books i ever read!!
What i liked:
The way the story is written
the storyline and plot
The brilliant main characters
conlclusion: a brilliant book from John Green!
I can recommend this for readers who like emotional, thrilling books
a 5 stars +++ for me! ( )