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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

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pmatt2010's review against another edition

5.0

A lot of life lessons learned in here. This book has changed the way I think about things. Makes me so grateful about my life. I will think about this book for a long time.
5 Stars
Recommend but be emotionally prepared for it

awinds917's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

baileylizhi's review against another edition

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4.0

I really wish I could give this book six stars, at least. Speaking completely from personal opinion, five simply does not do it justice. I'm so glad I have finally read it! Not only is John Green a fantastically intelligent writer (thanks, John Green, for not being afraid to use a bit of variety in your vocabulary), but this particular story was so emotional. I cried through at least 50% of the book. It touches me in a very personal way, as I have know many people affected by cancer. I thought it was marvelous because in some (perhaps sadistic)manner, the saddest books are my favorite. It also doesn't hurt to throw in a little bit of star crossed romance as well.

radiantdara's review against another edition

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1.0

DNF at chapter eight. I don’t understand what’s so amazing and life-changing about this book. Of course it’s great that it has insight on what having cancer is like, but chose the worst characters with the most unbelievable romance. Five minutes after meeting Augustus, Hazel gets in his car, goes to his house, and meets his parents. It’s very rushed, and there’s nothing special about either of them as characters.

marshmallowbooks's review against another edition

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3.0

While I never received a specific recommendation to read any of John Green's books, I felt for some reason that they did come highly recommended. I'm not sure where I got that impression, but something about it led me to reading this, which is the first of his books I've gone through.

I listened to the audiobook which I feel is sometimes risky if I haven't read the book before. The one thing I can say for certain about any audiobook I have ever listened to: the quality of the narrator can either make or break it for me.

Luckily, in the case of this book, the narrator was fantastic. She even eclipsed my generalization that females are terrible at providing the voice of males and make them all sound like dumb jocks. She was, in fact, quite excellent at voicing both the main character of Hazel Grace, as well as Hazel's boyfriend Augustus and their friend Isaac. Plus, she did a very nice job of adding the additional expressions that were necessary for this story: Hazel uses and oxygen tank, and if she was short of breath, so was the narrator. I thought that was very well done.

Narration aside, I felt the book was pretty good. It seemed to be very well researched, as far as the situation of the characters, who are in various stages of having serious, and sometimes terminal illnesses. I was impressed by that factor.

Other than that, to be honest, the story didn't stand out to me a whole lot. It was good, but not to the point that I'm rushing out to read everything else John Green has written. Although, I think that might be more of a sign that maybe I'm [finally] starting the beginning of outgrowing YA fiction. A little bit. Perhaps. At least to the point that I'm a little more selective of what I'm willing to read from that section.

macneill___rae's review against another edition

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4.0

4.5 stars

This book is one of many on my list that, unfortunately, I had not read before the movie and really wish I had. What a fantastic book! I absolutely loved it but had to dock some points because I unfortunately did know a lot of the story, which made me not as surprised. From now on, I am really going to try and make an effort to read the books before the movies come out. They were made into movies for a reason.