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The Fault in Our Stars

Green, John (Book - 2012)
Average Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5.
The Fault in Our Stars


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Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.

Imprint: New York : - Dutton Books
Pages: 318
Edition: 1st ed
ISBN: 9780525478812, 0525478817, 9780141345659
Language: English
Statement of responsibility: John Green
Characteristics: 318 p. ;,22 cm.
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May 17, 2013
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  • PudgyMittens rated this: 5 stars out of 5.

This was an AMAZING book! At first I was expecting some very depressing story, but then I found myself laughing to it. The characters had strong an amazing sense of humor that I loved and I found them relatable and grew to care about them.

May 16, 2013
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  • VartikaDubey rated this: 4 stars out of 5.

This is a very good book. I feel like I would've liked it more if I hadn't heard so much hype about it, because I expected it to be almost supernaturally good, but you know what, it lived up to close to what it should've and I really enjoyed reading it. There were tears, at times I burst out laughing, I found myself connecting to the characters, despite our obvious differences (I don't have terminal cancer), and I just thought that the language Green used was beautiful. What a fantastic, poignant story. I won't forget it.

May 13, 2013
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  • Sunflower19 rated this: 5 stars out of 5.

Loved this book. Broke my heart, made me cry on the floor in Barnes and Noble. I probably would never have picked this up, but my co-worker told me about it. After reading it I decided to do my next teen book club on it. There is something for everyone in it! Can't wait to see the movie.

May 12, 2013
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  • Melliestrawberry rated this: 5 stars out of 5.

Outstanding.*Marvelous.*Amazing. I could easily lavish this book with compliments, as so others. If you're wary about reading this book, maybe because it's a "Cancer Book," I implore that you should give it a chance. I guarantee that you'll love it, otherwise, you probably don't have a heart...or common sense...or a pulse. Also, this book isn't like a "cancer book." I don't really know what a cancer book is, being that I usually dont read books in that genre or topic. However, I do know that this book is different. Yes, the characters in this story do have cancer, but the story is more than that. Don't let it turn you off. READ IT AND YOU WILL LOVE IT. I haven't cried this book for a book since a while. It's a touching story. It's a funny story. It's a love story. It's everything you want in a book,

May 07, 2013
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  • bambi13 rated this: 5 stars out of 5.

An amazing book. Best I've read in a long time. Not only does Green fit tragedy perfectly in with sarcasm and humour but he told your perfect love story about two teenagers going through cancer. And not your crappy sappy love story kind but your infinite love kind. A book with two lovers that know eventually they're going to die but they're okay with that because they got to fall in love.

I am grateful I have no firsthand experience with attending the slow death of a young person but I think it would be severely lacking in all the humour and erudite conversations that take place between these children. Having said this I am certain this will be a beloved book for many and I'm thankful they will learn of T.S. Elliot and William Carlos William.

Best book I've read in a long time. Not at all what I was expecting - most cancer books sorta sound the same. Not this one. John Green has mastered the balance of sarcasm, love, sorrow and hope in one 300-page novel. This work spoke to me on such a personal level, and not because Hazel is going through cancer. It was as though he knew things about me even I didn't know. I laughed, I cried, I wish I could read it all over again for the first time. But be warned, this isn't a book to be read in public. Plenty of tears are guaranteed. Before, during AND after the climax.

Apr 19, 2013
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  • Musiclover19 rated this: 5 stars out of 5.

a tragic, pefectly imperfect love story about cancer patients.

WOW WOW WOW what a book-the ethics of dying children and their dreams-what could be a more heartbreaking saga. And Green manages to get love, humility, humour and pathos in between the chemo and the retching. Amazing.

Apr 14, 2013
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  • hgamespotter rated this: 5 stars out of 5.

This book played with my emotions it was very well written. I really love this book, I recommend it to all! <3

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Jul 20, 2012
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  • Draw rated this: 5 stars out of 5.

"The #1 New York Times bestseller that Time Magazine called “damn near genius,” The Fault in Our Stars is the story of Hazel Lancaster and Augustus Waters, two Indianapolis teenagers who meet at a Cancer Kid Support Group." *— From John Green's website.

Hazel Grace Lancaster is a16 year-old, stage IV cancer patient. Since the age of 13, she’s been living on borrowed time from the miraculous effects of an experimental drug. She’s also depressed (a side effect of dying), and as prescribed by her doctor, she attends a support group for cancer kids. Then, she unexpectedly meets the guy of her dreams; dreams she wasn’t even aware she could have. Augustus “Gus” Waters, is a an amputee battling with osteosarcoma , who also happens to be a gorgeous, brilliant, funny, person that Hazel describes as a “tenured professor in the department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin”. The two quickly become inseparable, and fall into a romantic friendship. A book with an abrupt ending, about a girl with cancer brings them even closer together and leads them on an adventure through Amsterdam to find the reclusive author and finally learn how the story ends. With the prospect of death at every corner, can their relationship survive tragedy? Grades 9 and up, 313 pages

Jan 30, 2012
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  • ArcusLibri rated this: 5 stars out of 5.

"Despite the medical miracle that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, but when Augustus Waters suddenly appears at the Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be rewritten.." *From NoveList Plus

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May 13, 2013
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  • Sunflower19 rated this: 5 stars out of 5.

“You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.”

May 07, 2013
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  • bambi13 rated this: 5 stars out of 5.

"Okay"<3

“He shook his head, just looking at me. - "What?" I asked. - "Nothing" he said. - "Why are you looking at me like that?" Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence." A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: "I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything." I kind of scoffed or sighed or exhaled in a way that was vaguely coughy and then said, "I`m not beau-" - "You are like a millennial Natalie Portman. Like V for Vendetta Natalie Portman." - "Never seen it." - "Really?" he asked. "Pixie-haired gorgeous girl dislikes authority and can`t help but fall for a boy she knows is trouble. It`s your autobiography, so far as I can tell." His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn`t even know that guys could turn me on - not, like, in real life.”

"“Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway” - hazel grace

"I believe the universe wants to be noticed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it, or my observation of it, is temporary?" -Hazel's Dad

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Dec 29, 2012
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  • gracelikerain rated this: 5 stars out of 5.

"Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you" - Augustus Waters (John Green)

Dec 17, 2012
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"That's the thing about pain," Augustus said, "It demands to be felt"

Dec 03, 2012
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"Pain is like fabric. The more you have, the more it's worth.

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Jul 20, 2012
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  • Draw rated this: 5 stars out of 5.

[Book Trailer] The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Book trailer by "PenguinYoungReaders" or "Penguin teen", song is "Permafrost" by Laurena Segura. Okay? Okay.

Jun 28, 2012
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  • PeculiarLeah rated this: 4.5 stars out of 5.

Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars

John Green: author of TFiOS and co-creator of the Vlogbrothers on youtube reads the first chapter of his newest book #TFiOS #ThisStarWon'tGoOut

Jun 28, 2012
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  • pscho rated this: 5 stars out of 5.

John Green interviewed about Fault in the Stars

Nice long interview with the author.

Mar 07, 2012
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John Green reading Chapter One

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