The Fault in Our Stars
Reviews
I had heard a lot about this book and finally decided to read it. I flew through this book. The writing was magnificent and the story was sad but easy to follow. The ending was bound to happen but was sad to see. Overall it's an amazing book with good characters. I would recommend this book to anyone.
este libro lo leí con 11 años y obviamente se lleva sus cuatro estrellas. no estoy calificando la calidad, califico el recuerdo
a great book for one read. the first time going through, the characters captured my heart and allowed me to ignore the flaws with the book. it falls apart with more rereads, but remains a deeply touching book.
i cant believe i bought into the hype of this when i was 13. why are u kissing at the anne frank's museum. she didn't die for this
Loved it and hatef it. For a moment I really thought that John Green and Peter Van Houten were vwry much alike.
This book broke my heart.
iconic
I came into this book thinking it was going to be a touching story and I would cry. However, that was not the case. While the book was packed with meaningful scenarios and metaphors. I did not cry and I finished the book with a sigh. The author did narrate the book well and I liked the plot and characters. But not that much. I think somehow I did not feel the connection between Hazel and Augustus, although I did enjoy their conversations with each other. The author did create seemingly real characters with real hopes and dreams. But I did feel like Hazel did not mourn as much. I know everybody mourns and grieves differently but come on? Like weren't you in love or something? Truthfully, I liked the movie better and actually cried on that one. But it still was a good read.
John Green does it again
Surprisingly not as bad as one of those typical books teenagers are into these days.
Reread, just a must read
4.5 stars
20th April 2020: I finished reading The fault in our stars in the evening (my 5th book in the past one year). I have been late to try TFIOS, I know. Most of the people might have read it before or watched the movie, this wasn't the case with me. It is a young adult fiction with a lot of romance which wasn't really "my" genre all this time. John Green changed it for me. TFIOS isn't all about the romantic part. The subtle touch of irony and transience of life made a lot more difference to the plot... Isaac had my sympathy, Augustus was really a "bright child" and Hazel, she was the bravest of all. I have never been so engrossed in a book as I was this time. The end was tragic and brutal with a lot of heartbreak, John Green definitely knows how to trigger those heartstrings of ours. I almost believed Peter Van Houten was a real person and that Price of dawn was actually a game lol, Ahh but now I feel like writing mails to John Green expressing my views about the book. It will always stay close to me, I was obsessed for a very long time. It barely took me two days to read the book, I was that engrossed! Yes I discontinued the last time I started reading it, I saved it for a good moment. But I was sad the story ended, ended at a sad note, but "Some infinities are bigger than other infinities" :)
You see, perhaps I would have enjoyed this better had I not been horribly spoiled about the ending of it. Knowing what happened took the surprise off it. Anyway, it's a pretty good book, Green catches perfectly the mind of teenagers (as seen before in Will Grayson Will Grayson), and even if both Hazel and Augustus are philosophical, as a teenager myself I can argue that teenagers are capable of such thoughts.
First of all, this is my first book I have read after not reading for two years as I could not visit my favorite library due to the pandemic and me being depressed to even go out other than scroll my phone 24/7. One of my middle school teachers gifted me this book when we met since for like ever and I want to thank her so much. The fault in our stars is an amazing book, as in the book its a bursts of humor and tragedy, I loved this book so much, the characters Hazel, Augustus and Isaac, each chapters, tbh it was a heartwarming and clenching point of view to know how people with cancer in this book live as for I have well lived ungratefully, this might sound weird but this book gave me the motivation I longed for the past few months, after shutting myself scared to go out and going to school because of social anxiety, skipping to eat, vomiting a lot, fainting, few therapy sessions which kind of helped a bit and a lot moms support, I say thank you to this book for finding me. shout out to John Green for writing this book ^0^. Definitely a must read. ps. I know I'm supposed to leave a review of this book but this like this is my first time using Goodreads also I want to leave somewhere how I felt when I read the book soo bear with me xd
really witty characters. I love the dynamic between Hazel, her parents and Augustus...even Isaac. Well-written and made me cry.
2024 — giving it 2 or 2.5 stars because while this book gave us so many melancholic quotes about love and loss, it still felt repetitive and uninteresting. 2014 — solid 3 stars because i will admit that i was forced to read and like this book because of peer and societal pressure lol
🥹😭❤️
Two things I have to say about this book: *Beautifully written *Emotionally traumatizing
"The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people noticing things, paying attention."
I feel it would be useless to say how awesome this book is when so many people has said everything there is to say about its greatness. Nevertheless, if someone has not read it yet, do it. The Fault in Our Stars is a beautiful book filled with great characters that will live forever in our hearts.
A young reader would love this. Hence, I loved it when I first read it, but unfortunately, I am not young anymore.
Highlights
“I’m in love with you,” he said quietly.
“Augustus,” I said.
“I am,” he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. “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.”
“It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
Like- what?! ☠️😂💞
"Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin."
I’ve always wanted to visit Amsterdam. 💖
“The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes” he said a lin from an Imperial Affliction.
“But it’s not rising” I said.
“It’s rising somewhere.”
This made me laugh a bit, even tho it’s not even that funny 😆
"That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt."
And it never leaves you 😇👍🏻
“Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making, when they make them” I said.
Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?”
I believe in love, but not true love. 💔
“I want to minimize the number of deaths I’m responsible for.”
She’s so sweet 😭💘
“In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life.”
Aww
"And I've never lit one. It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing."
Metaphors are just his thing 💗
"When all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this"-I gestured encompassingly-"will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does."
This is very deep and truthful.
"But her hand was still her hand."
"I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team."
"While the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world."
"My old man. He always knew just what to say."
"And here it was, the great and terrible ten."
"Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."
"There is no try," I said. "There is only do."
Without the context: I really like it
"Some infinities are larger than other infinities."
"But something in their iron robot hearts will yearn to have live and died as we did: on the hero's errand."
"And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything."
"The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives."
"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."
"I shall say you will die and none will remember you."
"Hazel," Dad said, and then choked up. He cried a lot, my dad."