The Fault in Our Stars
Bookpage Interviews and Reviews
-
A signature move pays off for John Green
It would be completely understandable to discover, upon meeting John Green, that he’s tired and hoarse and must sleep with his hands elevated on the softest of pillows every night.
More
Reader Reviews
Meet Hazel, diagnosed with thyroid cancer at 12 and ready to die.
While reading the beginning of the book I felt a “click” with the story that ended when Hazel met Gus at Cancer Support Group (apparently people who suffer the cancer have a massive vocabulary, especially teenagers).
Are you supposed to like a book just because it is about cancer and dying teenagers? Some readers love this book so much that they get offended if you don’t. I feel the book said too much and nothing at the same time.
Sadly, the story didn’t work for me. I did not enjoy the story within the story of the book (the writer, the fictional book...). I feel it was too fast paced. I mean, not that the book had to be only about sickness and that, but I didn't get this "An Imperial Affection" mystery/conflict.
I did feel sad and almost like crying at one point or two, but that wasn’t enough to make like the book.
John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars is a wonderfully empathetic teenage fiction novel, which provides the reader with an eye-opening insight into the worlds of teenage cancer sufferers. The story is told through the first person account of Hazel Green Lancaster, a sufferer of terminal thyroid cancer.
The story is gripping and emotive, yet humorous to counteract the dark topical subject matter, as it follows the lives of three teenagers brought together by a cancer support group, Hazel, Augustus Waters and Isaac and an author affected cancer who the two main characters, Hazel and Augustus, long to meet in his home in Amsterdam to unlock the secrets of his novel, which is likewise about cancer.
As is typical of John Green’s books, The Fault in our Stars is full of fascinating, interesting and philosophical quotes taken mostly from other authors and poets, which give John Green’s work some unique aspects.
This book is both emotive and humorous and a gripping read once you get past the slightly annoying stereotypical “American teenager” idiolect that John Green uses in his novels, none the less it is interesting and shows the views of teenage cancer sufferers very well and uniquely which makes for an interesting read.
John Green’s The Fault in our Stars is a wonderfully empathetic teenage fiction novel, which provides the reader with an eye-opening insight into the worlds of teenage cancer sufferers. The story is told through the first person account of Hazel Green Lancaster, a sufferer of terminal thyroid cancer.
The story is gripping and emotive, yet humorous to counteract the dark topical subject matter, as it follows the lives of three teenagers brought together by a cancer support group; Hazel, Augustus Waters and Isaac - and an author who the two main characters, Hazel and Augustus, long to meet in his home in Amsterdam to unlock the secrets of his novel, which is likewise about cancer.
As is typical of John Green’s books, The Fault in our Stars is full of fascinating, interesting and philosophical quotes taken mostly from other authors and poets, which give John Green’s work some unique aspects.
This book is both emotive and humorous, and a gripping read once you get past the slightly annoying stereotypical “American teenager” idiolect that John Green uses in his novels, none the less it is interesting and shows the views of teenage cancer sufferers very well and uniquely which makes for an interesting read.