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The Fault in Our Stars [Kindle Edition]

John Green
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3,565 customer reviews)

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Book Description

TIME Magazine’s #1 Fiction Book of 2012!
The Fault in Our Stars is a love story, one of the most genuine and moving ones in recent American fiction, but it’s also an existential tragedy of tremendous intelligence and courage and sadness.” —Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine


Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.

Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning-author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.


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Amazon.com Review

Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2012: In The Fault in Our Stars, John Green has created a soulful novel that tackles big subjects--life, death, love--with the perfect blend of levity and heart-swelling emotion. Hazel is sixteen, with terminal cancer, when she meets Augustus at her kids-with-cancer support group. The two are kindred spirits, sharing an irreverent sense of humor and immense charm, and watching them fall in love even as they face universal questions of the human condition--How will I be remembered? Does my life, and will my death, have meaning?--has a raw honesty that is deeply moving. --Seira Wilson

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*Starred Review* At 16, Hazel Grace Lancaster, a three-year stage IV–cancer survivor, is clinically depressed. To help her deal with this, her doctor sends her to a weekly support group where she meets Augustus Waters, a fellow cancer survivor, and the two fall in love. Both kids are preternaturally intelligent, and Hazel is fascinated with a novel about cancer called An Imperial Affliction. Most particularly, she longs to know what happened to its characters after an ambiguous ending. To find out, the enterprising Augustus makes it possible for them to travel to Amsterdam, where Imperial’s author, an expatriate American, lives. What happens when they meet him must be left to readers to discover. Suffice it to say, it is significant. Writing about kids with cancer is an invitation to sentimentality and pathos—or worse, in unskilled hands, bathos. Happily, Green is able to transcend such pitfalls in his best and most ambitious novel to date. Beautifully conceived and executed, this story artfully examines the largest possible considerations—life, love, and death—with sensitivity, intelligence, honesty, and integrity. In the process, Green shows his readers what it is like to live with cancer, sometimes no more than a breath or a heartbeat away from death. But it is life that Green spiritedly celebrates here, even while acknowledging its pain. In its every aspect, this novel is a triumph. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Green’s promotional genius is a force of nature. After announcing he would sign all 150,000 copies of this title’s first print run, it shot to the top of Amazon and Barnes & Noble’s best-seller lists six months before publication. Grades 9-12. --Michael Cart

Product Details

  • File Size: 501 KB
  • Print Length: 337 pages
  • Publisher: Dutton Children's (January 10, 2012)
  • Sold by: Penguin Publishing
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B005ZOBNOI
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Enabled
  • Lending: Not Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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The story and characters are well crafted and written for beautifully. Chloe  |  761 reviewers made a similar statement
I would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys, as I do, young adult fiction reads. Karen Rogers  |  526 reviewers made a similar statement
At times this book made me cry and at other times it made me laugh out loud. Lisa Rainsford  |  601 reviewers made a similar statement
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608 of 651 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Young Adult Fiction at its finest January 10, 2012
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Although his brother Hank might argue that the real "fault in our stars" is that our sun contains limited amounts of hydrogen, which will cause it to eventually run out of the only fuel source capable of supporting its mass against gravity, thereby expanding until its outer shell envelops our tiny planet and consumes it in a fiery death, I think it is more likely that John Green's title refers to a line from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar:

"The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings." Caesar (I, ii, 140-141)

What does this quote mean and how does it relate to a novel about two kids dying of cancer? I'll explore that below.

The Fault in Our Stars is the story of two 16-year-olds who meet at a cancer support group. Hazel Lancaster, the narrator, is afflicted with terminal thyroid cancer which has ravaged her lungs enough to necessitate the use of an oxygen tank wherever she goes. It is during a support meeting that she is introduced to Augustus Waters, whose leg was claimed by a malignant bone tumor and who soon becomes the object of her affection.

When I learned of the plot of this novel, I was initially a bit turned off. I'm reminded of a comment a friend made when I asked her if she wanted to go see the movie 50/50, upon which she exclaimed "who wants to go see a movie about people dying of cancer?" I couldn't come up with a satisfactory response, and we settled for a two-hour movie about the competitive world of robot fighting (which still caused me to shed a tear). So why would anyone, especially young adults, want to read about "cancer kids?" As Hazel herself states in the novel, "cancer books suck.
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390 of 419 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Book I've Read in Years January 10, 2012
By Alex F
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I've read a lot of books, but this is one of my all time favorites; that's not something I can say about very many books. I'll make it simple; I'm a fifteen year old teenage boy. When I usually read a book, I toss it aside and move on to the next one. And, like most teenage boys, I am not very emotional. At the end of this book, I cried. Not just a few tears either; I was full on bawling my eyes out. That's how good this book is. I promise you, unless you have a heart of stone, you will love this book.
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185 of 224 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Not Believable Teenagers. May 31, 2012
Format:Hardcover
It seems like every less-than-five-star review needs to begin with the author's assurance of being a Nerdfighter and loving John Green, lest it be downvoted into oblivion. Therefore let me begin by saying that yes, I am a Nerdfighter, and I watch John Green videos religiously. However, TFIOS fell a little flat for me. Most points I want to make have already been addressed, but I still wanted to stand with my fellow three-star-ers.

My main problem with the book is that the characters are just not believable. They do not speak like teenagers. They do not even handle situations like teenagers do. So many interactions between Gus and Hazel are interactions which, plain and simple, just would not happen between real, emotional, scared, awkward, virgin teenagers, let alone ones with cancer who have been socially cut off for much of their lives. Their transactions are so smooth and painless with just the barest occasional tinge of awkwardness, when most of them ought to be drenched. Augustus's flirting comes to mind as a prime example. It is funny and witty and entertaining and it is also the flirting of an experienced 25 year old. Neither character appears to be a three-dimensional relatable teenager, and that's a shame, because creating a believable teenage romance is what Green is trying to do.

Neither Hazel, Augustus, Hazel's mom, or Hazel's dad appear to have their own seperate identity. They all have the same voice and thought pattern and high intelligence level as their creator does. Hazel is John Green. Augustus is John Green. Hazel's mom and dad are John Green. Isaac is John Green. (Now, I know that obviously all of an author's characters are going to reflect bits of themselves, but it shouldn't be so obvious.
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132 of 159 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars It's been an emotional evening. January 10, 2012
By Meghan
Format:Hardcover
This is almost entirely just copy and pasted from an immediate reaction post I made on a friend's Facebook wall, and I would have written a separate review but I think there are already more than enough for everyone to see why they need to read it.
"I think I need to reread it; I know I sped through some parts too fast to fully appreciate them. It was...more than I expected, already, though.
For a few days, I was kind of secretly anxious as hell. When I got it and actually held it in my hand, I was really excited but also afraid it wouldn't live up to the seemingly unfair hype we gave it. I mean, we didn't know that much about it anyway. He had an idea of who two of the characters were. We knew what the cover looked like. We knew it'd be autographed.
We just had faith in this fantastic writer. And....it was well-placed. I laughed, I cried, I was cliche as anything. Whatever man. It was a profoundly /good/ book, and the characters were remarkable, and I can say with no hesitation that it was the best book that I have read in a very very long time, and definitely the best he has published, ever. I hope to see students studying these in English someday. And I'll be damned if it doesn't earn him the right to attach more stickers to the book covers, this time shiny and metallic and very very award-y."
Buy it. It's fantastic.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is amazing
I love the book!!! It messes with my feeling, it's just beautiful, LOVE IT! PERFECT, JUST PERFECT. you need to read it
Published 2 hours ago by gloria sorbo
5.0 out of 5 stars Bought it for the author, loved it for the writing
I laughed, I cried, I read it in a single sitting until 4.30am because I just couldn't stop.
If you don't think you need this book in your life, you're wrong.
Published 5 hours ago by H. Lewis
5.0 out of 5 stars finally a real book! no vampires or werewolves just real kids with...
I laughed, cried, laughed then cried again! I instantly loved Hazel, she was funny to a fault! She was real. I recommend this book to anyone and everyone. Read more
Published 6 hours ago by Lynae Sidwell
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Although it is very heartbreaking, this book is worth the pain. The Fault in Our Stars will keep your eyes glued to the pages with every addicting word.
Published 7 hours ago by Hannah Bradley
5.0 out of 5 stars The Fault in our Stars
Excellent, quick read. It deals with an interesting concept. This book will appeal to young adult readers and the young at heart.
Published 9 hours ago by Linda Reynolds
4.0 out of 5 stars A sad but sweet story.
I had no idea what this book was about but I bought it because it was a New York Times best seller... I cried too many times but kept reading. It was very touching. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST BOOK EVER
I would really Recommend this book to anyone who likes to read. It
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Published 11 hours ago by ANONYMOUS
1.0 out of 5 stars Stupid, bad writing, and juvenile.
I can't begin to say how much I disliked this book... I finally stopped trying to get through it about half way through. Read more
Published 12 hours ago by Melissa Nichols
5.0 out of 5 stars Forever My Favorite
Having read most John Green books, I can say that this by far is my favorite. This isn't some predictable, typical teen book; it's quirky and whimsical and you will become overly... Read more
Published 14 hours ago by Darma Bijukchhe
4.0 out of 5 stars Loved this book
Loved everything about this book. A quick, addictive read that you'll absolutely love. We have 13 members in a book club that gave no negative reviews.
Published 18 hours ago by Rach
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John Green is a New York Times bestselling author who has received numerous awards, including both the Printz Medal and a Printz Honor. John is also the cocreator (with his brother, Hank) of the popular video blog Brotherhood 2.0, which has been watched more than 30 million times by Nerdfighter fans all over the globe. John Green lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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