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The Fault In Our Stars | 14/1/2012 - 15/1/2012

Flawless. John Green is completely flawless. You know you read some books, are you go away thinking that it was a good book, and you enjoyed it, and you wouldn’t mind reading something like that again. Then there are the books, which after you finish reading them, you feel that your view on the world has shifted, just a little bit. Those are the books that John Green writes.

Seriously, after hearing him read the first chapter on the live youtube stream he did, I knew I had to read it, because it just sounded brilliant. And it was.

I think what I loved most about this book was that when I started reading it, I was so sure how it was going to end, and then what actually happened kind of hit me off guard and completely knocked me. I love books that surprise you, and this definitely did that. Oh, and of course there were tears. There were lots of tears.

Overall I think this might actually be my favourite John Green book so far, because while reading it I just felt so connected to Hazel, and I could see her pain and her getting annoyed, and she was just a completely brilliant person.

5/5

An Abundance of Katherines - John Green | 19/7/2011 - 23/7/2011

I’ve already read two other of John Green’s books and he’s an amazing author, so I don’t know why I only just got around to reading this. Anyway, I was very excited to read it because I’ve been wanting to for a while.

I think one of the reasons I love John’s books are because they’re so full of philosophy and outlooks on life; life lessons and how peoples views on the world can change. After finishing Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns I came away with that feeling of a book almost changing me, but I didn’t get that with this one. I still thought it was an amazing book though, and I loved the way how Colin always tried to find a logical reason behind everything, because in a way that’s slightly what I do too. I think it showed that he was the kind of person who felt they always had to know everything, or at least they wanted to, and so he almost matured by the end when he realised that love wasn’t something you could necessarily graph.

I also think that Lindsey showed how people act totally differently in front of different friends and groups. She showed that what she said about herself wasn’t strictly true, and she was a character that I actually really liked. Personally though my favourite character was Hassan, because he was funny, he was lighthearted, he didn’t care too much and he looked after Colin and was a good friend to him. I think they had an amazing friendship in the way that they could talk to one another about things and didn’t act like dicks about it.

One of the main things about this book that I enjoyed so much, because I’m a massive nerd, was the math. I feel that a lot of people who read it (who wouldn’t be so interested in math) might have just skipped the graphs/appendix, but I found it really interesting and I kind of wonder if it would actually work in a real life situation at all. 

All in all, I really enjoyed it; now I just need Will Grayson Will Grayson!

4.5/5

Here’s the original post by John Green. He said that he’ll be signing every preorder. Also, don’t forget to add the book to your shelves on Goodreads.

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The Fault in Our Stars is the title of my new book, which you can preorder here.

(The publication date on that page is wrong, although I don’t yet know how wrong.)

The title is inspired by a famous line from Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. The nobleman Cassius says to Brutus, “The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

Also, I am live on YouTube right now discussing the title and other things.

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