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Book Review: The Fault In Our Stars
May. 8th, 2013 07:55 pmThe Fault In Our Stars by John Green
Basically, John Green is an incredible human.
For those unacquainted with his astonishing awesome, he has a metric fuckton of online videos, the only ones with which I am actually familiar being the Crash Course series, which are all educational and fantastically funny.
As spoiler free as this can get:
The Fault In Our Stars is a YA book about two older teens with cancer who meet at a support group, bond over a book they both decide is perfect, travel to Amsterdam to track down its reclusive author, and fall in love with each other. Other stuff happens which I will not give away. This isn't really exactly a "love story" book. The love story happens, it's central to the plot, but this isn't a YA Romance Novel. It's a for-all-ages-over-12-or-so straightforward Good Book.
Despite the whole Cancer Thing, it is not depressing. It is staggeringly beautiful, triumphantly well-written, honest without being maudlin, tragic without being hopeless, and real without being cruel.
It is also, at around 300 pages, very short. It is possible to finish in one day. I did it in three, because I was reading at work and reading slowly. It's the kind of book you want to read slowly. It's worth taking the time to take it in like that.
Bottom Line: It is a book I think is Important to read. Highly recommended. 5 stars.
Basically, John Green is an incredible human.
For those unacquainted with his astonishing awesome, he has a metric fuckton of online videos, the only ones with which I am actually familiar being the Crash Course series, which are all educational and fantastically funny.
As spoiler free as this can get:
The Fault In Our Stars is a YA book about two older teens with cancer who meet at a support group, bond over a book they both decide is perfect, travel to Amsterdam to track down its reclusive author, and fall in love with each other. Other stuff happens which I will not give away. This isn't really exactly a "love story" book. The love story happens, it's central to the plot, but this isn't a YA Romance Novel. It's a for-all-ages-over-12-or-so straightforward Good Book.
Despite the whole Cancer Thing, it is not depressing. It is staggeringly beautiful, triumphantly well-written, honest without being maudlin, tragic without being hopeless, and real without being cruel.
It is also, at around 300 pages, very short. It is possible to finish in one day. I did it in three, because I was reading at work and reading slowly. It's the kind of book you want to read slowly. It's worth taking the time to take it in like that.
Bottom Line: It is a book I think is Important to read. Highly recommended. 5 stars.
