Let me just start out by saying that The Fault in our really does define a generation of teenagers that want nothing more than to be treated like everyone else. We are all different but that doesn’t mean we have to treat each other differently.
The Fault in Our Stars is breath-taking and amazing and there really is nothing like it. I know I should be reviewing a horror book or something because of my blog and I know this post feels so out of place but I must say that this book was, wait…nix that, IS amazing.
TFIOS (the fault in our stars) is a story about Hazel Grace Lancaster, a young teen with stage IV lung cancer and an impeccably smart and humorous attitude. She is forced to go to support group and there meets Augustus Waters, another young teen with cancer and a unique fear of oblivion. Together (throughout the book) they become close friends and eventually fall in love.
Like every teen/adult that saw the movie or read the book by the awesomeness that is John Greene, I cried. Literally at every twist or turn of this great novel I cried and at every happy unique little moment of Hazel and Augustus’ tale I had giggled like a school girl. Honest to God I did that as a man and I hold no shame because this book is worth that. Of course I am paraphrasing here (there was a little more than tears shed and girly giggles going on then).
However, what really got me was the uniqueness of it all. John Greene had managed to take concepts we had never even thought of in everyday life and put them into one of the most heart-warming tales of our generation. From metaphors about smoking to the crazy but interesting obsession with An Imperial Affliction (and Sargent Mayhem of course) this book really gives you the sort of perspective that no other book or movie has been able to grasp.
Over all there is one quote or two that are my favorite within this book, both are from Augustus Waters:
“I never lit one. It’s a metaphor; you see you put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, [puts cigarette in mouth] – but you don’t give it the power to kill you… a metaphor.” – Augustus Waters/John Greene (T.F.I.O.S) 2011
This was from when he first talked to hazel and since then I have had high hopes that smoking in this country will be brought down to a simple concept of just having an un-lit metaphor between your teeth with confidence that it will NOT kill you unless you give it the power to.
Here’s the second favorite quote from Augustus:
“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.” – Augustus Waters/John Greene (T.F.I.O.S) 2011
AHHH! (Little girl giggles activate!) seriously I know some of my guy followers won’t understand but guys remember it doesn’t kill to have a bit of a feminine side. 😉
This quote took place in a place of which I shall not tell you, mainly because I hate spoiler alerts. But yeah he was telling Hazel how much he loved her so yeah; I did in fact feel the warm fuzziness consume me at that point. The rest is for you to read though.
John Greene wrote this amazing book and taught us all that some infinities are bigger than other infinities and that we should appreciate what we have because Hazel and Augustus (though they are fictional but feel so real) went through this hell and had proven to us that someone with a short life can make that into a long one.
For all those who read the book you are awesome and I feel what you went through while reading this; and for those who haven’t… then go friggin read it! (lol)
And I promise you; that every time you shed a small tear or giggle like a little school girl you will remember this book. You will be happy to have read this book. And more importantly, you will have been happy to have peeked into the lives of Hazel and Augustus.
When I read the ending of this book I cried and even toward the end when Hazel didn’t even say it, I found myself saying only one word. One word that would eventually mean an infinity to many, and that word was: “Okay”.
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– Orlando Chacon of “Orlando S.C. : The Burned Chronicles and Horror Fiction”
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