TFioS

[Samantha]

For those who have read The Fault in our Stars and want to talk about it without spoiling the book for those who haven't read it.

I've seen a few people wanting to talk about it, so here you go!

[Red McFace]

My Mam was really worried about me 'cause I was just reading on the couch balling my eyes out.  LOL

[Sasha]

I really love this book! When I first got it I said "I'm ignoring reality until I finish TFiOS". I did too, read it all in one go. Like everyone else I cried my eyes out, and a little bit hated John for the rest of the day for kill Gus....I did think Hazel was going to die, but I didnt really think it was going to end midsentence... Now i cant stop thinking about how everything IS going to end, at some point. and how everyone does want to remembered...

[Samantha]

What was everyone's favorite/least favorite part of the book? I loved the Amsterdam visit. Their date was so romantic!

[Alyssa Rae]

Augustus' "Last Good Day" was the most beautiful and awful thing I have ever read, and the eulogies that Hazel and Isaac delivered broke my heart... but damn if that chapter wasn't perfectly written.

[Avery Bookout]

After reading The Fault in Our Stars, I now refer back to it constantly. I've never really done that with any other book. This book really enhanced my outlook on the world and is making me appreciate... everything more. For anyone who hasn't read this book and loves love and is not afraid to cry, read it now!

[Hillary]

I defiantly just found another character in another book named Hazel Grace ____. I must say John Greens Hazel is much better. The book  is called Glimpse. But I think she is called Zellie not Hazel.

[Samantha]

I see what you're saying, I think. These characters have their good points and bad points, I agree. But I think that's what makes them so real and relatable. They are not perfect and I think the readers see that. That's one of the reasons I think people like the book so much.

[Samantha]

I am going to admitt, for a while I didn't like Hazel. She was smart and insightful, but, like Augustus said, she became her disease. I like Gus because he brought her out of that rut. I guess I'm just a sucker for that sort of story :) But, yeah, he is a sort of annoying character sometimes

[Danno]

John has actually talked about this... though it's unfortunate that you actually were put off by the... Augustus affectation.  the truth is though, that a lot of people, particularly teens, and especially the ones who are really involved in school activities and/or with the popular crowd act like they are somehow more or other than they really are...or at least seem that way. 

[Andrea Broman]

While I'm sorry you were put off by Augustus's behavior, I wouldn't have him written any other way. He felt like a person, and like a teenager, to me. I feel like what you called "trying too hard to be someone he didn't have the life experience to be yet" was a natural development of his character, because he does have this horrible disease, and maybe acting like he does have the experience to know these things distracted him from the possibility that he might not get to. I think this part of his personality is just revealing another way that people can react to having such a terrible disease.

[Chloe Amber]

Anyone wish that your generation could speak to one another like Augustus and Hazel speak to each other?

[Neha Rahman]

If only. 

It seems now that the only intelligent conversation I have comes from 1. my best friend or 2. the ning (as always) or 3. my own head. 

I want an Augustus, minus the ending bit. Then again, even a temporary Augustus would be a great one. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by Augustus Waters.