Name Of The Book - "The Fault In Our Stars"
Pages - 313
Author - John Green
Rating - *****
First of all, i'm not much of a reader but ya can read if something good is recommended to me. Two of my friends said to me, that you should read this book. So, as i got free time to read the book. As soon as i looked at the front cover page of the book, nice-cool cover page in blue with "The Fault In Our Stars" written with chalk. John Green has written other books like "Looking For Alaska" & "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" (with David Luithan). But, his good time or should i say, success time started with "The Fault In Our Stars" which has garnered worldwide success. It became so successful that soon a movie of the same name "The Fault In Our Stars" is releasing worldwide.
As, it was my first novel of "John Green" that i was reading, but when i googled his name & read about him, i got that, he writes novels for Young-Adults & many of them end in tragedy. So, i knew that this book would end in a tragedy. But, here is the "Awesome" part in his books, whether it ends in a tragedy, it does not deepen you into depression but you come to see life in a way & make you feel good about the things, people you have in your life. John Green writes "for" readers not rather "to" readers.
The story starts with a young seventeen year girl, Hazel, full name, Hazel Grace Lancaster, who is suffering from Cancer, who tries to live her life normally besides cancer. She rarely left her house, spent a awful amount of time on the bed, read the same book over & over. She goes to a "Support Group" which she didn't liked, in which all the people who are suffering from cancer & tell about their lives & their story. She has a friend there, "Isaac" which has some sort of eye-cancer, one eye had been cut out when he was a kid & wore some sort of glasses which made his fake eyes, humongous. The life is going normal with support group telling everything about how Jesus loved Cancer patients & they were most close to him. But, the story picks up an interesting journey, when she meets a guy named "Augustus Waters", who has come to Support Group on the request of Isaac & he fears "Oblivion". To which "Hazel" say the most awesomest lines i have ever come across in any of the books, i've ever read :
"Maybe that time is coming soon & may be it is millions of years away, but even
if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time
before organisms experienced consciousness, & there will be time after. And if
the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
God knows that's what everyone else does"
After you see & read these epic lines, the journey goes through the timeline of Boy falling for the Girl, Boy starts loving the girl & the journey of Girl falling in love with the Boy. But, here you see the genius mind of John Green, he just doesn't tell you the story but makes you a part of the story. He tell you the story from girl's point-of-view, which is actually his first book that is based on a girl's perspective. Hazel, is a smart girl, fierce, practice & a little bit pessimist about her life. But, still when you read about her, you fall in "LOVE" with her, I did & i would do anything in this world to have a girl like her in my life. Augustus Waters, is a dream-guy for any girl living in this planet. He looks cool, awesome & looks madly in love with Hazel.
When the story picks up after "Hazel" meets "Augustus", those little talks between them, Augustus's driving, he granting his wish for Hazel & took her to Amsterdam to meet her favorite author, Peter Van Houten, author of "An Imperial Affliction". Well, i won't go beyond this point as it will be spoilers for those who have not read the book. Green, throughout the novel give subtle indications about the tragic ending, when you see the chapters being too short in the end. Green, tells you about the characters & helps you in understand them & he makes you think that if you were in their place, you would probably feel the same as the characters
At the end, there were little tears in my eyes, but i felt a huge amount of pain in my heart. The book is Touching, Heart-Melting, Emotional & Some-what disheartening in the end, yet "It is is the best book, i've ever read & will always be #1 in the books i've ever read. You can get this book from Flipkart & Amazon.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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