The Fault in Our Stars: To be Seen on Screen Soon!

I believe most of you have already heard the news of John Green's much appreciated creation The Fault in Our Stars being adapted as a movie with the same title and I firmly believe you're just as excited as I am! Aren't you? That's why I thought I'd share my excitement with you, my readers through sharing the information I managed to gather about this much talked and book-to-movie adaptation.

Hazel and Gus are two teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them on a journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous given that Hazel's other constant companion is an oxygen tank, Gus jokes about his prosthetic leg, and they met and fell in love at a cancer support group.

Shailene Woodley as Hazel Grace  Lancaster

Ansel Elgort as Augustus Waters

Nat Wolff as Isaac

Laura Dern as Mrs. Lancaster

Sam Trammell as Mr. Lancaster

Mike Birbiglia as Patrick

Willem Dafoe as Peter Van Houten

Emily Peachey as Monica

And the best part is JOHN GREEN himself will be cast in the movie (for a role which is still unknown)!!!!!!

Director: Josh Boone

Produced by: Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen

Written by: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber

Cinematographer: Ben Richardson

Studio: Temple Hill Entertainment

Release Date: June 6th, 2014

Title: The Fault in Our Stars

Author: John Green

Publishers: Dutton Books

Date of Publication: January 10th, 2012

Genre: YA, Contemporary

Format: Hardcover

Length: 313 pages

My Source: Ebook

Synopsis

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

Here's My Review of the book

Lastly, a personal note: I don't know whether you'll agree with me or not but I don't like books being made as movies. It basically kills the story, the essence of the book, in most of the cases. Whenever I've gone watching a movie after reading the book its based on, I've been hugely disappointed. I think if you're doing a film based on a book, you should at least keep the story intact but mostly they improvise it so much that ends up changing the story itself. So I earnestly hope the same doesn't happen with TFIOS. This book is very close to my heart and one of my all time favourites and it'd be very unfair to the book if they do such treatments with the movie. I hope the movie turns out to be just as great as the book is!

Review: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Title: The Fault in Our Stars

Author: John Green

Publishers: Dutton Books

Date of Publication: January 10th, 2012

Genre: YA, Contemporary

Format: Hardcover

Length: 313 pages

My Source: Ebook

Synopsis

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

Review

Hazel is a 16 year old girl with stage IV thyroid cancer, and has been living with an oxygen tank since she was first diagnosed at 12. She realizes she is going to die, but she is on a drug that is keeping the tumors at bay. At a support group meeting she meets hottie Augustus Waters, who is in remission. They immediately hit it off and change each others lives drastically.

The Fault in Our Stars is another beautifully written book by John Green. A few months ago John made a video on his youtube channel, and in this video he read the first two chapter of this book. I was hooked instantly. I wanted to know everything there was to know about Hazel and Augustus. I'm not going to say that this was the most original cancer book out there, but it felt more personal.

Let's start with the characters. John Green wrote the same exact character over and over again in his previous books. This is one complaint I've always had, but you won't find that here. Hazel is no Alaska Young, she is no Margot. She's just Hazel, and she's lovely. Same with Augustus. He's unlike all of John Greens male characters, and I adore him.

There is simply one complaint I have about this book. John needs to make his 17 year old characters sound more like 17 year old teens than 35 year old men. Most of the dialog in this book and sweet and enjoyable, but then the characters come out with these crazy words and there are other ways to show your characters are intelligent people without always making them spout out these weird, random words. In all honesty it's a bit annoying, but it doesn't bother me too much, because I understand that his younger readers will build a much better vocabulary if they pay attention. Also, his book is full of quotable lines as you can clearly see from everyone else's reviews. 

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. John is a phenomenal writer. He's great at building suspense when needed, and also at hitting you in the gut with a healthy dose of raw emotion. Almost everyone I know who has read this book cried. At least a little. He also throws in lots of humor which is usually appreciated to break up sad moments.

As far as John writing a female voice for the first time, I thought he did a good job. This book wasn't life-changing for me, but I easily could see how others could be affected by this book in an astounding way. It tackles cancer, death, loss of sight, loss of loved ones, love, thoughts of the afterlife and shows vividly from one girls perspective what it may feel like to know you are dying. This book may not suit everyone, but if you don't have issues reading about those things I would recommend this book to you. It was quite depressing at times, but I'm sure you would know that just by reading the synopsis. 

About The Author

John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. In January 2012, his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars, was met with wide critical acclaim, unprecedented in Green's career. The praise included rave reviews in Time Magazine and The New York Times, on NPR, and from award-winning author Markus Zusak. The book also topped the New York Times Children's Paperback Bestseller list for several weeks. Green has also coauthored a book with David Levithan called Will Grayson, Will Grayson, published in 2010. The film rights for all his books, with the exception of Will Grayson Will Grayson, have been optioned to major Hollywood Studios.

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Review: Paper Towns by John Green

How I came to know about this book: I learnt about it in a group of Goodreads. You can check out the group here.

Format of the book: Ebook (epub version).

Genre: Young Adult/ Contemporary

Length of the Book: 305 pages (for hardcover).

A short synopsis:  Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life - dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows.

After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues - and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer Q gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew. (Goodreads Description)

Characters of the book: Quentin Jacobsen or Q, Margo Roth Spiegelman, Ben, Radar, Laecy Becca, Jase, Chuck Parson, Angela, Parents of Q and Margo and a detective.

My Review: 


I started reading this book as part of a group read in Goodreads and so I'd first grant my thanks to the moderators of the group for making me pick up this amazing book.

As soon as I started the book, I fell in love with the plot almost immediately. The book has 3 parts and I'll try to summarize my review in three separate parts.

Part one:

The book features Q as the narrator. This part of the book is absolutely brilliant. It makes you familiar to the characters and describes their life as the students of Senior year in the High School. It  has a funny side as well. Ben being called as Bloody Ben, Radar's crazy obsession with Omnictionary, Chuck Parson as a bully, the bonding of Q, Ben and Radar- everything has separate aspects and are described beautifully.

And to talk about Margo, in-spite of being neighbours, Q and Margo don't hang out together. Q knew Margo loved mysteries from one incident that had taken place when they were 9 years old and thus he says: "Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one."
The night Margo and Q spent together was amusing. Margo and her ways of doing things, I've loved them immensely.

Par two:
As Q believes Margo has left clues for him (before disappearing) to find her, he does everything possible to do that. While progressing in this searching agenda Q discovers and rediscovers Margo and makes out her reason for leaving and somehow Margo's disappearance made Q understand a few things about life, about himself, like :"It's so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world...Leaving feels too good, once you leave."
But I think this part was a bit too much dragged and thus boring. The searching procedure and the descriptions of Prom night was too long for me (specially because the main story has nothing to do with that directly). Things could have been cut short but well..

P.S.- I even spent a few hours in my college library reading Whitman's "Song of Myself" thinking that I might find some clue about Margo's whereabouts. Unfortunately, I couldn't finish it. :-P

Part three:
This again could be written precisely, I mean the description of each hour wasn't really necessary.
Anyway the end, though a bit depressing, was genuine. Nothing dramatic happens and the characters stick to their own ideas. That is what I love about the book. Somehow I knew Margo couldn't be dead, so in a way it was kinda predictable.
Besides I loved the lucid writing of the author. The portrayal of the characters is beautiful. I learnt a thing that is every person is like himself, and you can't expect others to be like you, everyone has their own ways.

In short, it was an enjoyable read throughout and I recommend it.

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P.S- This is my first book review on this blog, so obviously I'm excited about it. I'd love to hear from you all. Opinions are wholeheartedly welcome. :)