"The Fault in our Stars" by John Green
"The Fault in our Stars" was the Book that we read as a class for Humanities second semester. I thought having both read the book previously (under the Freshman year Tab: Movie Proposal Poster) and having watched the movie would have made me more emotionally prepared to deal with the book the second time around. I was miserably wrong. In fact, reading the book for a second time might have been harder than reading it the first time, because I knew how the book was going to end, and that turned even the happy, romantic scenes painful. During one of our whiteboard discussions, one of my classmates wrote, "No matter how many times I read the book, I can never help but falling in love with Augustus Waters all over again, only to have him break my heart again." I wish I would have written that comment, because, while I do always mistakenly fall in love with Augustus Waters again, I more fall in love with the love between Hazel and Gus. When John Green breaks both of those things with one swing, he successfully breaks me and turns me into a walking mucus-and-tear-ball.
This is one of the defining works of young adult literature from the early 21st century, and so I employe anyone who has not read this book to please read the book. If you have read the book but haven't watched the movie, watch the movie too. If you have done both, at some point read the book again. All the emotions will surface once again.
Golden Line: "You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do get some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."
This is one of the defining works of young adult literature from the early 21st century, and so I employe anyone who has not read this book to please read the book. If you have read the book but haven't watched the movie, watch the movie too. If you have done both, at some point read the book again. All the emotions will surface once again.
Golden Line: "You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do get some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."