But this iteration is smart, witty, profoundly sad, and full of questions worth asking, even those like 'Why me?' that have no answer. So maybe there's not a new formula at work so much as a gender swap. Come to think of it, Augustus is pretty damn hot. There is a road trip%E2%80%94Augustus, whose greatest fear is not of death but that his life won't amount to anything, uses his 'Genie Foundation' wish to take Hazel to Amsterdam to meet the author of her favorite book. The connection is instant, and a (doomed) romance blossoms. The beloved, 1 global bestseller by John Green, author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and. In an effort to get her to have a life (she withdrew from school at 13), her parents insist she attend a support group at a local church, which Hazel characterizes in an older-than-her-years voice as a 'rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness.' Despite Hazel's reluctant presence, it's at the support group that she meets Augustus Waters, a former basketball player who has lost a leg to cancer. When Gus scores an invitation to meet the reclusive author, he and Hazel embark on the adventure of their brief lives. Narrator Hazel Grace Lancaster, 16, is (miraculously) alive thanks to an experimental drug that is keeping her thyroid cancer in check. His fourth novel departs from that successful formula to even greater success: this is his best work yet. The movie adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars was released in Summer 2014 starring Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, and Nat Wolff, and directed by Josh Boone. Hazel meets Augustus Waters, who lost a leg.

If there's a knock on John Green (and it's more of a light tap considering he's been recognized twice by the Printz committee) it's that he keeps writing the same book: nerdy guy in unrequited love with impossibly gorgeous girl, add road trip. thefaultinourstars Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t01053s30 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Pages 173 Ppi 300 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4. The Fault in Our Stars Summary T he Fault in Our Stars is a young adult novel narrated by Hazel Grace Lancaster, a teenager with thyroid cancer.

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