For many people The Fault in Our Stars represents a glimpse into a different world. They don't "relate" but their "eyes are opened." I spent the first two-thirds of the book wondering how John Green managed to retell my life. I deal with chronic illness and disability, not cancer, but so many of Hazel's emotions and interactions spoke to my experiences. There's a scene in the book where she goes to the Ann Frank Hais. Her physical struggle there, and her justification for working through it, took me immediately back to my own fight to climb those ladder-like stairs.
Encountering a book written by a non-disabled person that captures the nuances of disability is an incredibly rare occurrence, but I found it in The Fault in Our Stars. I highly recommend it to people who don't have experience with disability, but I recommend it more to those who do.
This is the first book by john green that I have read and i didn't take long to understand as to why is this guy praised by millions on twitter.
ReplyDeleteThe author has a refreshingly amA-A-Azing style of writing and the skillful pour of words and expressions on each page makes the intertwined nature of love and loss seem honest....yet practical,romantic.....yet uncomplicated,heartfelt...yet not exaggerated.
LOVE & AFFECTION IN A NEW DIMENSION.The best part is that even if you can't relate yourself to the book yet it will entertain you till the very end and teach you something.
THANKS Hazel,Augustus,Isaac,Peter Houten,John Green and even Sergeant Mayhem.