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Topic: The Fault in Our Stars...
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traicionada
♀ 10310
Member # 10310 |  Posted: 9:03 PM, March 4th (Sunday), 2012 |     |
Has anyone read it?  I like John Green but I'm on the fence based on the reviews 
Real love is a CHOICE, NOT a feeling...
Posts: 3366 | Registered: Apr 2006 | From: Dallas, Texas |
metamorphisis
♀ 12041
Member # 12041 |  Posted: 4:42 AM, March 5th (Monday), 2012 | |
This is dd's absolute favourite author. She loves all things John Green. FWIW she adored the book, put it on my nightstand and has nagged me daily to read it. 
“We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are.”... Anais Nin
Posts: 46014 | Registered: Sep 2006 |
metamorphisis
♀ 12041
Member # 12041 | | Posted: 9:07 AM, March 5th (Monday), 2012 | |
Oh.. and I got her a signed copy 
I asked her again this morning and her advice is "READ IT!!!!".
She's very well read and a very smart cookie, but she is 15, which sometimes inspires a loyalty that isn't always rational. So it could be a fabulous book or she could be biased.
“We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are.”... Anais Nin
Posts: 46014 | Registered: Sep 2006 |
traicionada
♀ 10310
Member # 10310 | | Posted: 12:09 PM, March 6th (Tuesday), 2012 | |
Does she follow him in youtube? The Green brothers have their own channel 
Real love is a CHOICE, NOT a feeling...
Posts: 3366 | Registered: Apr 2006 | From: Dallas, Texas |
metamorphisis
♀ 12041
Member # 12041 | | Posted: 12:12 PM, March 6th (Tuesday), 2012 | |
You bet your boots she does. She's a nerdfighter 
“We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are.”... Anais Nin
Posts: 46014 | Registered: Sep 2006 |
traicionada
♀ 10310
Member # 10310 | | Posted: 5:14 AM, March 7th (Wednesday), 2012 | |
Aww! John read chapters 1 & 2 live... The 15 year old in me has a huge crush on his 34 year old self!  Someone should call my parents...Then again, the real 15 year old me had a literary crush on Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Frank Kafka
Real love is a CHOICE, NOT a feeling...
Posts: 3366 | Registered: Apr 2006 | From: Dallas, Texas |
metamorphisis
♀ 12041
Member # 12041 | | Posted: 7:03 AM, March 7th (Wednesday), 2012 | |
So cute. You know I am slightly pleased that my daughter looks up to slightly nerdy, extremely intelligent , kind authors. No rappers or media bad boys thank god .
She told me to tell you "DFTBA".
“We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are.”... Anais Nin
Posts: 46014 | Registered: Sep 2006 |
traicionada
♀ 10310
Member # 10310 | | Posted: 12:34 PM, March 7th (Wednesday), 2012 | |
DFTBA
Always! BTW, staying away from bad boys is an art that requires tons of practice so starting at an early age helps 
Like the Greens will say the Venn Diagram of guys you don't want to date and guys who don't like smart girls, is a circle
Real love is a CHOICE, NOT a feeling...
Posts: 3366 | Registered: Apr 2006 | From: Dallas, Texas |
ladyvorkosigan
♀ 8283
Member # 8283 | | Posted: 4:49 PM, March 7th (Wednesday), 2012 | |
Sigh.
Perfect man is perfect.
It nagged him, in particular, that none of the girls he’d known so far had given him a sense of unalloyed triumph.
Posts: 14226 | Registered: Sep 2005 | From: Florida |
dreamlife
♀ 8142
Member # 8142 | | Posted: 6:24 PM, March 7th (Wednesday), 2012 | |
First I've heard of it, but the title is catchy and cool!
~XWH told me what I wanted to hear but he always did whatever he wanted to do~
Posts: 25439 | Registered: Sep 2005 |
traicionada
♀ 10310
Member # 10310 | | Posted: 12:42 PM, March 8th (Thursday), 2012 | |
I'm reading for IRL Book Club and needless to say most of the females of the group are on board but a few of the guys are struggling their way through If you ask me, they're jealous of Gus because he's awesome 
Real love is a CHOICE, NOT a feeling...
Posts: 3366 | Registered: Apr 2006 | From: Dallas, Texas |
metamorphisis
♀ 12041
Member # 12041 | | Posted: 5:22 PM, March 8th (Thursday), 2012 | |
I keep reading dd the posts from "My friend in my book club forum" .
Whenever I get half way through your sentences she says "Yes!!". And to this one she made a sad face and said.. "I adore Gus. Gus is good."
OK dammit. I'll read the book.
“We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are.”... Anais Nin
Posts: 46014 | Registered: Sep 2006 |
traicionada
♀ 10310
Member # 10310 | | Posted: 7:58 PM, March 8th (Thursday), 2012 | |
Yay! You have been assimilated
Real love is a CHOICE, NOT a feeling...
Posts: 3366 | Registered: Apr 2006 | From: Dallas, Texas |
Spirit13
♀ 31758
Member # 31758 | | Posted: 4:54 PM, March 13th (Tuesday), 2012 | |
I just finished it today. I liked it, but was overall kind of "meh" about it. It seemed a bit too melodramatic for me. Too much teenager, overthinking, angst....
Halfway through, I thought I was going to love it but then it got less and less appealing to me. I was glad when it ended.
Men were deceivers ever; one foot in sea and one on shore, to one thing constant never.
Posts: 620 | Registered: Apr 2011 | From: Midwest |
metamorphisis
♀ 12041
Member # 12041 | | Posted: 5:55 PM, March 14th (Wednesday), 2012 | |
Spirit, isn't he a young adult writer. That's kind of his target market from what I understand so I'm not surprised about teenager vibes in a teenager book.
I've been sick and haven't read it yet.
“We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are.”... Anais Nin
Posts: 46014 | Registered: Sep 2006 |
traicionada
♀ 10310
Member # 10310 | | Posted: 5:26 AM, March 15th (Thursday), 2012 | |
S13,
John writes for YA which in the book world means 14 to 23 and since mentally I am still 16, it's all good. Then again, I manage doctors and nurses for a living so this book doesn't sound half as melodramatic as my Mondays
Real love is a CHOICE, NOT a feeling...
Posts: 3366 | Registered: Apr 2006 | From: Dallas, Texas |
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