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The Fault in Our Stars

dollabill
January 10, 2012 10:47PM | The Fault in Our Stars
It's the new John Green book and you can bet it's going to be amazing. It also came out today and I just got my copy! If you purchased a first edition of the book it comes signed, mine is in green. Also on the last page John Green thanks John Darnielle.

If you need any more coaxing into buying the book or borrowing it from your local library check out these videos where John reads Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.

Also don't forget to be awesome.


I've got big plans. ◊ Talking Blanket ◊ Yay, Butts! LOL!



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/13/2012 04:19PM by dollabill.
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StatusFrustratio
January 11, 2012 06:35AM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
Sure I will, come some point! Not allowed to buy anything other than textbooks 'til summer, though.


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dollabill
January 11, 2012 09:38AM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
Oh boo! I haven't started the book yet, as I've been working late for the past 2 weeks. I brought it into work and am going to try to sneak some chapters in here and there throughout the day.


I've got big plans. ◊ Talking Blanket ◊ Yay, Butts! LOL!
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dollabill
January 13, 2012 04:22PM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
I finished the book today, it was fantastic and had me blubbering like a baby. The special edition audiobook version came in the mail yesterday whith a DVD where JG talks about the book, I may end up watching that tonight. Or the GI Joe DVD that just came in the mail too.


I've got big plans. ◊ Talking Blanket ◊ Yay, Butts! LOL!
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Alpha Puppington
January 17, 2012 01:29AM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
I have my (signed!) copy, but I haven't had time to read it yet. I need to finish Franzen's Freedom before I can allow myself to read something else.


Mercy for the Diaz Brothers!
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dollabill
January 17, 2012 11:00AM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
It's really good, I let my sister borrow it on Friday night and she finished the book by Saturday afternoon. Over the weekend Jess and I went to a couple different bookstores and checked to see the different signatures (and if there were any rare-r hanklerfished ones out there), we noticed in one of the stores a fan put a postcard in the book letting the potential buyer know how much they enjoyed John's work. It was pretty cool to see young people so excited about reading.


I've got big plans. ◊ Talking Blanket ◊ Yay, Butts! LOL!
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valerie2776
January 20, 2012 01:17AM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
IT'S SO GOOD AND I'M IN THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IN THE SAME SENTENCE AS JOHN DARNIELLE AND I CAN DIE HAPPY

i left notes in all the copies in all the bookstores i could find (like 40) while looking for fancily signed/special copies. didn't find any but a bunch of people have contacted me through twitter/tumblr saying they found a note which is super cool


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Alpha Puppington
January 28, 2012 04:56PM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
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Alpha Puppington
I have my (signed!) copy, but I haven't had time to read it yet. I need to finish Franzen's Freedom before I can allow myself to read something else.
Bah, nuts to this. I'll finish Freedom at some point, but I read TFiOS in two days this past week and it's John Green's best novel yet, which is certainly saying something. Everyone should read it.


Mercy for the Diaz Brothers!
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jacobfiala
January 28, 2012 09:00PM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
They are doing an AMA on reddit (hank and john)
[www.reddit.com]
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Alpha Puppington
January 28, 2012 09:45PM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
As cool as that is, I wouldn't even begin to know what to say. Admittedly, I don't even fully understand how Reddit works.


Mercy for the Diaz Brothers!
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jacobfiala
January 29, 2012 11:11AM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
It's pretty awesome
and actually really easy
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dollabill
January 31, 2012 03:53PM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
Well it looks like this book has just been optioned.
[www.publishersweekly.com]


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jacobfiala
January 31, 2012 07:01PM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
perfect! they worked on projects like eragon and twilight, that's who I want making it into a movie
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Alpha Puppington
January 31, 2012 07:18PM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
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jacobfiala
perfect! they worked on projects like eragon and twilight, that's who I want making it into a movie
On the bright side, I don't think anything would have to be edited down for a PG-13. I don't recall much heavy swearing and the sexual content was rather tame. I mean, it's certainly not Looking for Alaska. On the down side, every single thing about the possibility of a John Green book being turned into a movie, especially one helmed by incompetent buffoons, makes me want to pull an Issac and smash a whole bunch of shit.


Mercy for the Diaz Brothers!



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valerie2776
January 31, 2012 09:09PM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
All of his books have been optioned, I think, and none turned into movies (yet). I really hope this one isn't either because blaughlkgdhhh


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betamax
April 05, 2012 04:58PM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
Picked this up today. Nothing from the author in the liner but someone (probably just an employee at the store, but i like to think otherwise) wrote on a post it, and stuck it to the inside:



What does DFTBA mean?

edit: i googled it. now i know, and now i know wht the person wrote it in there.


let's get dressed up in costumes and dance by the bar.



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dollabill
April 06, 2012 12:17AM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
John Green and his brother Hank started doing daily web videos a couple years ago, a community formed around that and one of their slogans is DFTBA (don't forget to be awesome). It's actually pretty common for people to put notes in both Johns books and other Young Adult books explaining how great John Green is. John is a pretty big Mountain Goats fan dropping the band name in a couple books and even posted here a couple times. I think JD even sent him a copy of All Eternals Deck before it was released.

Make sure you come back and let me know how you liked the book when you're done! smiling smiley


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soundingonlyatnightasyousleep
April 06, 2012 10:04PM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
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dollabill
John is a pretty big Mountain Goats fan dropping the band name in a couple books and even posted here a couple times.
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John Green has posted here? Where?
I love his books. They are absolutely stunning. I read The Fault in Our Stars one morning in the space of about four hours, lying in bed and sobbing. I then tried to press the book on all my friends. This campaign was ended when one of them carelessly left my signed copy propped on a stand in the orchestra room and I felt fatally betrayed for a day.
(Now The Fault in Our Stars and The Life of the World to Come are inextricably linked in my mind, and I get ridiculously emotional experiencing either of them.)
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betamax
April 09, 2012 01:48PM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
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dollabill
John Green and his brother Hank started doing daily web videos a couple years ago, a community formed around that and one of their slogans is DFTBA (don't forget to be awesome). It's actually pretty common for people to put notes in both Johns books and other Young Adult books explaining how great John Green is. John is a pretty big Mountain Goats fan dropping the band name in a couple books and even posted here a couple times. I think JD even sent him a copy of All Eternals Deck before it was released.

Make sure you come back and let me know how you liked the book when you're done! smiling smiley
it made me choke back tears and want to call my best friend. i was stunningly hungover when i read it, though, which is not the best time to read books with themes like this one. I read it again straight afterwards.

(a bit too 'young adult' in parts for my tastes, but that's par for the course in young adult fiction)


let's get dressed up in costumes and dance by the bar.



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dollabill
April 09, 2012 02:04PM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
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soundingonlyatnightasyousleep
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dollabill
John is a pretty big Mountain Goats fan dropping the band name in a couple books and even posted here a couple times.
!!!
John Green has posted here? Where?
I love his books. They are absolutely stunning. I read The Fault in Our Stars one morning in the space of about four hours, lying in bed and sobbing. I then tried to press the book on all my friends. This campaign was ended when one of them carelessly left my signed copy propped on a stand in the orchestra room and I felt fatally betrayed for a day.
(Now The Fault in Our Stars and The Life of the World to Come are inextricably linked in my mind, and I get ridiculously emotional experiencing either of them.)

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner, he's only got two posts here. Here is a link to his profile.

Here's a link to the post where JD says how much he likes JG and vice versa.


I've got big plans. ◊ Talking Blanket ◊ Yay, Butts! LOL!



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dollabill
April 09, 2012 02:09PM | Re: The Fault in Our Stars
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betamax
it made me choke back tears and want to call my best friend. i was stunningly hungover when i read it, though, which is not the best time to read books with themes like this one. I read it again straight afterwards.

(a bit too 'young adult' in parts for my tastes, but that's par for the course in young adult fiction)

I read all of the really sad parts at work, telling everyone that I had bad allergies to explain all the sniffles.


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