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As the modern world advances, we become more and more passive as consumers. Still, we generally have no participation in these longer stories.
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On very special occasions, we even take in the 90- or 120-minute epic. We assign a little more permission to the experts, tolerating chunks of 30 minutes or an hour. Familiarity breeds a kind of contempt-good luck finding an audience for most yarns if the telling outlasts a single beer. Pick up any remote, look at any screen, you become audience to a story. Stories come a dime a dozen in the Western world. TFIOS is the first of Green’s books to achieve both commercial success and critical acclaim. Green also wrote other books, including the Printz Award winner, Looking for Alaska, and a best-seller, Paper Towns, which appear to have prepared him for his best work to date. Nerdfighters recently raised almost half a million dollars for charity during a two-day event called The Project for Awesome. The online community has a lot of fun and does a lot of good. In addition to the usual web video shenanigans, the pair make bi-weekly videos about a wide range of topics that teenagers aren’t supposed to care about: macroeconomics, copyright law, education reform. In the meantime, he built a tribe of followers called Nerdfighters through the YouTube channel where he collaborates with his brother, Hank. He has said that TFIOS existed in some form since that experience, that the story simply waited for him to be ready to write it. While in college, Green volunteered at a children’s hospital. At the center of this swirling vortex of big ideas lies the notion that made-up stories can mean a great deal to people … and that we face losing such stories just as we face losing life. It is exquisitely crafted and universally accessible. Here is a story about chance and choice too tragic to be comedic, and too funny to be sad. Both have already stared death in the face and come to accept its reality, but in one another they each find reason to live out their remaining days with passion and purpose. His star-crossed lovers, Hazel and Augustus, meet at a support group for terminally ill teenagers. Still, Green navigates some very deep waters with great finesse. Somewhere a publishing executive laughably categorized it as a “Children’s Chapter Book.”Īny blow-by-blow plot summary of TFIOS would sound so depressing as to be hardly readable. Indianapolis-based writer John Green gathered the world’s most painful and confusing paradoxes, marinated them in sarcasm until they became bearable and assigned them the title The Fault in Our Stars. And then there are books… which you can’t tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”-Hazel, from The Fault in Our Stars “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together until all living humans read the book.