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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book is an easy read for middle school students. This book has sad moments, but I recommend this book because it teaches people to not judge others because you never know what they're going through. This book is about someone with cancer who ends up falling in love and can teach people with cancer that there is hope to find love. Hazel and Augustus meet through a support group for teens with cancer and a romance blossoms between them while they struggle with ongoing health issues. I think John Green's books are just not for me. I had previously read Paper Towns and hadn't been a huge fan of it, but I thought I would try this more popular work of his to see if I enjoyed it a bit more. On the one hand, this is a quick and oddly engaging book, but maybe it's engaging in the way a train wreck is -- you can't pull your eyes away even though it's terrible. I find his writing style so pretentious, with characters who have affectations instead of character traits. (For instance, one girl is so much more sophisticated than the other residents of this town in Indiana that she speaks with a British accent even though she isn't British. Likewise, Augustus pretend-smokes by putting cigarettes in his mouth but not lighting them as "a metaphor.") The characters are primarily all snarky and full of biting quips, and anyone who isn't like that is basically a character that is looked down upon for their earnestness. There's also a pretentious author within the story, which just double downs on the amount of fake high-brow writing in which we have to talk about the representational nature of metaphor and etc. instead of just actually having metaphors and other literary devices to write eloquently. The story itself is fine and hits on some real emotional resonance at times, but the writing style is just not for me. I do appreciate how the audiobook copy ended with an interview with John Green in which he mentioned the time he worked with young cancer patients and how that influenced the writing of this book. Speaking of the audiobook, I didn't love how rapidly the narrator spoke but otherwise she did a fantastic job of creating a number of distinct voices with different accents and a lot of passion. I think I would have liked this book even less if I had read the print version. I just don't get the hype. When I read this back in 2012 I probably would have given this a 5-star rating. But now having analyzed the contents of the book again (this time as an adult), I find a lot of its content to be really problematic and insensitive on many levels. Especially the scene in the Anne Frank House. It's disappointing as someone who was a big fan during John Green's youtube days. I just think there are likely better reads out there if you want to read about a story of teens trying to find love while fighting cancer. Is contained inLooking for Alaska / An Abundance of Katherines / Paper Towns / The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Has the adaptationIs abridged inIs parodied inHas as a reference guide/companionHas as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life. No library descriptions found. |
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Die Prosa ist so exquisit, dass sie fast ungerecht ist, und sie hat mir das Herz herausgerissen. Ich weinte, ich lächelte und ich klammerte mich an mein geschundenes Herz, welches immer wieder mitfühlend brach.
Das Schicksal ist ein mieser Verräter ♦ John Green
Meinung
In Das Schicksal ist ein mieser Verräter ist Hazel Lancaster, eine schwerkranke Sechzehnjährige mit Lungenkrebs im Endstadium, die Hauptfigur. Das Leben ist so schon herausfordernd genug, aber der Krebs hebt es auf eine ganz andere Stufe. Jeden Tag kämpft Hazel gegen ihr tragisches Schicksal an, bis sie auf Augustus Waters, eine weitere junge sterbende Seele, trifft. Plötzlich kann sich das Leben in den letzten Tagen und Stunden vor dem Tod überraschend zum Guten wenden.
Aber auch zum Schlechten.
Die meisten Bücher lese ich nicht nur mit den Augen, sondern auch mit dem Herzen. Oftmals geht das auch gut, aber manchmal ist es mit Risiken verbunden.
Ich hatte des Öfteren ein sehr mulmiges Gefühl im Magen, während ich durch die Seiten blätterte. Teils dachte ich, dass ich beim Lesen des unvorstellbar qualvollen Leidens selbst sterbe. Wahrscheinlich bin ich dies auch ein bisschen.
Trotz all der Qualen kommt Das Schicksal ist ein mieser Verräter mit großartigen Momente daher – diese sind zwar rar, aber unglaublich intensiv – welche das Buch sehr, sehr lohnenswert machen.
Fazit
★★★★★
Das Schicksal ist ein mieser Verräter ist eine grausame Geschichte, die zweifellos fast alle LeserInnen in ständigen Tränen und mit einem hohen Taschentuchverbrauch zurücklassen wird.
Extrem berührend, oft sehr erhebend und motivierend, mit einem Anteil an humor- und liebevollen Momenten. Atemberaubend herzzerreißend. Es gibt so viele denkwürdige Zitate und Momente, die jeder für sich selbst entdecken sollte. Sehr empfehlenswert. Ein Meisterwerk für junge Erwachsene, aber auch jene darüber hinaus.
This review was first posted at The Art of Reading. ( )