That’s a recurring sentiment among the book’s supporters. There’s no book I can think of that compares. “It shows that people with diseases are normal,” he says. Gus (Ansel Elgort, left), Isaac (Nat Wolff) and Hazel (Shailene Woodley) in a scene from the film. His enthusiasm is fueled in part by his sister’s fight with cystic fibrosis. Josh Tominus, a 17-year-old high school senior from South Amboy, NJ, connected to the book so deeply he created a Tumblr, “TFIOS News,” that has amassed more than 14,000 followers. The realism seems to be a major selling point for hardcore fans. They were so smart and so dark and so funny and so fatalistic.” “We with kids with cancer, and meeting them validated the book for me, they were so much like those characters. “That played into the trappings that movies like that fall into, that make them maudlin and not credible,” says Boone. “TFIOS” director Josh Boone is quick to distance the project from its earlier model, though. This “sick-lit,” as it’s known, echoes the treacly 1970 novel and subsequent film “Love Story” (starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw), about a star-crossed young couple in which the wife dies from cancer. The result was a book that upends the tropes of its genre. One of the many catchy phrases stuffed into the trailer My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations. I think their lives have just as much humor and anger and frustration and excitement and joy as any other life.” “I don’t think that the ill or the dying are fundamentally ‘other’ from the healthy. “I wanted to write a cancer story, but I wanted to write a cancer story that was very conscious of cancer stories,” says Green. Schmaltzy Nicholas Sparks fantasy this is not. Through the dance of adolescent romance, the quick-witted pair grow closer as they struggle with the cards life’s dealt them. It follows Hazel (played in the film by Shailene Woodley), a 16-year-old terminal cancer patient who meets Augustus (Ansel Elgort) - aka Gus, a charming hottie who also has a history of cancer, and a missing leg to show for it - at a support group. “TFIOS,” as fans call it, bucks the YA trends that have dominated the last decade by subbing out vampires, magic and dystopian aggression for chemo. Now mania for the book has flooded over to the film - the trailer is the most-liked in YouTube’s history, with more than 19 million views to date. Green, 36, has become a cult hero, complete with 2.4 million Twitter followers. The book has more than 10.7 million copies in print worldwide and has been on the New York Times best seller list for more than 130 consecutive weeks. The new movie, which hits theaters this Friday, is based upon the wildly popular young adult novel by John Green. Such is the befuddling phenomenon that is “The Fault in Our Stars.”
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You’d think the scene was that of a “Hunger Games” premiere, not an early screening for a movie about kids with cancer (the actor was Nat Wolff, featured below). In all directions, teenage girls wielding posters and lusty dreams stampeded out of their seats in hope of obtaining autographs and selfies. Superheroes and frat boys lead 2015 MTV Movie Awards nomsĪs word spread through the theater that one of the actors from the film had entered the building, shrieks shook the room. 'The Fault In Our Stars' wins big at MTV Movie Awards Real-life 'Fault in Our Stars' couple dies days apart If you're surprised not to see some of your favorite books among the winners, you might want to look at this blog post, which describes the thinking behind the tough calls.Enough with heart-tugging films about quirky, terminally ill teens But deciding what does and doesn't count as a young-adult novel isn't an exact science. Selecting a manageable voting roster from among the more than 1,200 nominations that came in from readers wasn't easy, and we were happy to be able to rely on such an experienced panel of judges. For example, John Green, author of the 2012 hit The Fault in Our Stars, appears five times in the top 100. While it's no surprise to see Harry Potter and the Hunger Games trilogy on top, this year's list also highlights some writers we weren't as familiar with. A whopping 75,220 of you voted for your favorite young adult novels, blasting past the total for last year's science fiction and fantasy poll at, dare we say it, warp speed.Īnd now, the final results are in. Which is why we were only a little surprised to see the tremendous response that came in for this summer's Best-Ever Teen Fiction poll. Just last year, the Association of American Publishers ranked Children's/Young Adult books as the single fastest-growing publishing category. It's almost a cliche at this point to say that teen fiction isn't just for teens anymore.