The fault in our stars

''[[The Fault in Our Stars]]'' is the fourth solo novel by author [[John Green]], published in January 2012. The story is narrated by a sixteen-year-old female cancer patient named [[Hazel Grace Lancaster]], who is forced by her parents to attend a [[Support Group|support group]], where she subsequently meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old [[Augustus Waters]], an ex-basketball player and amputee.

On his Tumblr blog and his YouTube blog, [[John Green|Green]] stated that "the title is inspired by a famous line from Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar (Act 1, scene 2). The nobleman Cassius says to Brutus, 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.'"

In January 2012, the film rights to the book were optioned by Fox 2000, and on February 19, 2013, it was announced that Josh Boone would be directing the film. It is set to star [[Shailene Woodley]], [[Ansel Elgort]] and [[Nat Wolff|Nat Wolff.]]

== Story ==

As Hazel comes to terms with Augustus' death, she spends time with [[Isaac]] and is told that [[Augustus Waters|Augustus]] left something at his departure. [[Hazel Grace Lancaster|Hazel]] searches and eventually finds a letter that Augustus wrote for Van Houten, supposedly about the alterations for ''An Imperial Affliction.''

The novel ends with [[Hazel Grace Lancaster|Hazel]] answering [[Augustus Waters|Augustus']] letter by saying that she did in fact enjoy her time with him as much as he said he enjoyed his with her.

==Early release==

<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">On December 21, 2011, </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes\_%26\_Noble Barnes & Noble]<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> accidentally shipped 1500 copies of </span>''The Fault in Our Stars''<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> to people who had pre-ordered the book. Green released a statement saying, "Mistakes happen. The people who made this error were not bad or incompetent people, and they were not acting maliciously. We all make mistakes, and it is not my wish to see Barnes and Noble or any of their employees vilified." Many people who received the book pledged not to read it until its release date, January 10, 2012, or discuss it until the next day, January 11, as per a request of Green's not to spoil it for other readers. Most kept to this promise leaving the experience untarnished for those who got the book on intended release date.</span>

==Publication history==

<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">The book rose to #1 on the </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com Amazon.com]<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> and </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes\_%26\_Noble Barnes & Noble]<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> bestseller lists in June 2011 shortly after its title was announced.</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> Green promised that every pre-order would be hand-signed by him, requiring him to sign every copy of the first printing. He proposed that the general public vote on the color </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpie\_(marker) Sharpie]<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> he would use to sign the books, resulting in him signing the 150,000 books with a variety of Sharpie colors, each in proportion to the amount of votes received for that color.</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> However, some people who ordered from international booksellers received unsigned copies because those bookstores, including Amazon UK, underestimated how many books they needed and ordered more after the signing was complete, but Green agreed to fix this problem, telling people with unsigned pre-orders to email him so they could be sent a signed bookplate.</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> Many fans submitted their book cover designs to various outlets including Tumblr and Twitter, tagging Green in these posts so he could see them. The sizeable number of posts received has prompted Green's publisher Penguin to seek a fan designed cover for a reprint of one of Green's other books, </span>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An\_Abundance\_of\_Katherines An Abundance of Katherines]''<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">.</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> </span>

''The Fault in Our Stars''<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> debuted at #1 on </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_New\_York\_Times\_Best\_Seller\_list ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list]<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> for Children's Chapter Books</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> and remained in that spot for seven consecutive weeks.</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> A Hebrew edition of The Fault in Our Stars was published in Israel on August 2012 and more editions of the novel are forthcoming in Dutch, German, Spanish, French, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Chinese, and Portuguese. </span>

''The Fault in Our Stars''<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> has also gained places on several bestseller lists. It was #1 on the </span>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall\_Street\_Journal Wall Street Journal]''<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> bestseller list, #1 on the </span>[http://www.indiebound.org/ ''Indiebound'']<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> bestseller list, and #9 on </span>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Bookseller The Bookseller]''<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> bestseller list. The novel was also the </span>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New\_York\_Times New York Times]''<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> Book Review Editor's Choice.</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> As of January 2013, there are nearly 8 million copies of the novel in print.</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> In December 2012 it was announced that a special edition with a silver cover and an expanded Q&A, dubbed the 'Exclusive Collector's Edition', would be available from Barnes and Noble. All or at least most of the copies first available for purchase of this edition of the book contained a printing error wherein several pages of the first chapter were replaced with pages from the Q&A section at the back of the book.</span>

== Esther Grace Earl ==

Esther Earl was born on August 3rd, 1994. She died on August 25th, 2010. She was sixteen years old and good friends with John Green. They met at a Harry Potter conference in 2009. In November of 2006, at the age of twelve, Earl got Thyriod cancer.She fought for four years. Esther wanted to be an author, so her parents collected some things and turned it into a book for her, called This Star Won't Go Out. (Esther Means "star"). Shortly before her death, John Green uploaded "I Love Hank: Esther Day 2010" to celebrate "family and love", this stated by Esther. Esther Day is celebrated annually on August 3rd, her birthday. Esther was the inspiration for Hazel Grace Lancaster in The Fault in Our Stars.

The dedication: "To Esther Earl."

==Critical reception==

<p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-family:sans-serif;">''The Fault in Our Stars'' has received highly positive reviews from critics. ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_New\_York\_Times The New York Times]<nowiki>' *review of the book called it "a blend of melancholy, sweet, philosophical and funny" and said that it "stays the course of tragic realism", while noting that the book's unpleasant plot details "do nothing to diminish the romance; in Green’s hands, they only make it more moving." NPR's Rachel Syme noted that "[Green's] voice is so compulsively readable that it defies categorization," saying that the "elegantly plotted" book "may be his best."* Time *called* The Fault in Our Stars *"damn near genius."* Entertainment Weekly *wrote, "[Augustus and Hazel's] love story is as real as it is doomed, and the gut-busting laughs that come early in the novel make the luminous final pages all the more heartbreaking", and gave the novel an overall A− grade. Amazon.com calls it “insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw” and Green’s “most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet.” The Manila Bulletin says that the book is “a collection of maudlin scenes and trite observations about the fragility of life and the wisdom of dying. And while it does talk about those things and more, the treatment of it is far from being maudlin or trite.” The Manila Bulletin also added that “Just two paragraphs into the work, and he immediately wallops the readers with such an insightful observation delivered in such an unsentimental way that its hard not to shake your head in admiration.”  The Manila Bulletin stated that “The Fault in Our Stars” was a triumph for John Green. USA Today called it a “elegiac comedy.” The School Library Journalstated that it was "a strong choice for Adult Collections." USA Today gave the book a rating of four out of four stars.*

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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;font-family:sans-serif;">Several well-known authors have contributed their own positive reviews for the book. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi\_Picoult Jodi Picoult], author of ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My\_Sister%27s\_Keeper\_(novel) My Sister's Keeper]'', calls ''The Fault in Our Stars'' "an electric portrait of young people who learn to live life with one foot in the grave." She goes on to say that the novel is "filled with staccato bursts of humor and tragedy." Bestselling author of ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Book\_Thief The Book Thief]'', [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus\_Zusak Markus Zusak], describes it as "a novel of life and death and the people caught in between" and "John Green at his best". Pertaining to Green's writing throughout the book, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.\_Lockhart E. Lockhart], author of [http://www.emilylockhart.com/books/the-boyfriend-list ''The Boyfriend List''], says "He makes me laugh and gasp at the beauty of a sentence or the twist of a tale. He is one of the best writers alive and I am seething with envy of his talent." ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time\_(magazine) Time]'' named ''The Fault in Our Stars'' as the #1 fiction book of 2012.</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;font-family:sans-serif;">One notable unfavorable opinion appeared in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Daily\_Mail the Daily Mail]''. In the piece, the plot of ''The Fault in Our Stars'' was described as ″mawkish at best, exploitative at worst″ and the book was characterized as belonging to the ″sick-lit [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young-adult\_fiction young adult] genre, together with other young-adult novels such as ''[http://www.nevereighteen.com/ Never Eighteen]''and ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before\_I\_Die Before I Die]''. This entire genre, as well as the genre of young-adult novels dealing with suicide and self-harm (the piece mentions ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen\_Reasons\_Why Thirteen Reasons Why]'';''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie\_Anne\_Peters#By\_the\_Time\_You\_Read\_This.2C\_I.27ll\_Be\_Dead By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead]''; ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Lovely\_Bones The Lovely Bones]''; and [http://www.red-tears.com/ ''Red Tears''] was criticized as being ″distasteful″ and inappropriate for their target audience of teens. ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Guardian The Guardian]'' criticized the piece, pointing out in particular that''The Fault in Our Stars'' was chosen by ''The Guardian'' as that month's ″teen book club choice″ because ″it's a gripping read, featuring two compelling characters, that deals sensitively and even humorously with a difficult situation without descending into mawkishness.″ In general, ''The Guardian'' faulted ''The Daily Mail'' for suggesting that the issues of illness, depression, and sexuality are inappropriate precisely ″in the one place where difficult subjects have traditionally been most sensitively explored for teens: fiction written specifically for them.″ However, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg\_Rosoff Meg Rosoff], an accomplished writers of young adult novels, sided with ''The Daily Mail'' in her comment to the reply by writing in her blog, ''Almost True'', "Don't throw the baby out with the Sick Lit." For his part, in an interview for ''The Guardian'', John Green said, ″The thing that bothered me about ''The Daily Mail'' piece was that it was a bit condescending to teenagers. I'm tired of adults telling teenagers that they aren't smart, that they can't read critically, that they aren't thoughtful, and I feel like that article made those arguments.″</p>

== Film adaptation ==

''Main article: [[The Fault in Our Stars (film)]]''

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;font-family:sans-serif;">In January 2012, Fox 2000, a division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th\_Century\_Fox 20th Century Fox], optioned the rights to adapt the novel into a feature film. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh\_Boone\_(director) Josh Boone] signed on to direct a year later, in February 2013. Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen are producing the film. [[Shailene Woodley]] will star as Hazel, while [[Ansel Elgort]] will play [[Augustus Waters]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat\_Wolff Nat Wolff] was cast as [[Isaac]], the friend that introduces them, and [[Laura Dern]] will star as Hazel's mother. [[Sam Trammell]] was cast as [[Mr. Lancaster]], Hazel's father. On August 29, 2013, [[John Green]] announced that [[Mike Birbiglia]] would be playing the role of Patrick. On September 6, 2013, [[John Green]] announced that [[Willem Dafoe]] would portray [[Peter Van Houten]].</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;font-family:sans-serif;">Filming began on August 26, 2013 on location in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh\_metropolitan\_area Pittsburgh], doubling for the novel's setting of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis Indianapolis], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana Indiana]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott\_Neustadter Scott Neustadter] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael\_H.\_Weber Michael H. Weber] wrote the adapted screenplay. Filming is currently underway in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam Amsterdam]. The film is planned to be released on June 6, 2014.</p>

==Videos==

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