The fault in our stars !! - Page 2

Originally posted by: DHIN_CHAK

Postmaker...r u sis in disguise😆 ..my sis has gone mad about this film..she also said the same thing how the book wa so much better and the good parts were not included..i hv not seen the film yet.

Originally posted by: Chandu2000

It would be very stupid to categorize this film as only a sad film or teen romance genre. This story is just something different...it's not only about two people falling in love..it's about these two individuals called Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace who are beautiful in their own way..I just can't put it in words..it's soo wonderful !!!!

Originally posted by: Yankees

I avoid films of such genres. Nothing against this film. Just don't' have to the heart watch such stuff.

Originally posted by: Chandu2000

Oh..okay then 😊

But I was just asking you to give it a try...but I understand you pov.😃

Originally posted by: Yankees

Umm yea, pretty closes experience with cancer so i don't watch stuff abt death/dying. Too disturbing and I'll probably fast forward anyway. 😆

This year I read "The Fault in Our Stars" because a very good friend recommended the book to me with exceptionally high praise. Normally, I shy away from romances or sad stories. The idea of a love story between cancer patients sounded too melodramatic, sappy and all the stuff I loathe about romance novels. My friend knows my tastes and preferences well, so I trusted her and read the book. Boy, am I glad I read it. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. It easily ranks amidst one of my favorite books of all times, and I have read a lot. I in turn recommended it to others, who also liked the book.

Now the writer John Green is not any master of prose. He doesn't have sophisticated writing that makes his work stand apart as a hallmark of good writing. What makes the book unlike any other book, especially one of a kind in the romance genre is that John Green is the master of nerd culture. His characters are quirky, eccentric and full of idiosyncrasy. Most importantly they are nerds in some way. "The Fault in Our Stars" didn't make me cry. I had a heavy heart when tragic things happened, but it didn't make me sad per say. That is because the book was uplifting. It is a feel good book. None of the characters evoke sympathy. Cancer gives them a different outlook to life and they use cancer to fuel their sarcasm, wit and humor. They spew politically incorrect one liners about cancer and suffering that make you snicker and think I can't believe he/she said that'. I think it is a must read for everybody, because we all need to get away from the conventional perception of cancer. We need to stop making it so heavy and learn to embrace happiness more like this book does. That is why in one sense it is great that this book is successful and has led to a phenomenal movie.

At the same time the success of "The Fault in Our Stars" also breaks my heart. The appropriation of nerd culture by the mainstream just bothers me. Sometimes I feel compelled to shake my fist at all the teeny bopper girls gushing over the movie. Why can't they stick to their mindless fantasy fiction romances like Twilight. They have desecrated the sanctity of vampire fiction for eternity, why do they have to lay their sniveling fingers on other aspects of nerd culture as well. Do they even get the irony and dark humor in the book? Are they really invested in nerd culture? Or is the romance factor with good looking stars that is most likely driving them.

Part of me is dying to watch the movie because Alton Brown hosted the Night Before Our Stars and his bespectacled bow-tied persona is a shout out to nerds to come engage in this festivity of nerd culture. It got great reviews too, that too from respected critics who get it. Part of me is terrified to let mainstream media appropriate another subgenre as their own. Dumb white chicks already hold quinceaneras wearing bindis because its cool to do the exotic. Tomorrow, they will be wearing Princess Leia buns and carrying light sabers at comic-con because that's the next cool thing to do. That scares me.

But then again where people read good books and watch good movies instead of Twilight is a better place right? I should be happy that youth culture is changing for the positive and perhaps this form of cultural appropriation is a good thing. Isn't Glee a guilty pleasure because it made the show choir cool again?

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

This year I read "The Fault in Our Stars" because a very good friend recommended the book to me with exceptionally high praise. Normally, I shy away from romances or sad stories. The idea of a love story between cancer patients sounded too melodramatic, sappy and all the stuff I loathe about romance novels. My friend knows my tastes and preferences well, so I trusted her and read the book. Boy, am I glad I read it. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. It easily ranks amidst one of my favorite books of all times, and I have read a lot. I in turn recommended it to others, who also liked the book.

Now the writer John Green is not any master of prose. He doesn't have sophisticated writing that makes his work stand apart as a hallmark of good writing. What makes the book unlike any other book, especially one of a kind in the romance genre is that John Green is the master of nerd culture. His characters are quirky, eccentric and full of idiosyncrasy. Most importantly they are nerds in some way. "The Fault in Our Stars" didn't make me cry. I had a heavy heart when tragic things happened, but it didn't make me sad per say. That is because the book was uplifting. It is a feel good book. None of the characters evoke sympathy. Cancer gives them a different outlook to life and they use cancer to fuel their sarcasm, wit and humor. They spew politically incorrect one liners about cancer and suffering that make you snicker and think I can't believe he/she said that'. I think it is a must read for everybody, because we all need to get away from the conventional perception of cancer. We need to stop making it so heavy and learn to embrace happiness more like this book does. That is why in one sense it is great that this book is successful and has led to a phenomenal movie.

At the same time the success of "The Fault in Our Stars" also breaks my heart. The appropriation of nerd culture by the mainstream just bothers me. Sometimes I feel compelled to shake my fist at all the teeny bopper girls gushing over the movie. Why can't they stick to their mindless fantasy fiction romances like Twilight. They have desecrated the sanctity of vampire fiction for eternity, why do they have to lay their sniveling fingers on other aspects of nerd culture as well. Do they even get the irony and dark humor in the book? Are they really invested in nerd culture? Or is the romance factor with good looking stars that is most likely driving them.

Part of me is dying to watch the movie because Alton Brown hosted the Night Before Our Stars and his bespectacled bow-tied persona is a shout out to nerds to come engage in this festivity of nerd culture. It got great reviews too, that too from respected critics who get it. Part of me is terrified to let mainstream media appropriate another subgenre as their own. Dumb white chicks already hold quinceaneras wearing bindis because its cool to do the exotic. Tomorrow, they will be wearing Princess Leia buns and carrying light sabers at comic-con because that's the next cool thing to do. That scares me.

But then again where people read good books and watch good movies instead of Twilight is a better place right? I should be happy that youth culture is changing for the positive and perhaps this form of cultural appropriation is a good thing. Isn't Glee a guilty pleasure because it made the show choir cool again?