This is a beautiful book, and the kind you can read over and over again without it losing any value or meaning. It’s emotional in a good way; the way that breaks your heart and eases your worries. I would’ve cried reading this book if I wasn’t in public. It’s hilarious and deep, and it is pretty difficult to do both. I marked so many pages; about 35 (out of 313!!!). How someone manages so write something this good is just beyond me.
Now, obviously (at least for me), teenagers don’t talk the way Hazel and Augustus do, but that’s what makes them unique. And also I just envisioned them as John Green talking through his characters, which made much more sense and gave me an easy way to suspend my disbelief. I personally don’t mind it being written like that (I’m fairly tolerant of strange formats) but I see why it would bother some people.