صالون الجمعة discussion

In the name of God


At 16, Hazel Grace Lancaster, a three-year stage IV–cancer survivor, is clinically depressed. To help her deal with this, her doctor sends her to a weekly support group where she meets Augustus Waters, a fellow cancer survivor, and the two fall in love. Both kids are preternaturally intelligent, and Hazel is fascinated with a novel about cancer called An Imperial Affliction. Most particularly, she longs to know what happened to its characters after an ambiguous ending. To find out, the enterprising Augustus makes it possible for them to travel to Amsterdam, where Imperial’s author, an expatriate American, lives. What happens when they meet him must be left to readers to discover. Suffice it to say, it is significant. Writing about kids with cancer is an invitation to sentimentality and pathos—or worse, in unskilled hands, bathos. Happily, Green is able to transcend such pitfalls in his best and most ambitious novel to date. Beautifully conceived and executed, this story artfully examines the largest possible considerations—life, love, and death—with sensitivity, intelligence, honesty, and integrity.



In the process, Green shows his readers what it is like to live with cancer, sometimes no more than a breath or a heartbeat away from death. But it is life that Green spiritedly celebrates here, even while acknowledging its pain. In its every aspect, this novel is a triumph.

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i read it a while ago :(
i would like to say that this book is sooooo over rated
it is a nice story actually but not as what it's rating says :/
u can check my review mates "))

I read it earlier this year, the characters are well plotted. The story will leave you with certain sensation and aura for days after you finish it.

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حددوا أنتم متوسط القراءة اليومي الذين تروه مناسبًا، ومدة القراءة مفتوح

i'll start today with u isa, i think 20p a day will be good rate of reading,do u agree?

I think I will catch up with you in a week ...

We will be waiting for you guys to quote and talk about
this book ..
Enjooooy ^^

i started reading, i like the way the subject is presented,Hazel is not a strong and brave girl,she is a teenager whose years of fun have been robbed from her. ok.... good start

hey guys am i reading alone??? I've finished chapter 5, anyway what do you think of the main characters? i find Isaac's experience a v. horrible one how can someone go in an operation he knows it'll render him blind...

hi
every1
since it is 24 chapter i suggest reading 2 chapters per day in 12 days we r gonna finish .
so far it is a v,sad to read about all these characters having cancer and they are kid and teenager .

so far am at chapter 5 also .

to know that you r going to be blind ... oh my god .. and handle that !!

i like also the " encouragement " the augustus family do , may be i will quote some of them over here ;)

"we stared at the house for a while. the weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture."

it's kinda enjoyable so far, even though I couldn't get any excited about the book and the questions thing..

stopped at chapter 11.

فاطمة wrote: ""we stared at the house for a while. the weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if..."

neither do i, but i think we don't suppose to.they want to know the rest of their book the way we want to know the rest of this story.

Shoshi ♥~ wrote: "i like also the " encouragement " the augustus family do , may be i will quote some of them over here ;)"

i like them too but i'll agree with Gus because i don't believe of putting phrases to encourage me in display i prefer keeping things like that in my mind..

this is a phrase i like and it is so true not only in the case of cancer but also in lots of diseases and disabilities "I could feel everybody watching us, wondering what was wrong with us, and whether it would kill us, and how heroic my mom must be, and everything else. That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people."

zhra wrote: "this is a phrase i like and it is so true not only in the case of cancer but also in lots of diseases and disabilities "I could feel everybody watching us, wondering what was wrong with us, and whe..."

really harsh ..

i like how gus is nice to hazal even though he had a previous girl friend who died ..
it must be hard for them to love when they know that death is so near ...

Shoshi ♥~ wrote: "i like how gus is nice to hazal even though he had a previous girl friend who died ..
it must be hard for them to love when they know that death is so near ..."

yes i think it's awful,and i think knowing they might die soon is not the worst problem but knowing they are causing so much pain for the ones they love is the worst ache

:( finish with chapter 6 so much pain in esp when hazal keep saying she is grenade :(( ...

" i am a grenade and at some point am going to blow up and i want to minimize the causalities "

always choose to avoid the pain
i think i should pass it & start reading it

reached ch 12 ...
who is' still reading with us ..

i guess i will end it up by the end of this week ..

i am still with u,i'll finish it this week too isa

I've finished. when u r done tell me so we can exchange views

as well finished over here .

sadness :(

yes but it's not just about death sadness it's the stages befor death...i think terminal diseases specially cancer first, divide patients from their surrounding because people automatically treat them differently then next stage is dealing with the idea of death and the burden of recognition that the patient will hurt the people he loves and lastly, the humiliation when his body turns against him and he feels he is so weak and vulnerable! i think the moral pain of cancer exceeds its physical pain especially in this age

i totally agree with you ...

even though i like it and i get emotional .. but i felt there was something missing in the whole book ..
but as u said it reflects a lot about the dealing with cancerous patients as between themselves as supporting group , their families , how they react to subject like death , relations and life . as well as the distant ..

i guess it is unfair to put 3 stars for it .. but this evaluation for something fiction " or that's how am convincing myself " " or a way to show the characters Hazal and Gus that i don't treat them as cancer perks ;) "

finally i enjoyed reading it in the Friday salon ..
even though the E-book copy sucks and there where like some paper missing ...

i enjoyed reading it here too, i think i am gonna give it 4 stars because it gives me different perspective of life and silent battles against diseases but i agree with u that something was missing or not complete.. i had a mobi copy and i read it on my Kindle. i highly recommend reading english book in an electronic form like mobi or epub

Is there anyone who's still reading this book ?

As it seems you have finished reading it girls, this was my review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Amel wrote: "As it seems you have finished reading it girls, this was my review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

nice review ;)

thank you :)