The Fault in Our Stars

The best part of this book is the title, stripped from [b:Julius Caesar 13006 Julius Caesar (Oxford School Shakespeare) William Shakespeare https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1354574927s/13006.jpg 2796883]. Otherwise pretty much everything else is abysmal. Practically no character depth, cheap references to great works/authors(simultaneously works for the characters and against them. They only quote works off their high school reading list, which would be natural, but talk like they're working on the senior English theses), unrealistic dialogue/characters/plotline, and painful ‘quirkiness' (buying but not smoking cigarettes, saying peoples' full name constantly, having sex as a stage 4 lung cancer patient on oxygen that gets tired from standing).I'm reading [b:Infinite Jest 6759 Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1446876799s/6759.jpg 3271542]and there's a line about this filmography being unengaging, pretentious, and bad. This is almost a good way to describe TFIOS–the only thing is this book isn't really quite pretentious. It's contrived and shallow, but not pretentious. That would imply it's on a high level in any sense of the word...which really makes me sound pretentious. Especially when I consider the ridiculous rating this book has and its disgusting(now that I've read it) popularity. It's worse than [b:The Martian 18007564 The Martian Andy Weir https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1413706054s/18007564.jpg 21825181].Anyway, don't read it even to see what the John Green hype is about.