Judul: The Fault in Our Stars
Penulis: John Green
Penerbit: Dutton Books
Tahun Terbit: 2012
Halaman: 318
Genre: Young-Adult & Romance
SYNOPSIS ( CLICK HERE TO READ )
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
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“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
Aku baru aja selesai baca ulang buku ini. Dan semakin kupikir-pikir lagi, aku makin pengen ngilangin satu bintang. Sorry for the hard core fans, tapi buku ini gak lagi kuanggap sebagai favoritku. Ya ya ya. Pengen tau pastinya dong? Tiba-tiba ngilangin satu bintang dari buku ini? Jawabannya simpel, mungkin aku emang gak suka romance. Atau slow-paced book.
Well, karena aku baru aja baca buku ini, aku pengen nge-review buku ini. Karna waktu itu aku lupa ngereview. Oh iya, btw, aku punya sistem rating yang baru yang lebih selektif dan lebih rumit, akan aku jelaskan kalau ada waktu, hehehe:D tapi pokoknya mulai sekarang aku bakalan lebih jujur mengevaluasi buku-buku yang aku baca. :)
Buku ini dimulai dengan beragam keunikan dan awalnya ceritanya seru, menarik. Hazel ketemu sama Augustus Waters, dan hang out bareng, bla-bla-bla. Plotnya masih berjalan lancar menurutku, gak terlalu lambat atau cepet. Ya pokoknya pas deh. Mulai pertengahan, aku makin penasaran apa sih konflik utama dari buku ini. Apa yang ngebuat cerita ini jadi menarik? Karna, yah, kalo nyimak di pelajaran BI di sekolah sih, katanya setiap cerita harus ada konfliknya, kalo nggak namanya itu recount text:p
Mulai pertengahan, aku mulai bosan dengan ceritanya. Apa pointnya muter-muter disini? Karna aku mau ngasih review tanpa spoiler, tentu aja aku gak bakal ngasih tau. Pas konflik puncaknya, aku cuman bilang, SO WHAT? Terus apa? Sumpah dari awal buku sampe pertengahan ini, ceritanya nggak bergerak-bergerak. Okey, boong sih, bergerak, cuman lambat. Ceritanya di awal udah dibangun sedemikian menarik, eh! di tengah-tengah? Itu bener-bener flat, flat, flat. No offense. Untungnya penyelesaiannya bagus dan yahh, sedikit spoiler aja sih, bikin nangis. Point alur ini yang buat aku mikir ngasih 4 bintang. :( Sayang banget, padahal awalnya udah bagus.
Tapi untuk masalah apakah John Green nulis buku yang enjoyable or not? Udah pasti dia bisa bikin semua orang jatuh cinta sama gaya bahasanya yang oke banget. Dia bisa banget bikin aku yang tadinya cuman pengen baca satu chapter, jadi keterusan sampe 15 chapter! HAHA! Good job, Mr. Green! Pokoknya dia bisa deh ngebuat buku ini jadi cerita yang ngalir, walaupun ya itu tadi, alurnya muter-muter. Tapi ya, dia bisa buat kita pengen baca lagi setiap habis satu chapter :))
Untuk karakter-karakternya, ada Hazel, gadis yang jadi tokoh utama kita disini. Dan Gus--tokoh utama pria-nya. Kedua-duanya diceritain baik sekali oleh Green dan mereka karakter-karakternya deep. Hazel gadis yang mencintai buku, poetry, hal-hal berkaitan tentang literature, dan begitu juga Gus, pria yang pokoknya charming. Karakter-karakter lainnya nggak begitu menonjol sih menurutku, dan gak begitu penting sih. Kecuali mungkin Peter van Houten. Dia rada berperan penting disini.
“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
Bagi orang-orang yang berminat baca ni buku, aku saranin siapin tissue dulu--apalagi kalo kalian jenis orang yang gampang tersentuh! :) Oh iya, karena ini genre-nya Young-Adult, aku rekomendasiin buku buat remaja-remaja juga sih, dan orang-orang yang emang suka genre romance dan slow-paced books! Jangan sampe kalian jadi benci ni buku karena kalian sukanya novel mystery atau action eheheh~ ga cocok masbro.. :D
TERAKHIR! Kesimpulannya menurutku buku ini bagus, alurnya lambat, karakternya dapet dan sangat enjoyable. Aku pengen sih baca karya-karya John Green yang lain, mengingat betapa dia itu potensial banget nulis buku yang bagus-bagus! Dan, emang aku harus baca Paper Towns, ya karena BENTAR LAGI ADA FILMNYA DAN AKU HARUS BACA DULU SEBELUM NONTON. Itu fix.
“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.
"Augustus," I said.
"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
Oh iya, aku baru inget. Beberapa quotes dan pemikiran-pemikiran John Green bener-bener masuk ke kepala aku abis baca ini. Semuanya inspiring :)
“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”
“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY ( CLICK TO READ )
John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. In January 2012, his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars, was met with wide critical acclaim, unprecedented in Green's career. The praise included rave reviews in Time Magazine and The New York Times, on NPR, and from award-winning author Markus Zusak. The book also topped the New York Times Children's Paperback Bestseller list for several weeks. Green has also coauthored a book with David Levithan called Will Grayson, Will Grayson, published in 2010. The film rights for all his books, with the exception of Will Grayson Will Grayson, have been optioned to major Hollywood Studios.
MORE ABOUT JOHN GREEN
John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. In January 2012, his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars, was met with wide critical acclaim, unprecedented in Green's career. The praise included rave reviews in Time Magazine and The New York Times, on NPR, and from award-winning author Markus Zusak. The book also topped the New York Times Children's Paperback Bestseller list for several weeks. Green has also coauthored a book with David Levithan called Will Grayson, Will Grayson, published in 2010. The film rights for all his books, with the exception of Will Grayson Will Grayson, have been optioned to major Hollywood Studios.
MORE ABOUT JOHN GREEN
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