Among the list of books that have been successfully made into movies, the toppers for previous year were: Twilight Saga, Hunger Games and Life of Pi. This year movie-book fans are looking forward to the movie version of the much acclaimed 2012 young adult novel "The Fault in Our Stars" by Printz award winner and famous vlogger, John Green. The book has gained immense popularity and a cult following within young readers all over the world, with exclusively designed merchandise and clothing by the fans.Those who have read the book will agree that it is a brilliant piece of literature combining life's tragedies along with everyday humour.The title of the book comes from a famous line of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "the fault dear Brutus is not in our stars, but in ourselves that we are underling". The story is narrated by a 16 year old terminally ill girl, Hazel who falls in love with an amputated 17 year old cancer patient Augustus whom she met at a support group for cancer patients. Since both of them are facing the same disease it sort of makes the chemistry between them work wonders. With witty intelligent lines like "I am a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimise the causalities". The book is far from being just a teenage romance or a cancer book. The story dwells upon friendships, emotions, and family ties. Not only for teenagers but also for adults, the book provides a deep perspective into the lives of young cancer patients, their hopes, their fears and most importantly their drive to maintain sanity with doses of humour. For me the best part of the book was simplicity of the plot, characterisation of the main protagonists and how the author has woven the story around the biggest tragedy of life with humour.
The book had generally received positive reviews from The New York Times; the Time magazine declared it number one on their list of best fiction books of 2012. Now the movie with Shirline Woodley as Hazel and Willem Dafoe as Peter Van Houten, in pipeline is intended to be released sometime next year. Young fans from all over the world are excited for its release and hoping it would turn out to be equally fantastic as the book itself.
