So I will be honest here and say: I don't get what the big deal is over this book.... Yes, it's pretty good writing and I liked the characters well (or didn't as Green intended) enough but did I cry? Nope. Yes it was sad that (view spoiler)[Augustus dies (hide spoiler)] but did I cry over it like I cried over character deaths in other books, absolutely not. It wasn't that sad. Not sure why I didn't but I think it's because a)in part I inherently knew it was going to happen and b)I didn't really identify with the characters. They're teens, they have cancer, two things I've never really experience (I mean of course I was a teen once) but I didn't connect with them the way I have when other characters I was attached to died. So overall, it was a good book but I don't feel it's this masterpiece that everyone was making it out to be. Also, there were large chunks of text that weren't necessary and just added rambling esoteric thoughts that didn't have anything do with the plot and that was really annoying. So overall I give it 2.6 stars.