Every now and then, when we can get hold of enough copies, the
Wrappers all read the same book. This month we were able to get hold of a new library
book club kit and read The Fault in our Stars.
There was a unanimous feeling that it was a sad story laced
with humour. Peter summed it up with
this comment: “It was one of the funniest and saddest books I’ve read. My face
started hurting as I went between laughing and crying.”
Some other comments were:
- The writer character (Peter van Houten) was annoying/irritating.
- Hazel’s parents were control freaks.
- It was sad that Hazel saw herself as a grenade and didn’t want anyone to get close to her.
- What happens to Hazel at the end? We want to know.
Isaac was a very popular character. A comment was made that he didn’t appear as
much as he should have in the movie of the book. Discussion then included movie
related comments. Several Wrappers
agreed that they don’t like movie editions of novels because they like to
imagine the characters themselves rather than be shown pictures from the
movie. There was also quite a strong
feeling that it was off putting that the actors have a sister and brother role in the
Divergent movie but are lovers in The Fault in our Start movie!
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