But it does seem honest, and it will confront you with mess, and deal with that mess without over-harmonizing it, justifying it, or downplaying it. Of course TFIOS is not a perfect novel, and it's not even one of the greatest ever written. Besides, when an overall narrative is worth reading, audiences are often willing to overlook a sloppy over-explanation here or a strained romantic action there. But good luck finding a book - even a Grown Up Book - that doesn't disappoint its readers in some capacity. Does Green sometimes spoil a potentially nice metaphor by explaining why the metaphor is a metaphor? Absolutely.
Does Green at times rely on sentimental conventions? Yes. Are there exchanges of dialogue in TFIOS that will make you roll your eyes? Yes. Well, after having read (and cried through) TFIOS more times than I care to admit, I can say that, regardless of whether or not Graham's concerns over YA fiction are true of other books (for some, yes for some, no) Green's novel doesn't warrant those accusations. Tfios is not a perfect novel, but it does seem honest, and it will confront you with mess
If you have not seen the movie or read the book and intend to, stop reading now.Īs we all recently learned from Ruth Graham at Slate, The Fault in Our Stars is a Young Adult book, and people over the age of 17 ought to be embarrassed to be seen reading it because of the following reasons: YA fiction asks us to "abandon the mature insights" we've acquired as adults YA fiction doesn't contain the "emotional and moral ambiguity of adult fiction" YA fiction is pleasurable and satisfying and because graduating to the adult library stacks will afford us the "thrill of growing up."
Warning: this post contains a major spoiler for The Fault in Our Stars.
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