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Sarah Allen  |  Features  |  Secular Shelf Life
Date posted:  1 Apr 2013
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THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
By John Green
Penguin. 336 pages. £7.99
ISBN 978 0 141 345 659

Ask a teenager what they are reading and, if they are, it will no doubt be something online.

A strange kind of internet-word-of-mouth now exists which creates self-sustaining international crazes. The Fault in our Stars is a book which was bound to succeed, written as it was by John Green, a Twitter–user who has over one million followers and whose weekly video-blogs on YouTube are watched by loads more. He’s also a New York Times book reviewer and has written other very successful teen (Young Adult?) books.

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