I managed to feel very cold-hearted reading this book. Everyone told me how sad the book and/or the movie are. Yet I wasn't moved to shed a single tear even though I tend to bawl when reading.

That's not to say it's a bad book. I enjoyed reading the story of Hazel, a 17-year old with terminal cancer, who meets a cancer survivor at a support group meeting and falls in love with him. They even get to go to Amsterdam, to meet their favorite author, who turns out to be a giant kind of loser.

Hazel and Gus are charming, sarcastic and realistic about cancer, and so you naturally turn the pages quite quickly, until the not very happy ending. I think I'll pass on the movie, but I did enjoy the book, even though it didn't rock my world.