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Scribbles About Books: The Fault In Our Stars (also movie comparison)

I recently finished The Fault in Our Stars after back to back John Green Books and here are my thoughts on it. I really love John Green's writing. I think its amazingly symbolic and you could probably read one book 20 times and find a different meaning for it each time... which is why I find different meanings in the movies compared to some of the books... which I mentioned in my review of the Paper Towns Movie...  I held off on reading this book or seeing the movie for a long time because of how teenagers kind of get with these things. I feel like there's sort of a glamorization of being sick or being near death that has happened recently and I think this book may have caused that little trend... however this book doesn't glamorize the situation at all. It shows all the struggles of real relationships, as well as in a relationship between 2 teenage cancer patients. It shows all the hard parts of helping the other when they're sick, how hard it is to be with som...

Scribbles about Movies: Horns Review (with spoilers)

So I just finished the book Horns yesterday and I decided to watch the movie a little after. And... I can recommend the book... but not so much the movie. Lol. It wasn't bad, if I hadn't read the book I would think "ohhh this is okay." But I did read it and it wasn't. They changed everything important from the book. The book uses a lot of time jumps as a way to show the background of each character and you really understand why they do the things they do. Its a big book, everything is explained in great detail and it all makes sense. We see flashbacks of Lee and Ig as kids and see how Lee talks about women. He talks about wanting girls to be "cherry" and virginal or innocent looking. It shows that he is insane and that yeah he killed Merrin. Also in the book Merrin's sister dies of cancer and she is really awful to Merrin and her father and said unforgivable things. Merrin didn't want to be like that and she didn't want to put Ig through th...