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Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars

2011-11-25 · John · watch on YouTube · Books & writing · comedy performance

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John reads aloud Chapter 2 of his forthcoming novel The Fault in Our Stars, in which Hazel visits Augustus's house, then plugs the January 10th release, pre-orders and the box set.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; John will read Chapter 2 of The Fault in Our Stars with Penguin's permission; link to Chapter 1

00:00:37 — Hank's permission for a long video, no punishment; recap of Chapter 1 (Hazel, Augustus, V for Vendetta)

  • ★★ John says he has Hank's prior permission for the long video, so viewers who like punishing him should not try. (playful) — 00:00:37 · Hank Green, Punishment
  • ★★ John recaps Chapter 1: Hazel and Augustus meet at a cancer kids' support group; he says she looks like V for Vendetta-era Natalie Portman and invites her to watch it at his house. (fiction) — 00:00:37 · The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel Grace Lancaster

00:01:23 — Reading Chapter 2: Augustus's driving, cancer perks, Hazel's cancer story, the Waters house and encouragements, the basement and free throws, An Imperial Affliction

  • ★ John says he is nervous: apart from recording the audiobook, he has never read the book aloud. — 00:01:23 · The Fault in Our Stars
  • ★★ In the novel, Hazel suspects Augustus's licence was a 'cancer perk': the little things cancer kids get that regular kids don't, like signed basketballs or homework passes. (fiction) — 00:02:50 > «Cancer perks are the little things cancer kids get that regular kids don't.»
  • ★★ Hazel recounts her stage 4 thyroid cancer, diagnosed at 13, nearly dying with fluid in her lungs, and her survival on an experimental drug, Phalanxifor, that fails in most people. (fiction) — 00:03:45
  • ★★ Augustus's parents fill their house with sayings on plaques and pillows that they call 'encouragements'. (fiction) — 00:07:16
  • ★★ Augustus tells how, shooting free throws on his last day with both legs, basketball suddenly seemed pointless and made him think of hurdlers jumping arbitrary obstacles. (fiction) — 00:12:01
  • ★★ Augustus asks for Hazel's story, not her cancer story, and urges her not to become her disease, since cancer is in the business of taking people over. (fiction) — 00:15:10 · Hazel Grace Lancaster
  • ★★ Hazel's favourite book is An Imperial Affliction, a book so personal that recommending it feels like betrayal; Augustus promises to read it and gives her The Price of Dawn. (fiction) — 00:16:31

00:18:45 — Reading Chapter 2 continued: watching V for Vendetta, 'Without pain, how could we know joy?', the drive home and the phone number in the book

  • ★★ Facing the encouragement 'Without pain, how could we know joy?', Hazel dismisses the argument: broccoli existing does not affect how chocolate tastes. (fiction) — 00:19:51 > «the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate»

00:22:24 — Release date January 10th; scribd text, pre-order and box-set links; over the four-minute limit with Hank's permission; Maureen Johnson texts; sign-off

  • ★★★ John says The Fault in Our Stars comes out on January 10th, in about 48 days, and hopes viewers like it. — 00:22:24 · The Fault in Our Stars
  • ★ John says the chapter can also be read as text at scribd.com, with a doobly-doo link. — 00:22:54
  • ★★ John puts links in the doobly-doo to all the places viewers can pre-order the book. — 00:22:54 · The Fault in Our Stars
  • ★★ John says hearing him read the whole book is only possible via the special box set from his last video, thanks to Brilliance Audio; link in the doobly-doo. — 00:22:54 · The Fault in Our Stars
  • ★★ John hopes viewers enjoy the rest of the book and is excited to share it so it is no longer just his. — 00:23:24 · The Fault in Our Stars

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