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Hollywood, Ending

The incredible new novel from the No.1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars

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Hollywood, Ending

By: John Green
Narrated by: Zachary Chastain, Julia Whelan, John Green
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Summary

#1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story.

For rising stars Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity they’ve both been waiting for. Soon the movie is blowing up, and so are their lives – in exciting, but also terrifying, ways.

John Green artfully blends a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story with an examination of the private cost of a public life, in this masterful tale of two young people figuring out who they are, both together and alone.

Tender, heartbreaking and shrewdly funny, Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about finding your someone to trust in an untrustworthy world, and the audacity to pursue the kind of love we all deserve.

"In an era in which more and more people must market themselves on social media, courting the dizzying highs and crushing lows of fame, Green still hopes we'll find something better" - Guardian

"Wise, tender and engaging" - People, Book of the Week

"In the author's anguished portrait of modern fame, the most challenging performance is that of an authentic self...Kai emerges vividly on the page. Green depicts the young man's bewilderment with radiant empathy" - New York Times

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In an era in which more and more people must market themselves on social media, courting the dizzying highs and crushing lows of fame, Green still hopes we’ll find something better
Thought-provoking and captivating
Green’s novel of betrayal and survival, trust and love is a fluent condemnation of the machine of commercialization and a paean to art . . . A spellbinding, tender, incisive, funny, and compassionate story of love and creativity.
Wise, tender and engaging
A classic portrait of young love
Sharply relevant in today’s landscape of constant attention and the pressure of a public life
Green’s storytelling is astute, empathic, and magnetizing
Green’s a tender writer whose abiding concern through all his work is what it takes to remain decent in a ruthless and impersonal world. Once, that might have seemed a sentimental question. Today, it is more crucial than ever
A love story but also an interrogation of modern stardom, art and the struggle to be real in a social media-fueled world of artifice and performance. Come for the Hollywood intel, stay for the breathtaking passages
In the author’s anguished portrait of modern fame, the most challenging performance is that of an authentic self . . . Kai emerges vividly on the page. Green depicts the young man’s bewilderment with radiant empathy
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I recently saw a clip where John Green links Tuberculosis with his new novel, Hollywood, Ending. Andy Warhol's father had Tuberculosis, which profoundly effected Andy Warhol's childhood and subsequently the ways in which he related to his world.

Hollywood, Ending is not just a love story. It's also a deeply moving commentary on the things that we are willing to trade in the new attention economy, and what that costs us both as individuals and society at large.

I genuinely loved this book.

Everything is Tuberculosis, including Hollywood, Ending

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Love this book. Hard to listen in parts because of the subjects but so worth it. The writing is amazing as I expected from John green who has a way of writing love in the best. Loveliest ways!

John green has done it again

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I loved this book enough to listen intently without ever increasing the speed. John Green is one of my favorite authors and even though this book has a different feel to his other novels, I loved it just as much.

Didn't even speed it up

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Through the lens of fame, Green explores something that everyone eventually will experience at some level. The disconnect between who we are, how we see ourselves and the way the world sees us. A puzzle that can only be resolved by understanding the disconnect between how we see others, how they see themselves and who they actually are.

A novel about fame that is actually about everyone.

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The book was average and once I realised the ending, I was bored. I was making the characters more complex in my mind than they actually were on paper.

A bit blah

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