Just properly cried. Big fat tears and snot and all. Over 'Me Before You' by Jojo Moyes..

[edam]

It's an amazing book. Even though I knew about the issues, in a depersonalised, not happened to anyone I know, ind of way, even though you know what's happening... it still got me right in the solar plexus. Read it and weep!

[stealthsquiggle]

Made me blub too. Inconveniently, I was on a plane at the time.

[RayofSun]

Agree, a really good read and quite sensitively written without victimising the character. Love a good blub!

[edam]

Stealth - an appropriate enough location, in a way...

My absolute favourite author is Terry Pratchett, so it made me think about his situation again. His wife chose not to take part in the documentary he made about Dignitas, where they filmed the moment a man died. I can't imagine Sir Terry's pain, and I can't imagine hers, either. But I think (and may have got this wrong) that she does not agree with his wish to go to Dignitas when the time comes (well, actually, I think he wants to end it all in his own garden with a glass of good wine, but the crappy laws in this country prohibit that). Unbelievably hard.

[redandyellowbits]

Just finished it too :( Loved it.

[purrpurr]

Absolutely loved this, too, and loved it more on the second read. Stunning.

[SlowJinn]

I've just downloaded this, I'm looking forward to reading it. Thanks for the recommendation!

[kslatts]

great book, I read it very quickly as I couldn'r put it down.

[edam]

Hope you enjoy it, Slow.

[leakyR]

I finished it in 2 days and blubb all over too. Thankfully, I was at home on my own. A good therapeutic cry, brought on by a well written book is a rare and marvellous thing.

[Wolfcub]

Made me cry too. I was on a train at the time. Highly embarrassing

[valiumredhead]

Made me cry too, especially as I had no idea what it was about!

[AnonYonimousBird]

It was a cracker, I blubbed a few times! Some might say it's a bit over-sentimentalized (my MIL!), but I don't think I agree.

Her other book, The Girl I Left Behind, however, is utter tosh. She definitely peaked with Me Before You!!!!

[trice]

I read it for a book club. I thought it was a steaming pile of horseshit. It gets rave reviews all over the Internet. I seriously think I must have been reading a different book.

The one I read had a feeble dizzy woman who got a well paid job hoovering for a quadriplegic (not doing any nasty dirty caring bits). Who then takes himself off to dignitas and leaves her a fortune so she can continue to be all quirky and annoying. It was utter bollocks. Imo.

[valiumredhead]

Why should she do 'all the dirty bits?' That wasn't in her job and there was a male nurse to do that for him.

I feel the same about Gone Girl - I read a shit, badly written book, others read a thriller

[trice]

I think he should have left his money to his carer. I found him a more sympathetic character.

[mrsshackleton]

Unimpressed too, thought it was manipulative Mills and Boon

[sooperdooper]

I'm with trice I thought it was a pile of crap, and seems to utterly divide opinion

There?s a terrible plot flaw where it says Wills dad was a high powered business man and started working at the castle in his retirement, but then it talks about Will & his sister playing in the grounds as children, how on earth didn?t that get picked up?

I have a family member in a similar position and I think the patronising way the general public?s reaction is portrayed is outdated and fairly offensive ? I?m not saying things are perfect but people do not, as a matter of course stare open mouthed like idiots at someone in a wheelchair, and someone on the dance floor at a wedding in a wheelchair isn?t some kind of never before seen spectacle, people in general are helpful and kind.

[sooperdooper]

Oh and I was also irritated by the way that Wills character didn't get a chapter from his viewpoint, since he was really the main character that made no sense, and would've possibly made it more balanced

[merlottits]

I thought it was over-sentimental 'mills and boon' type drivel. Bad writing. Improbably storyline. Big pile of poo.
I just don't get the appeal.

[merlottits]

The female character was utterly dizzy and pathetic with no redeeming qualities. It 'felt' written by a 12 year old.

[Ragwort]

Agree with trice - I did read it one night (insomnia whilst staying away from home, no other choice of book ) - but it was so lightweight, as mrsshackleton says, total Mills and Boon.

[valiumredhead]

She was meant to be dizzy and pathetic and immature - her 'development' had been stunted by her history, that was the whole point.

[ThePendant]

Awful clichéd tripe. IMO.

[valiumredhead]

That's not my experience of being in a chair soop mine was 'over helpful' or staring right through me.

The trip to the races was just like a day out for me - SUCH a palaver it barely seemed worth leaving the house some days.

The shaving scene was just so romantic imo - beautifully written.

[edam]

I spent just a couple of hours once, accompanying a wheelchair-using woman around London by bus (for a feature when they brought in accessible buses). Afraid to say there was plenty of staring, and tutting, and bloody-mindedness. She dealt with that all day every day - must take incredible strength of mind not to shout obscenities at many of the people who stare or shove past or are other otherwise selfish or unhelpful.