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The Pact by Jodi Piccoult .............................What a pile of steaming shoite...........

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MrsGordonRamsay · 15/02/2007 21:51

I was forced to read this for the first ever meeting of the book club I have joined.

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MrsGordonRamsay · 15/02/2007 21:52

Dear God............it was dreadful rubbish.





Oh and yes I am ranting.....

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Sheraz · 15/02/2007 21:52

Isn't it just. Took it on holiday last year, only read it cos had nothing else. Codswallop.

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MrsGordonRamsay · 15/02/2007 21:53

I refused to take it out of the house.

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donnie · 15/02/2007 21:54

would you care to elaborate mrs gr? I ask because I keep seeing that person's books everywhere and have wondered what the fuss is all about....have I done right in not purchasing any of her ( his?) books?

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MrsGordonRamsay · 15/02/2007 21:54

I read my Sisters Keeper about 100 years ago.

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MrsGordonRamsay · 15/02/2007 21:56

As a stand alone book it was not too bad.

It had a clever lawyer and a smartass lawyers research assistant.


I then bought The Pact and guess what...........


It had a clever lawyer and a smartass lawyers research assistant.

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MrsGordonRamsay · 15/02/2007 21:57

So I dumped The Pact as formulaic clap trap.

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MrsGordonRamsay · 15/02/2007 21:57

God I am enjoying this rant.

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MrsGordonRamsay · 15/02/2007 21:59

However, I have joined a book club with some of the Mums from school.


The Mum who started it reads such good books normally and then and then she picks this............

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MrsGordonRamsay · 15/02/2007 22:00

OK rant over.


It is right up there with reading the seedier tabloids. You read it but it must surely be polluting your brain.

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mummytosteven · 15/02/2007 22:04

The end was dire, didn't think the rest of it was that bad, in an over-intense sort of way.

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MrsGordonRamsay · 16/02/2007 10:20

And I still feel the same way about it, this morning.

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FluffyMummy123 · 16/02/2007 10:21

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FioFio · 16/02/2007 10:22

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Whoooosh · 16/02/2007 10:22

Blardy awful-I kept waiting for the twist or something vaguely interesting and guess what?

It was total crap.

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FluffyMummy123 · 16/02/2007 10:23

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MrsGordonRamsay · 16/02/2007 10:35

Yes it was the suicide one.

And as for vanishing acts, she must have started the nucleus for that book in this one.

The Hartes were a family of four, the daughter Kate did a Tracy Barlow in chapter 5, and did not reappear for the whole book.

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marymillington · 16/02/2007 10:37

I read My Sister's Keeper a while back.

I thought it was tripe.

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NurseyJo · 16/02/2007 10:41

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MrsGordonRamsay · 16/02/2007 10:42

Bring it back NJ, otherwise it will be several hours of your life you will never get back.

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Flumpybumpy · 16/02/2007 10:48

My Sisters Keeper was okay, The Pact is crap but Plain Truth is actually good.

Won't be reading anymore of her books though, they all follow the same story idea, so once you have read one you've read them all!!

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themildmanneredjanitor · 16/02/2007 10:57

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kslatts · 16/02/2007 11:14

I like her books and am currently reading Keeping Faith, I agree that The Pact wasn't great but I've enjoyed all her others that I have read.

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NadineBaggott · 16/02/2007 11:21

I like her for an easy read.
I've bought books in the past that won this and that prize and found them a trudge eg Last Orders by Graham Swift - cracking theme that somehow fell flat.

Give me a good old Top 10 paperback and I'll probably be entertained (as long as it s not a girly one!)

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