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Just finished 'me before you'- by jojo moyes- brilliant! (Sniff!)

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spikemomma · 03/02/2013 21:01

Sob... What a lovely, moving, funny, enlightening book! I really didn't think I'd like it - How wrong was I?! Jojo Moyes is a brilliant writer- I'll defiantly read more of her books. Feel all emotionally exhausted now...

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HousewifeFromHeaven · 03/02/2013 22:50

He kills himself?

Fucks sake I've just started this!!!

Kiriwawa · 03/02/2013 22:44

Blimey - total grammar fail in that last post Blush

Kiriwawa · 03/02/2013 22:44

The thing that the naysayers haven't mentioned is that it's about choosing to take your own life as and when you feel like it.

And it does that really really well and I don't know of any other recent novels that have dealt with a young man who is paralysed but otherwise healthy choosing to kill himself.

AnyFucker · 03/02/2013 22:40

Each to their own Smile

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spikemomma · 03/02/2013 22:38

Blimey, talk about burst my balloon! With a very giant needle. That's made me laugh! (Books are so subjective.)

Well, listen, I think I posted this because I was very surprised I liked it. I loath chick lit, hate predictability, didn't warm to the subject matter...but thought I would trust its recommendation and I was pleasantly surprised! It fitted my mood at the time, made me learn a little, laugh a little and release a few cathartic tears. I thought it was surprisingly very lovely. So there! [scarpers....]

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SarkyPants · 03/02/2013 21:59

Sorry. I forgot superficial :)

SarkyPants · 03/02/2013 21:57

Predictable twaddle IMO

AnyFucker · 03/02/2013 21:56

Erk, doesn't sound like my cuppa tea

IThinkOfHappyWhenIThinkOfYou · 03/02/2013 21:51

I hated it. I think i must be dead inside.

AF - Its about a jolly working class girl who lives on a council estate with her parents, sister and grandfather where her mother scrubs the step and makes endless cups of tea probably wearing a housecoat and the dad works in a factory screwing the caps onto toothpaste. She leaves gets a job caring for a quadraplegic man who has rich but icy parents (father having an affair). He pygmalions her by going to the symphony, making her read books and watching subtitled films and she behaves in a staggeringly crass manner. She is gang raped whilst hanging out with youths, in a maze, drinking and wearing high heels to which he responds 'some mistakes have bigger consequences than others'. or something. She tries to make his ex jealous by sitting on his knee and contorting herself to rest her head on his shoulder whilst wearing a sexy dress. If you could die from cringing I would be deep in the cold, cold ground.

AnyFucker · 03/02/2013 21:41

What is it about (briefly) please ?

bigbadbarry · 03/02/2013 21:37

I loved it - it was not at all what I was expecting from the cover.

girlsyearapart · 03/02/2013 21:36

Another one I've read recently and really enjoyed was 'Between a mother and her child' by Elizabeth noble

girlsyearapart · 03/02/2013 21:34

Also loved that book as has everyone I've passed it on to.

It's one of those books that I see someone else reading & feel jealous that I've already finished it.. Blush

bettybyebye · 03/02/2013 21:30

Ooh it's fab isn't it, I couldn't put it down. Found I couldn't stop thinking about it either, utterly thought provoking. Can really recommend "the ship of brides" also by jojo moyes Smile

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