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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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NurseyJo · 16/02/2007 10:41

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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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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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FluffyMummy123 · 16/02/2007 10:23

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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.

FioFio · 16/02/2007 10:22

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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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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 · 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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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 21:57

God I am enjoying this rant.

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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 21:56

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 21:54

I read my Sisters Keeper about 100 years ago.

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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 21:53

I refused to take it out of the house.

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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 21:52

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

Oh and yes I am ranting.....

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