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One day?

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beguilingeyes · 19/02/2024 10:09

Is it just me? did anyone else hate this book? I've read it twice now and really didn't like it very much.
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He's horrible to her all her life and then we're supposed to feel sorry for him?

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IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 21/02/2024 07:57

Hoppitybobbins · 20/02/2024 23:55

I don’t think you would like the book if you were not their age. The whole 90s thing is really significant. The way young people were in the 90s was just like this. Lots of friends with benefits type stuff and an innocence before phones etc. unless you find your own story in between the pages somewhere then I admit it would be a pretty banal book and agree the ending sucks. But it does have merit just for nostalgia.

Agreed. I love it in all formats, but then fictional Emma and Dexter graduated 4 years before me. I totally relate to the music, fashions, lifestyles etc.

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beguilingeyes · 21/02/2024 07:53

Pemba · 21/02/2024 02:44

Yes I didn't understand all the hype with it either. I tried it once and thought it was very sloppily written, there were details that didn't tie up. Like the age of Dexter's mum in relation to his sister. If the author can't be bothered I definitely can't! Maybe he's become a bit complacent due to success.

I think I've quite liked other things he's written though.

Then with the film all I remember is Anne Hathaway's wavering accent. Things like that can throw you out of the story.

Don't watch the new Mandy Patinkin crime thing then...we spent the whole first episode trying to work out what the accent was supposed to be (British).

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Pemba · 21/02/2024 02:44

Yes I didn't understand all the hype with it either. I tried it once and thought it was very sloppily written, there were details that didn't tie up. Like the age of Dexter's mum in relation to his sister. If the author can't be bothered I definitely can't! Maybe he's become a bit complacent due to success.

I think I've quite liked other things he's written though.

Then with the film all I remember is Anne Hathaway's wavering accent. Things like that can throw you out of the story.

Hoppitybobbins · 20/02/2024 23:55

I don’t think you would like the book if you were not their age. The whole 90s thing is really significant. The way young people were in the 90s was just like this. Lots of friends with benefits type stuff and an innocence before phones etc. unless you find your own story in between the pages somewhere then I admit it would be a pretty banal book and agree the ending sucks. But it does have merit just for nostalgia.

DahliaMacNamara · 20/02/2024 23:49

I read it through to the bitter end, then gave it to a charity shop for some other poor sap to suffer it. I'm not one to give away books lightly; I need to be really really sure I won't pick it up again in 20 years' time first. It's put me off even looking at any subsequent novels.

Hoppitybobbins · 20/02/2024 23:47

I totally get your point but I think it has aged and that Dexter was participating in the lad culture of the day, the lad culture that everyone, including the women, just accepted. So it’s not aged well perhaps. But I loved it as I grew up in the same era and really identified with Emma.

TheAverageJoanne · 20/02/2024 23:43

PoppingTomorrow · 20/02/2024 17:55

I prefer Versions of Us

That was excellent.

PoppingTomorrow · 20/02/2024 17:55

I prefer Versions of Us

purpleme12 · 20/02/2024 17:45

I really feel like I should read it again now just to remember it!
I think it was a good book but can't really remember any more detail! It must have been years ago I read it!

happinessischocolate · 20/02/2024 17:42

I didn't like the book, I'm not even sure I finished it which would be very unusual for me. I loved the recent series.

notanothernana · 20/02/2024 12:15

I love it. Book, film and series.

fournaansjeremy · 20/02/2024 08:32

I remember it being the only book I've ever thrown at a wall on finishing it.

ErrolTheDragon · 20/02/2024 08:28

I didn't like it, certainly not one I'd waste time re-reading or watching dramatised.

TheAverageJoanne · 20/02/2024 08:25

I've not read it but I did watch the film years ago and I remember nothing other than Anne Hathaway getting knocked off her bike.

I searched for One Day and only this thread came up. I've been listening to Zoe Ball's breakfast show and people are phoning in sobbing about the Netflix series "I'm a broken woman", "whatever you do don't watch it you'll need help", "I needed to call my friend for support" I mean what's wrong with some people? Is it attention seeking or feeling a need to be part of something collectively?

BarbaraBuncle · 19/02/2024 13:01

I hated it too. I don't understand its popularity and won't be watching it on Netflix. I couldn't get through the previous film, either.

teenagetantrums · 19/02/2024 10:31

I read it years ago, can't really remember it, tried to watch it on Netflix and gave up, don't understand the hype.

CrossPurposes · 19/02/2024 10:30

I was and do remain baffled by its popularity.