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Please tell me how The Slap ends! (Spoilers hopefully!)

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Kenanddreary · 30/07/2013 09:49

Well that's it really....I have got to the penultimate section (Aisha) but just cannot summon the motivation to finish the book. It just seems to be dragging on and I can't be bothered with it any more but would like to know how it all ends. Anyone else felt like this? Thanks.

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Technoprisoners · 30/07/2013 09:55

Can't help you, I'm afraid ... I read the book a while ago and was so bored by it that I've forgotten the ending. I don't like not finishing books so I made myself get to the end, but I really hated it. Terrible book. I left it on a park bench, walked away a few paces, looked back and it had already gone. Pooooof.

Kenanddreary · 30/07/2013 10:06

I totally agree Techno. I hate not finishing books too but just can't do it this time! Especially when I have so many potentially good ones lined up on my shelf!

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Cheeseatmidnight · 30/07/2013 10:10

Watch the programme Smile

AvonCallingBarksdale · 01/08/2013 21:19

God that was a shit read Hmm I think the family with the boy who got slapped move away, and that is literally all I can remember!

blueemerald · 01/08/2013 21:24

Another one who started it and didn't finish. Think I managed 2-3 chapters.

gloucestergirl · 01/08/2013 21:32

I finished it. I think the gay boy went to a party. By the way, the bloke got away with the slap and the magistrate apologised for wasting his time as little Hugo (?) was obviously such a right pain.

Did anyone see the tv version? They changed a lot (he didn't get away with it). Which always begs the question for me - why bloody bother if you didn't think it was good enough without improvement?

For me, it tried to be like Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities but rather than the simemring racial tensions of New York in the 80's it was spoilt Aussies in Melbourne who do-some-drugs-and-have-some-sex shocker.

valiumredhead · 01/08/2013 22:03

I have never hated a book as much as The Slap, Gone Girl is a close second....

NumTumDeDum · 01/08/2013 22:07

Nothing really happened. Teenage girl fessed up, I vaguely recall. A book full of thoroughly unpleasant people being unpleasant. I hated it.

iwouldgoouttonight · 01/08/2013 22:16

It was a crap book, I made myself finish it but cannot remember for the life of me what it was about. I just remember it being a chore.

Kenanddreary · 02/08/2013 22:22

I feel better about not finishing the book now Grin. So glad I didn't waste any more time on it. Good to know others felt the same.

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SarahAndFuck · 07/08/2013 01:22

It's hard to explain because the chapters were from the POV of different characters, so where the book ends we are only seeing one person's POV.

Aisha found out about the affair and eventually realised it was with Connie, the teenage girl working part time at Aisha's vet surgery. I think in the book she sacks her.

She finds out because the teenage boy, Richie, tells Rosie and her husband that Aisha's husband, Hector, raped Connie.

Connie had lied to Richie about this, because Hector ended their affair.

Rosie and her husband force a big confrontation, under the guise of being concerned for Connie and Aisha but really to get their own back. Rosie is angry at Aisha because she let slip the information that allowed Harry to walk away from court, the husband has always hated Aisha and feels she is stuck up.

Connie lies again and says Richie is making it all up. He then goes along with this but Aisha realises the truth anyway and I think she sacks Connie.

I think Harry gets away with slapping Hugo, Rosie is humiliated in court because it comes out that she once abandoned Hugo and drove for three hours to stay at a hotel. I think she had PND at the time. This is the information Aisha had spoken about.

I think Hector and Aisha decide to give their marriage another try, after she goes abroad for a conference and also has an affair. I think Aisha is also forced to attend a party at Harry and his wife's house, which the family see as her finally taking their side over Rosie's. Aisha has struggled because she knows Harry is violent and once broke his wife's cheekbone. I don't think that comes out in court and Aisha feels guilty because she knows it could have changed the outcome of the case.

At the end of the book, the last chapter is Richie's story, he gets a date with another boy and they all go off to some festival thing and he makes up with Connie.

I may be confusing some little bits with the TV series, but I think that's the gist of the book.

Lighthousekeeping · 07/08/2013 12:00

I really enjoyed the tv show. Hated the book though.

SarahAndFuck · 07/08/2013 13:23

I didn't hate the book.

I thought I did, but weeks later it was still playing on my mind and so I read it again. And I watched the TV show shortly afterwards and didn't hate that either.

I got more out of the book the second time I read, but they are still the biggest group of self-absorbed, spoilt excuses for characters I have read about in a long time.

I was kind of hoping that was the point but I got the feeling the author thought we should like them. Anouk was okay, and Aisha to a point. The others annoyed me.

Reality · 07/08/2013 13:26

It's one of only a few books I've never finished.

I HATED it. I didn't realise so many people felt the same, I feel quite vindicated now.

The other recent one was that JK Rowling one. It was so bleak, and I had an inkling what was going to happen, so I googled it and decided to spare myself the pain.

Rufus43 · 07/08/2013 22:45

Everyone dies! Oh no wait, that's what I hoped would happen to them

I used to fancy emigrating to Australia , this put me right off the idea!

SarahAndFuck · 08/08/2013 00:05

I actually hated the smug teens in The Slap more than the crap adults.

Smug teens are the reason I had to give up on Australian soaps. It was the godawful Bridget in Neighbours that finally ended my on-off relationship with Ramsey Street for good.

Although I did tune back in for the episode in which she died, and even then they didn't have the decency to kill her off during the operating to remove the stick from her arse, they had to do some fantasy death with topiary and fancy clock.

Smug teens and death by spider are the reason I won't be emigrating to Australia either.

Kenanddreary · 08/08/2013 20:56

Thank you Sarah Smile. Your version is much better than the book! Grin

Now I know the ending I can forget all about it!

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Dorothy84 · 03/10/2018 10:57

I'm so glad I found this thread because I'm currently reading The Slap and I can't do it any more.

I hate all the characters. The men are filthy pigs and the women are painful stereotypes. I can't stand any of them. The book makes me feel dirty - not just because of all the lewd sex, though that's a contributer.

Thanks everyone for echoing my thoughts and thank you Sarah for the abridged version of the ending.

I'm so done.

ElleMcFearsome · 06/10/2018 08:01

Well, damn it. I am in the middle of the TV series (the American one) and am liking it so I bought the book. Now I'm not sure whether to bother or not Confused

bringincrazyback · 09/10/2018 21:49

Does it end?? I got about a third of the way through and it didn't feel like it was ever going to.

crabapplecrumble · 15/10/2018 10:41

Boring, overrated, shallow book. Don't waste your time finishing it.

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