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I've just read The Gift - did you like it?

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stroppyknickers · 29/12/2008 13:12

Because I hated the sugary sappiness of the first one she did, but a friend got me this for christmas. It's just a copy of trading places/ meet joe black isn't it - and the SPOILER ALERT lecture at the end? How does this stuff get printed?

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PuzzleRocks · 29/12/2008 16:51

bump

LoveMyGirls · 29/12/2008 20:53

I've just had this for christmas and read it i've found it quite thought provoking and quite glad I live my life the way I do tbh.

stroppyknickers · 30/12/2008 10:01

oh. maybe i am too old for it. just each page was such a cliche.

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LoveMyGirls · 30/12/2008 10:14

It was full of cliche's but that's what made it something you could identify with imo it's a typical story but I liked the way she worded it and I liked Gabe and I knew the point but was still irritated by the ending why go to the effort of helping him so much then let him do what he did? I did like the way he went and saw his family because that is what you would do if you could iywim.

stroppyknickers · 30/12/2008 10:29

I hated Gabe - Calling him Gabriel and then hinting he is death? Gabriel announced the birth of Jesus, and I don't think the author was paralleling some rebirth experience, I think it was just a lazy biblical reference (and no, I am not churchy). The ending was so rubbish (am ranting now!) - that Jessica and her hisband - what was the point of dhoving that in?

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