The Memory Keepter's Daughter. Nope. Don't get it.

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Just finished it and baffled by its success. Interesting premise but so drearily written. Poor characterisation. Don't get it at all. What's the appeal?

I read it and found it disturbing and vair sad although poorly written

That's 2 days of my life I shan't get back

I know. I skim read the last bit and still felt I'd wasted time.

I quite enjoyed it funnily enough. I can't remember much of the details though.

Oh I liked it, very sad though

It did seem to go on and on though and meander a bit. Not exactly short and punchy.

Haven't read it because the title makes me think 'Time traveller's wife', 'Daughter of whereveritwas', 'Bookseller of Kabul'. It seems that 'The X of Y' is a particular genre of fiction now.

Although of those I have only read the beginning of the Time Traveller's Wife, which I hated, so I have no idea if there is actually any similarity between them at all, they just all seem to be sitting in the same area of lit fiction lite.

OMG nooooo tis miles better than TTW. It didn't make me want to kill anyone for a start.

Well I also liked Time Traveler's Wife if that tells you anything midnightexpress

And I gave on the Thousand SUns book

Impenetrable, to me at least

I know what you mean, Midnight Express. The Memory Keeper's Daughter The Time Traveller's Wife. The The Apothecary's Nephew. I made that last one up but it could easily be a real title.

I enjoyed it, but I also found it interesting as my uncle was born around that time and has down's.

The Shoemaker's Great Aunt
The Quantity Surveyor's Nanny
The Rat Catcher's Friend of the family.....

The Mumsnetter's Husband.

Ah yes, NFK, in which our zero hero takes himself off to India and buys a motorbike to cycle home through the bazaars of Samarkand, the alleyways of old Isanbul and the fleshpots of Berlin, leaving his wife alone with their newborn baby for 6 weeks?

The Apothecary's Nephew definitely plausible though.

I enjoyed it. Havent read any of those other ones though.

I thought that it was crap.

I liked 1000 splendid suns though.

I much preferred TTW to TMKD.

Something made me by the next book she had written, but didn't realise until I started the bloody thing that it was all short stories. Short stories with no sodding endings.

I have this in my reading pile along with Splendid Suns and Kevin.
I just finished The Book Thief last night and not sure what to start next?

Maybe I'll go for the rubbishy Lisa Keyplas book instead!

"I much preferred TTW to TMKD."

Me too.

The Glassblower's Stepdaughter.
The Soothsayer of Azerbaijan.
The Paperweight Collector.

Easy, this, isn't it?

memory keepers daughter could have been so much better, good idea for a story but crap writing.

dont even bother watching the film, dh was not feeling great and had fallen asleep on me and i could not rach the control. i had to sit right through it as i did not want to wake him by moving him

I read it in desperation on holiday last year and thought it was utter, utter shite.

I did like The TT's Wife though.

The Horse-Leech of High Wycombe
The Toad Sexer's Tennis Partner

irritates the pants off me

oh i loved the book but i was very disappointed with the film ,

So the formula is:

The of

or

The of

Thus:

The carpet-seller of Baghdad
The diamond merchant of St Petersburg
or
The Wheelwright of Clovelly

or

The Mayor of Casterbridge