Anyone read One Day by David Nicholls?

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What did you think?

Anna Hathaway - really? Oh no, she's all wrong. Surely, Emma is pretty in an accessible way. If she was Anne Hathaway pretty there's no way she'd just be shagging bearded married Head Masters on the staff room floor.

I gave up on it halfway through, then started again after some comments on another board. Good writing, in that it flows easily, but I didn't care enough about the people. I should have cared about Emma, had all the right traits etc but she didn't develop at all over 20 years and it became frustrating.

Did anyone else notice that at one point Dexter said his sister was 34 and then on the next page that his mother was 49. Obv she could have been a teenage mother but that wasn't the impression I got if the character.

That sort of sloppy editing really annoys me!

Dexter was an utter waste of space. I kept trying to find his redeeming features, but he had none. Why was Emma so obsessed and forgiving of him?

Yes, completely unbelievable that she wouldn't have woken up to what a knob Dexter was over 20 years. So, totally implausible that she would have married him. Emma was supposed to have had her head screwed on

i dont care i loved it

And he used the word "chi-chi" on consequecutive pages

Decorhate the age thing bothered me too, but I enjoyed it. Not intellectually stimulating but a good read.

I just finished it last night and sobbed

All the way through I kept wondering who would play them in the film!

Oh I loved it and I hate chick lit. I think it was more bloke's lit actually. A funnier Nick Hornby. Have just read Starter for Ten and actually LOLd. Don't think I've ever done that with a book. Brian is such a loser and yet so very very funny.

have just got this out of library

will report back when read

Really loved it. Liked the 1990's parts, lots of associations with my own life. Haven't cried at a book in a long time.

I read it after I'd heard all the hype, which is always a mistake, as looking back I guess it never really had a chance to live up to the expectations. Agree totally with said, but I found both of the main characters rather two-dimensional. The ending was so predictable it was almost mind-numbing; he couldn't give it a happy ending for fear of losing the 'edginess' so instead delved into the EastEnders handbook for wrapping up loose ends. I felt a little bit for Emma at the end, though, but I could never really detach myself from David Nicholls, 'the author', if you understand me. He always seemed to be holding the characters on a leash.

I enjoyed it, although Dexter was such a knob, I almost stopped reading several times. I found it interesting following both their lives through a period of history I remember almost as a contemporary of the characters. Dialogue very sparky too.

I just finished it on Sunday and really enjoyed it.

dexter was a nob

emma should have stayed in paris

i was at the ending but bet you all saw it coming a mile off thought was v appropriate though

not surprised nick hornby rates it, thought it was very him...