Fiction

raccoon

(31,419 posts) Tue Mar 19, 2013, 07:36 AM Mar 2013

Anyone read THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER? Started off good POSSIBLE SPOILERS

but then it just dragged...............

I made it thru about 3/4 of the book (a co-worker told me it was worth it to hold out until the end), then
I couldn't take it any more, and committed the egregious sin of looking at the end to see how it came out.

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Anyone read THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER? Started off good POSSIBLE SPOILERS (Original Post) raccoon Mar 2013 OP

Didn't read the book but Ineeda Mar 2013 #1

Yes, it is a favorite of mine libodem Mar 2013 #2

I read it a while back SheilaT Mar 2013 #3

Ineeda

(3,626 posts)

1. Didn't read the book but

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Tue Mar 19, 2013, 09:55 AM

Mar 2013

saw the movie, which wasn't bad. Pretty predictable though.

libodem

(19,288 posts)

2. Yes, it is a favorite of mine

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Tue Mar 19, 2013, 08:19 PM

Mar 2013

It all connects in the end. You just have to take the journey. I saw the film, too. It was a Hallmark, but not too, bad.

Reminds me that I read a Wally Lamb book just before or after, that about twins, one with schizophrenia.

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)

3. I read it a while back

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Wed Mar 20, 2013, 01:40 PM

Mar 2013

and thought it was overrated. Like you I thought it started out well but ended poorly.

There are an awful lot of books out there like that any more, and I just don't understand why.

The most egregious example, in my opinion, was "Cold Mountain". Up to the very last chapter it was excellent, with wonderful language that I just loved. The final chapter? Excuse me, I absolutely did not by that ending. I don't see real people behaving like that.

So I wish I knew why so many books do stuff like that. Are the writers using some sort of novel-writing software that tells them they must absolutely have some kind of a twist at the end? Do the editors demand it? Are the writers so lacking in imagination they can't come up with something better?

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