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Product Detail Information:
ASIN:0060817097
Sales Rank: 462
Catalog:Book
Binding:Paperback
Product Group:Book
Product Type:Abis Book
Release Date: 2008-03-11
Manufacturer:Harper Paperbacks
EAN: 9780060817091
Publication Date: 2008-03-01
Number Of Items: 1



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AFun Book
9/7/2008
My Daughter gave me this book to read and was it fun. I was reading it on the plane and started laughing out loud as I could relate to some of Marley's antics. It is easy to read and very enjoyable. He may have been a bad boy but loveable and loyal to the very end.
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Meh
9/6/2008
Having raised several Labradors from puppyhood to senescence, I was quite taken by Marley's hilarious and ultimately tragic tale. Grogan perfectly describes the incredible stubbornness and insanity of a Labrador's temperament. As for the rest of the book: I'm sure in the author's mind, the story of the his marriage/family/career is inseparable from the story of his dog, but... it was totally self-absorbed and utterly banal. His thoughts on mortality and the legacy of 9/11 were one of the most trite, sentimental, unoriginal things I have ever read. He'd do well writing for the NYPost.
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Not exactly running to finish it...
9/6/2008
My cherished Rottweiler that I had since I was an adolescent died right before her 12th birthday. Unlike Grogan, she was always in the care of an adoring family member when I traveled. I brought her home to pass away in my arms rather than leaving her in a clinic after spending close to $3,000 I didn't have to give her a comfortable natural death surrounded by those who loved her. Thinking I could use some comfort and some insight into the Labrador breed, since I brought 2 Lab sibling puppies into my home a few months before, I decided to buy a copy of this book.

Let's put it this way. My 2 lab puppies were left for dead in a small Texas town on the side of a highway. They were infested with parasites, showed signs of being beaten, starving to death, and nearly feral. Despite this adversity, these are two very loving, well-trained creatures. With minimal training and me holding a full-time job, mind you. This dog was beyond neurotic...and I wonder if it's really the dog that is to blame? Garage banishment, babies running around all over the place, a high-strung wife having miscarriages, and the author just like "ok, whatever, bad Marley, bad!" These are highly perceptive creatures sensitive to the world around them...I would be neurotic too!

They should call this book "Marley and Me: a Trying to Conceive Journey." I am a single female surrounded by many women my age who seem to want to do nothing more than to have babies. If I wanted to have babies, I'd go very well ahead and start trying to have a baby, and get books specifically to help me in that purpose. What sort of uncouth individual, and what self-respecting wife, tolerates her husband providing intimate details about their copulatory habits? I started feeling vomit in the side of my mouth at some points.

I grow ill with the way that these folks with these entitled lives (getting up at 9am for a workday to read the newspaper? must be nice!) think they have to inundate us with every little detail of their screwed up personal lives and then they can just call it a "memoir." This dog was seriously wronged by its owners. Just because you're upper middle class and behave "mainstream" does not entitle you to abuse others, whether two legged or four legged. We are all different, some of us are a little more neurotic than others, but when you get a dog, you choose to accept that dog for who it is and what it stands for in your life.

Just my two cents.
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Very funny but so, so sad
9/6/2008
Lots of cute and funny stories about Marley. Yes, the author is a little self-serving and there really is no introspection here (unless you count what Marley's doing - he's the most insightful character in the book, but maybe that's a good thing). I laughed out loud a lot. I also resolved never to get a Lab. I sobbed my eyes out towards the end of the book - I don't even think I've ever cried before while reading a book, much less sobbed. I actually took off a point for that - it's just too heartbreaking - and for the long-winded ending. I can recommend the book with reservations - if you are OK with being just as sad at parts as you are happy at others, go for it. But if you are looking for light-hearted escapism, choose something else.
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Just Awful
9/6/2008
I started out hoping for some kind of drama, eventually, but the sickening sweetness was unrelenting. Combined with the fact these people had no business owning a large, strong working-breed dog. Gosh, the trouble they got themselves into -- how cute! Still cute. Forever cute. I started to flip through it. Then just flipped to the end. Started disgusted with the owners for one reason, wound up more disgusted for another. If you know anything at all about dogs, do not buy this book.
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