Lindsay's review
My Sister's Keeper
by Jodi Picoult
Great review. I love how you've dubbed them Leukemia & Spare Parts. I hated that ending too. Not only an easy out for the family but such an easy way for the author to punish the mom for her favoritism with Teh Guilt. If only she had made Leukemia die anyway after she gets the kidney. Double Scoops of Guilt!
Though maybe the mom would have adopted new kids then. Or something.
I agree with you so much. I hated the ending so much, viewing it to be weak. It's as if Picoult ran out of steam and didn't know what to do so she chose the easy way out. She did this in The Pact, too. She has an uncanny knack of picking a great and interesting theme and then disappointing the reading with her lame endings.
I really liked this book, but the ending sucked so badly that it totally ruined the whole thing for me -- like you, I was actually angered by how sucktacularly bad it was.
You forgot the stupid subplot about the arsonist son/firefighter dad. Because there wasn't enough going on.
Love your review. Couldn't agree more. Minor point: it was Lawyer Man who ultimately decided to donate the kidney because he was the court appointed medical guardian or something like that. Not that it makes any difference in the outcome!
Great review. Our reading group has to read a Jodi P. about child abuse (natch) and I think you've just convinced me not to waste any hours of my life by reading it when there are so many more worthwhile books out there!
this book was great, you just have to be moderately intelligent (at least) to understand it's complexity. So i guess i see where you're coming from ;-)
Thanks to all for hating this book as much as I did. What I found particularly disgusting is that there are actually people out there who will think that this is offering an accessible yet incisive take on a contemporary ethical issue when it's utter CRAP! The plotting and charater development are both unbelievably lazy. The whole is appallingly manipulative and about as deep as a soup spoon and as nuanced as a Hallmark card. Blech.
The ending of the book was just the way life is. Unexpected tragedies happen everyday. I think that cop out would have been for Anna to decide to give Kate the kidney, and both of them live happily ever after. It makes the ending more real
Yes, I guess you do need to be moderately intelligent to be able to "understand it is complexity" -- though I'd rather try to "understand its complexity". ;-)
I absolutely agree with you! I hated the ending! When I finished reading it I threw the book across the room as I cried. I just kept complaining to my husband about this book.
I also didn't like the characters - especially the lawyer who named her appliances.
Lindsay's review
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Lindsay's review
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recommended for: Jodi Picoult fans, chick lit fans
** spoiler alert **
Have you ever read a book that really pissed you off? Pissed you off so much all you could do was rant about it until everyone told you to just shut up? This is that book for me.
Picoult's dialogue is excellent, but her characters annoy me and the ending of this book was such a cop-out I almost wrote her an angry letter about it, but decided against it, as she'd never read it anyway.
Basically, "My Sister's Keeper" is about a family with three kids - I forget their real names, so I'm giving them fake ones: Token Boy Child, Leukemia, and Spare Parts. Mom and Dad find out about Leukemia's unfortunate diagnosis when she's just two, so they decide to have another baby - not to replace Leukemia when she inevitably bites it, but to provide Leukemia with spare parts for organ transplants. Spare Parts gets tired of being held back by her sister's needs - and in turn, Leukemia gets tired of holding her sister back; Spare Parts isn't allowed to go to overnight camp and is being f...more
Picoult's dialogue is excellent, but her characters annoy me and the ending of this book was such a cop-out I almost wrote her an angry letter about it, but decided against it, as she'd never read it anyway.
Basically, "My Sister's Keeper" is about a family with three kids - I forget their real names, so I'm giving them fake ones: Token Boy Child, Leukemia, and Spare Parts. Mom and Dad find out about Leukemia's unfortunate diagnosis when she's just two, so they decide to have another baby - not to replace Leukemia when she inevitably bites it, but to provide Leukemia with spare parts for organ transplants. Spare Parts gets tired of being held back by her sister's needs - and in turn, Leukemia gets tired of holding her sister back; Spare Parts isn't allowed to go to overnight camp and is being f...more
Great review. I love how you've dubbed them Leukemia & Spare Parts. I hated that ending too. Not only an easy out for the family but such an easy way for the author to punish the mom for her favoritism with Teh Guilt. If only she had made Leukemia die anyway after she gets the kidney. Double Scoops of Guilt!Though maybe the mom would have adopted new kids then. Or something.
I agree with you so much. I hated the ending so much, viewing it to be weak. It's as if Picoult ran out of steam and didn't know what to do so she chose the easy way out. She did this in The Pact, too. She has an uncanny knack of picking a great and interesting theme and then disappointing the reading with her lame endings.
I really liked this book, but the ending sucked so badly that it totally ruined the whole thing for me -- like you, I was actually angered by how sucktacularly bad it was.
You forgot the stupid subplot about the arsonist son/firefighter dad. Because there wasn't enough going on.
Love your review. Couldn't agree more. Minor point: it was Lawyer Man who ultimately decided to donate the kidney because he was the court appointed medical guardian or something like that. Not that it makes any difference in the outcome!
Great review. Our reading group has to read a Jodi P. about child abuse (natch) and I think you've just convinced me not to waste any hours of my life by reading it when there are so many more worthwhile books out there!
this book was great, you just have to be moderately intelligent (at least) to understand it's complexity. So i guess i see where you're coming from ;-)
Thanks to all for hating this book as much as I did. What I found particularly disgusting is that there are actually people out there who will think that this is offering an accessible yet incisive take on a contemporary ethical issue when it's utter CRAP! The plotting and charater development are both unbelievably lazy. The whole is appallingly manipulative and about as deep as a soup spoon and as nuanced as a Hallmark card. Blech.
The ending of the book was just the way life is. Unexpected tragedies happen everyday. I think that cop out would have been for Anna to decide to give Kate the kidney, and both of them live happily ever after. It makes the ending more real
Yes, I guess you do need to be moderately intelligent to be able to "understand it is complexity" -- though I'd rather try to "understand its complexity". ;-)
I absolutely agree with you! I hated the ending! When I finished reading it I threw the book across the room as I cried. I just kept complaining to my husband about this book. I also didn't like the characters - especially the lawyer who named her appliances.



