baci's book club - October/November 2011 - One Day

Ok, first off I 100% apologize for the delay in this baci's book club post - not only did I not get a chance to finish the book before our meeting, I feel like I've been running around like a crazy person ever since I did finish it ;o)  So, once again, very sorry, but better late than never, right?  Lol!

So here goes - we met on October 20th at my home and the book of the month was One Day by David Nicholls.

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Here is a little introduction to the book from Mr. Nicholls' site. . . "15th July 1988. Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways.  So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year which follows?  One Day is a funny/sad love story spanning twenty years, a book about growing up – how we change, how we stay the same."

WARNING, the following discussions may act as a SPOILER!

This one came with incredibly mixed reviews from the group, in fact some of the ladies who finished early recommended the other ladies not even bother reading it!  It's been a long time since we've had something so few people liked, but it's bound to happen every now and again.  Myself and a few others enjoyed the book, but we wouldn't ever say it was on our favorites list ;o)

I think the lack of interest was a combination of many things - the chapters were long and included a lot of needless information; Dex was incredibly awful and downright disturbing for most of the book; Emma lacked excitement and was sort of boring some of the time; and last but certainly not least, after drudging through all of that, the ending was quite possibly the most shocking and sad thing ever.

The hubby and I have the movie in our queue and I'm hoping the shortened version will be a bit better than the book. . . it didn't get the best reviews either so we'll see.  The preview really does look great and the premise behind the whole thing is wonderfully unique, I'm just afraid the characters were a bit too intense for readers.  We would love to know what you thought!

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For next month we've chosen The Girls from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow - it's a unique story of a group of women and their forty-year friendship!  We're meeting on Thursday, December 15th - see you then ;o)