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You will love this family and more importantly you will love Marley. You need to feel the power and emotion behind John Grogan's words. When I seemed to be at my wits end with my dog, someone begged me to read Marley and Me before I took her back to the pound. It is the story of a dog and the role he plays in his owner's lives as they journey through the ups and down of life and the journey into civilized adulthood.Right from the start Marley terrorizes the peaceful life John and Jenny have created. I quickly realized I had made a huge mistake. Anyone who has ever loved a dog will love this book.
Please, please, please don't just settle for the movie. He destroys their house and pushes them to their limits. By the end of the story, they realize that even with his antics Marley has played an important role in the story of their lives.I got a puppy shortly after college when I was living on my own. As I finished the book I hugged Rizz through a haze of tears and promised her she would live out all her days with me. The situation only gets worse as the couple begin to have children. While Marley and Me may technically be nonfiction, it reads like a beautiful work of fiction.
They constantly go back and forth on whether to keep Marley or find him a new home. I still have Rizz, and she's my best friend.Marley and Me is heart-wrenching and beautifully written.
From puppy to adult to old age and sadly, his death, Marley was definitely a part of the Grogan family. Enjoy. The Grogan family was definitely blessed to have such a unique dog. Marley proved, while growing up, to be an oversized, over-eating, unconventional and irascible dog. This is a not-to-be-missed book; make sure you pick it up, and the movie as well.
The novel is solidly written and while the movie sticks pretty much to the book, there's so much more detail of the life of John Grogan, his family, and good old Marley that you'll want to make sure and pick up both movie and book.John Grogan was a reporter turned columnist in South Florida when he and his bride Jenny purchased an adorable little puppy and named him Marley, after Bob Marley. in other words, Marley was a holy terror.John began to write about Marley in his newspaper columns, and soon all of South Florida knew and loved Marley and his antics. John Grogan is a very talented writer (well, he does it for a living) and tells Marley's tale in this book with talent, humor, tragedy, and finesse. Ten Stars. I simply had to have this book after watching the movie.
Breaking away from the leash and running off, humping poodles and other things, failing obedience classes and humiliating the instructor, crawling out of a moving car, eating Jenny's beautiful necklace John bought her when she first found out she was pregnant, jumping on people, chewing on anything in the house, howling at thunderstorms, tobogganing down a hill on top of John. That John Grogan took his pen and turned his memoirs of life with Marley into a book is a blessing, allowing all readers to enjoy the antics of the world's worst dog.
My only complaint is that the paperback's text was too small and it a bit difficult to read. My puppy is nothing like Marley except his appetite lol. I love this book. This book made me really wanting to own a puppy again. I would recommend this book to all dog lovers.
Not much to review, other than I thoroughly am enjoying this book with the laughs and tears associated with it.
For great dog stories I recomend Call of the Wild, White Fang or Where the Red Fern Grows. I am normally the worlds biggest sucker for a dog story but I really didn't care for this. I have been around dogs my whole life and never seen one that behaves bad enough to even be comparable to this one. To be honest I think the author loosely based this on reality with the thought of massive book sales and a movie deal in mind from the beginning. A "true" story about two yuppies who buy a dog because they think it will be good "training" for them when they have kids and it goes from there. The dog is incredibly destructive and seemingly untrainable. The humor seemed a bit forced and while it is always sad when a dog dies the ending seemed contrived.
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