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One Hundred Names - Cecelia Ahern

  • 23-10-2012 2:18pm
    #1
    miamee
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    Just finished reading this at the weekend. I have to say, I read P.S. I Love You when it first came out and really liked it (way before the movie) but her next book (Where Rainbows End maybe??) was just nowhere near as good so I never bothered with any more of her books after that.

    I really enjoyed this one though. The story was engaging and not too predictable, interesting enough to keep me reading and get through it in less than a week. That's good for me when I mostly read on the bus :D

    No spoilers - the story is about a journalist, Kitty, who has fecked up an assignment on a tv programme she was working for to the point that they are sued and it has also gotten her in trouble with a magazine she works for. So she is in everyone's bad books. Her close friend who runs the magazine and who is dying from cancer gives her one last assignment - a list of one hundred names without any other clues. Kitty then has to go trying to meet these people, convince them to talk to her and tell her their story and work out how they could all be connected.

    The idea behind it is lovely and it is a feelgood kind of book without being schmaltzy or saccharine IMO. I'm sure it's not to everyone's taste but I enjoyed it and would recommend it to a friend. Has anyone else read it yet? It's half price in Easons :D


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  • #2
    Shivers26
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    That sounds pretty good actually. Although the start of it sounds a bit like The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella.

    Her book Thanks for the Memories was quite good and I did like PS I Love You. The others were pure rubbish.


  • #3
    MagicMarker
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    Yeah, she was on the radio the other day speaking about the book. It sounded really interested, but then I found out she's responsible for giving us PS I Love You so I can't say I'll ever read it. :)


  • #4
    Harry Angstrom
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    I wonder if there'll be a follow up - 100 Names (Part 2), in which the leading character will be given a list of 100 names of the people who ruined this country, starting with the author's father. She must then seek them out and interview them about heir motives, finding most of them living in the lap of luxury what with the big fat pensions and compensation pay offs provided by the author's daddy. :)


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