Marley and Me by John Grogan
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- ISBN: 0061687200
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Pub. Date: October 2008
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Comments from the Seller: 2008 Mass Market Paperback Very Good Nice clean copy! May have price sticker on cover and minor shelfwear. Overall a very good book!
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Synopsis
The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life.
John and Jenny were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy—and their life would never be the same. Marley quickly grew into a barreling, ninety-seven-pound steamroller of a Labrador retriever who crashed through screen doors, flung drool on guests, stole women's undergarments, devoured couches and fine jewelry, and was expelled from obedience school. Yet Marley's heart was pure, and he remained a steadfast model of love and devotion for a growing family through pregnancy, birth, heartbreak, and joy, right to the inevitable goodbye.
Biography
John Grogan is the author of the #1 adult bestseller Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog, which inspired the bestselling middle-grade memoir Marley: A Dog Like No Other. He is also the author of the #1 bestselling picture books Bad Dog, Marley! and A Very Marley Christmas. John lives with his wife and three children and their dogs, Gracie and Woodson, in the Pennsylvania countryside.
John Grogan ha sido un premiado reportero grÁfico y columnista por mÁs de veinticinco aÑos. Vive en Pensilvania con su esposa Jenny y sus tres hijos.
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Wonderful book about a not so wonderful dogby Cameron18
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12/03/2009: I thought that Marley & Me was a great book! I would recommend this to friends and family to read. It was extremely entertaining and kept me looking forward to picking it up each evening to read on. It showed a family's love and compassion for their dog, even during hard times or times when he was being a bad dog. This book reminds me of my own dogs who are also Labrador Retrievers, and at times can be a handful. They too can be hard to love. As in the book, they have chewed up our personal treasures and jumped all over friends and family that come to visit. In the book the owner talks constantly about his struggle with Marley's hard to love personality and his fun loving side. It is his innocent, child like nature that keeps his owner's compassion for him a live. Early on it was obvious that Marley needed some tough love and discipline but nothing his owners did seemed to make a difference. As the story progresses his owner begins to write articles about him everyday in the Newspaper that he works for and the stories become popular to his reader's. At one point, in the book, Marley shows such love for Jenny as she struggles with a miscarriage. He puts his head on her lap as though he's knows exactly what happened. I think that was a defining moment for the bond between Jenny and Marley. The details the author writes to describe Marley's behavior are hilarious and actually made me laugh out loud. If I had to choose something that I didn't like, it would be how bad they made Marley out to be the majority of the time. Maybe that's why people say you should own a dog before you have kids. The dog was just a little more hyper than most dogs and very playful. Instead of pointing out so many negative things about the dog they needed to reward him more for things he did right. I liked the message at the end of the book about how a dog will always love you if you love it. Unlike a person it doesn't take much for a dog to love you, it's not necessary to be rich or good looking or good at sports you just have to give a dog your heart and it will give you it's heart right back every single day. As the book shows all dogs can be loveable even if they seem like the worse dog in world. The author does a great job of conveying how Marley taught the family to value life and to live it to the fullest. He died at the end and left his family heartbroken and missing him like they never could have imagined.
Surprisingly entertainingby helkiah
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11/12/2009: This is one of those books (movies/bands/restaurants) that you rebel against investigating simply because everybody says it's sooooo wonderfulllll. It had surprising depth however, complete with tear-jerker moments.
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