Has anyone read the book & seen the movie?

What did you think?

I loved the book and was pleasantly pleased with the movie- I thought the different perspectives of each character was handled well- but-why did they change the ending??

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Bevogal

Not yet, but have plans to watch it.

I heard they changed the ending...I know in the book she dies ( this is under spoiler, remember )..what happens in the movie ending ?

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Live, Love, Laugh

I heard they changed the ending too. I don't think I would it changed.

I HATED the ending of the book -- so cheap and easy (for an author, I mean, it was a complete tearjerker, but it avoided really answering the big question in the book.) I also dislike the many tangents. I probably won't see the movie. I can't imagine how they change the ending and have the same story.

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Reading is Fundamental.

I absolutely hated the ending of the book. She just gave up in my opinion -- possibly to meet a publisher's deadline? I read it for a book group I was in years ago and now my regular book group is reading it. I can't bring myself to reread it. It had great potential but totally failed. I wanted to see how the family was going to deal with the decsions that were made. You could totally understand both the parent's reasoning for what they did as well as the sister wanting control over her own body. THe ending was the biggest cop-out ever written.

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Cecilia

"We must love them both--those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in the finding of it."
Saint Thomas Aquinas

I totally agree about the ending of the book. I *love* Jody Picoult's writing but she so often falls apart on her endings. The only books I felt held up through the endings were _Nineteen Minutes_, _Keeping Faith_, _Second Glance_ ( I *highly* recommend this book!) and, for the most part, _Change Of Heart_. The ending of _The Pact_ was even more of a copout than the ending of _My Sister's Keeper_, something the author actually addressed in the Afterword section of _The Pact_. Now that I know the ending of My Sister's Keeper was changed for the movie I will make an effort to see it once it's out on dvd :-)

Now it's been a while since I read it, but I didn't find the ending disappointing at all. It was sort of a tragic lesson that it doesn't always matter what we want or don't, fate will always make the final descision. They wasted so much time ( like many of us do) argueing and being right and being heard that in the end that doesn't really matter anyway.

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"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." ~ Bernard Meltzer

My dd saw the movie and said it focuses more on the family dynamics, rather than the trial, as the book did. She said she wished it was more about the trial than the 'Hollywood' family stuff.

I didn't see the ending of the book coming.....it was a surprise for me and usually I am one that figures out the ending of books!! Looking back, maybe it was an 'easy way out'.

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"It's not about how much baggage you have, it's about whether or not you can carry your own baggage with grace and dignity."

Patrick went to see it tonight-he would not tell me the ending. While he went through cancer treatment for a year, and is extremely healthy, the previews just remind me of my 20 yr. old friend Sammy Jo who passed away in January. She and her older sister were so close. Patrick is going again on Friday, with a friend from the clinic (leukemia survivor)-cutest girl ever! I might have to tag along. If anyone has extra tissues in a stockpile, please send them my way.

you will definately need plenty of tissues

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Bevogal