Cecelia Ahern - Where Rainbows End
Finished it in approximately... 4 hours plus? So funny... I'd be laughing my ass off (That's just exaggerated, since I'm not the one with loud laughs, I think.) suddenly beside my mother or sister and they'd just look at me all weird.
The whole book is written in a transcript kind of way because of certain reasons la... Not going to be a spoiler, but not like any of you would read the book anyway.
Well, like I said, the whole book is written in a transcript kind of way. Letters, emails, greeting cards, instant messages from age 5 between 2 best friends right until their 50 years old. 45 years in 585 pages! Of course, there were the letters and stuff from the main character's family members and other friends as well.
Only right up till the end, it was made clear that Rosie, the main character was reading through her transcripts of conversations and letters of her whole life with family and friends.
I thought that this might be nice to put up, and also an attempt to make you give the book a go.
Taken from Amazon.com :
Hard to believe it's fiction, August 12, 2006
Reviewer: M. S. Roberts "I'm A Lonely Angel Stuck On The Slow Path" (South Queensferry United Kingdom) -
This is one of the most original books I have read in a long time. It's seems completely fictional, but it consists of nothing but notes passed in school, emails, instant messages, text messages, and the good old fashioned way, letters. It also spans over 40 years just in one book. Of course, only the important events occur, years sometimes passing in the turn of a couple of pages.
There's no particular no time period in this, as instant messaging is included quite early on in the book, and for it to span over 40 years, there's no specific year the book starts and ends. It can be quite confusing that way, but don't let your mind dwell on it.
The book is about Rosie & Alex, who start off as best friends at school, and over the years, they encounter all the important events together: first loves, first jobs, pregnancy, marriage (to the wrong people at that), divorce, loss of jobs, reappearance of old girlfriends/boyfriends - basically everything you dread to happen in your life. Throughout all this, they argue, talk to others about what they can't tell each other, marry others ... The list goes on. They want to be together, but there's always some kind of obstacle.
At first the book can be severely hard to get into, considering there's nothing but emails etc. But I've now read this book more than once (it must be 4 or 5 times now), and I still find it exciting!
I identified a lot with this book, cos I'm a terrible hoarder, not only of material things, but stuff like emails & texts too. I have saved any email that ever meant anything to me, and the same goes for texts. I've saved some IM chats with my friends (which are somewhere), but I'm terrified about ever losing all my emails. They tell a story. They're nice to look back over every so often.
I love "P.S I Love You" too, but "If You Could See Me Now" was confusing and disappointing, and I still haven't managed to read more than halfway through the book. I haven't even managed to GET halfway. I hope her next book follows on from "P.S. I Love You" and "Where Rainbows End", cos then it'll be great.
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Well, I tried.
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