P.S I Love You......On The Contrary (PS, I Love You - Cecilia Ahern)

Name: Aideen

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Product:	PS, I Love You - Cecilia Ahern
Date:	31.12.07 (164 review reads)
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Advantages: None

Disadvantages: I can't count that high ( and I only clicked a star because I had to)

Finally, somebody with taste in literature that I can admire. Delicate Orchid, wherever you are tonight, P.S I Love You. Yes, yes and yes. Everything you've said I agree with.
First, let me say this: I'm a thirty one year old woman from the south of Ireland and I have never been so embarrassed by the description of this book as being 'the best to leave Ireland'. If that's the case being presented to the rest of the world, they must think Irish writers are crap.
Secondly, I have a great friend who, finally, has sold her very first novel. I don't think she's in danger of winning the Nobel prize for literature but it sure is a good, clever and thrilling book that took two years to write, eight years to publish. Yes, eight years. But why so long, I hear you ask. Well, the answer to that is simple:
Her Daddy is just an ordinary plumber, not the Taoiseach of his country.

Let's be fair to other writers out there and admit that the only reason Cecilia 'I'm so genuinely nice' Ahern became an overnight success was in fact down to her political buddy. No, not sour grapes, why have I got to be sour about? But it does get on my goat when girls like her can have things handed so easily to them while others slog and work through years of hardship to see their dreams finally realised.
Anyway, my review is as follows.

The story or the concept was okay and might have worked if the author could actually write good english. The characters were more cardboard than my box of cornflakes. The plot, or lack of was just sad. Sad in the embarrassing sense. The ending, complete rubbish.

But well done, Ceci, all that money and all that fame and all because the lady loves chocolate. Sorry, all because the lady has connections.

Summary: Please, don't hurt your brain with this tripe