One Day by David Nicholls
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Dear All
I am sure there have been many threads about this book, but having just read it I just wanted to shares my sheer joy about it.
3 days after reading it I am still spell bound!
Anyone feel the same?
I am sure there have been many threads about this book, but having just read it I just wanted to shares my sheer joy about it.
3 days after reading it I am still spell bound!
Anyone feel the same?
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I read it a while ago now, but the story and characters have stayed with me.
I'm not usually into re-reading books, but I might make an exception for One Day.
I've rarely found that films live up to the books they're based on. I think a lot of that has to do with the picture you build up of the characters in your head being mismatched with what you see on screen.
I imagined Emma to be a bit on the larger side and quite frumpy. Nothing like Anne Hathaway!
Film is due for release in September. I wasn't too sure about the part of Emma going to Anne Hathaway either, but from the look of some of the stills I've seen, they seem to have 'frumped' her up a little for the early days.
Film poster:
http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/images/2011/02/One-Day-Poster.jpg
Some stills:
http://thedirtybookclub.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/anne-hathaway-jim-sturgess-one-day.jpg
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/PPTYy2HaPlm/Anne+Hathaway+Films+One+Day/0dH9oJv95q1/Anne+Hathaway
http://media.onsugar.com/files/2010/09/35/3/258/2589278/f729c0cf9ca304e5_Pictures_of_Anne_Hathaway_and_Jim_Sturgess_Filming_One_Day_in_Paris.jpg
http://widbox.com/img/articles/2010/Oct/06/anne-hathaway-and-jim-sturgess-star-in-one-day/anne-hathaway-medium.jpg
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01799/oneday_1799035b.jpg
http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/images/2010/10/Anne-Hathaway-and-Jim-Sturgess-One-Day.jpg
Thanks for sharing those
Maybe Anne Hathaway will make a believable "Emma" after all!
I love the film pics, just how I imagined them.
I didn't dislike the book at all - thought it was brilliantly written and there were some very funny and equally heartbreaking moments -but I agree that the characters, for me, were not likeable at all and that did ruin my enjoyment of it somewhat.
I might get flack for this, but I think Ashley Jensen would have been my perfect Emma. She isn't a waif and she's beautiful. I love Anne Hathaway since Ella Enchanted and a lot since, but she's too skinny/perfect for me. I bet she's weeping herself to sleep on hearing that.
Loved this book so much and totally not what I would normally read. I really identified with Dexter - the way he treated his family, the way he squandered his talent, the endless drink and drugs to dull the pain of constantly settling for what he had instead of what he could have had. Eek, tearing up...
lol - He was a tragic character really wasn't he?
Like you, my brother-in-law doesn't do "love stories" but he thought it was a wonderful book because it's so much more than your typical commercial romantic comedy.
Oh, me too. Reading all the reviews I sometimes wonder if I read a different book. Emma is a simpering ninny and Dexter is loathsome. It's tripe.
Dexter yes. I can understand how he could appear loathsome - there were times during the book he was just that. But for me those times were fleeting and he redeemed himself.
But Emma? Simpering ninny? I actually see her as a hard young Julie Walters or Imelda Staunton type, dressed like Susie Quatro. Far from simpering. (Ninny for loving him so much maybe?)
That's why films from books don't work. We all see things so differently.:)
I agree that Emma is supposed to be beautiful, but never saw her as beautiful in the classic (Anne Hathaway) way, more that she sort of enthused her beauty from within and scrubbed up well...if you get what I mean!
Loved the book and found myself speechless with what happened to Emma, probably with the undramatic simple way it was written.
Good way of describing Emma. In my earlier post I meant to imply that she wasn't a conventional beauty but beautiful in her own way. She blossomed.
Also, I don't think we were meant to like the characters all of the time. They were supposed to frustrate us, anger us, irritate us. That's because they are flawed like most humans are. It made them all the more believable.
"Far from simpering" - in your opinion. I stand by my original comment. In my opinion Emma has all the personality and charisma of a damp mop and I think Dexter is a boorish narcissist. However, as I wrote above, this does seem to be out of step with the majority view.
As for the film - I won't be going to see it.
I'm always very wary of film adaptations, as there are so very few that I've liked (my very fave being 'Adaptation' itself). I'll definitely see the movie but probably with low expectations, just in case.