Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog | John Grogan

Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog | John Grogan | The BEST dog story!

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	Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog John Grogan Harper Paperbacks, 2008 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 1419 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An entertaining tale, but make sure you get the kids' edition for kids

My whole family thoroughly enjoyed Marley & Me. My husband received the original hardcover as a birthday gift, and he read it out loud to our eight-year old, using lots of on-the-fly Daddy editing. Grogan wrote the original Marley & Me for an adult audience, and it's really a memoir of his family life as much as a biography of his dog (a brilliant angle, really, for Grogan to be smart enough to realize that his personal memoir would not have created as much interest as "life and love with the world's worst dog").

I want to emphasize that if you want to share Marley's story with a child, please make sure to buy the kids' edition, either Marley: A Dog Like No Other or the Marley Movie Tie-in Edition: A Dog Like No Other. It's a very worthy adaptation, keeping Grogan's authorial voice and Marley's stories intact, and the kids' version does still contain the "circle of life" lessons of the original book, which I thought was important. I definitely recommend the youth adaptation for anyone younger than high school, as well as any reader who is primarily interested in Marley as the star of the Grogan family. It's still a solid book, 24 chapters, almost 200 pages--a quality read.

The young readers' edition focuses on Marley and significantly tones down the content about John and Jenny Grogan's fertility issues and postpartum depression, and also takes out the graphic stories about the crime in the family's neighborhood.

There is a great tale for the whole family embedded in the original Marley & Me. The Grogans were typically inept dog owners when faced with their high-maintenance Marley. If they weren't, half the antics never would have happened. With the Marley & Me movie coming out, there is sure to be renewed interest in Marley, and this entertaining, heartfelt family story.

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The BEST dog story!

I read this terrific book when it first came out. I couldn't put it down. The author has a wonderful writing style that makes it an enjoyable read, not just because of the content. I told many friends about this book and they all loved it also. I highly recommend this book along with Merle's Door and Amazing Gracie.

Wonderful Story

This book was a delight to read,however, you need to be ready for a
good cry at the end. Marley was not the world's worst dog but he did
try the owner's patience. It is fun to read of his adventures as long as
it is someone else's problem.

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Sweet read.

This book is a nice ode to a dog. A dog lover can definitely relate, and Marley's behavior is adorable at times. Not the most fascinating, can't put down book out there.

Fun slice of life -- with Marley mixed in

I don't know what I was expecting when I first started 'Marley & Me' -- I guess less about Grogan and his family and more about the dog. That was stupid, of course -- and I'm very, very glad I was mistaken! I adored 'Marley & Me' and, like many people, cried my eyes out by the end. The story of the Grogans is heart-warming, and the book operates really as a memoir. Marley is as much a member of the family as the Grogans' lovely children and acts as such. His antics are pretty hilarious, but what really touched me and made this book so memorable was how important Marley is in so many of their darkest, happiest and most cherished moments -- he's everywhere. Very well-written, informative and tender, 'Marley & Me' is definitely a must-read for all dog lovers.

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