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| Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog | 
 enlarge | Author: John Grogan
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1370 reviews
Sales Rank: 2537
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1 Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0060817097
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.7527092
EAN: 9780060817091
ASIN: 0060817097
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
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Condition: NO SPINE CREASES; NAME INSIDE COVER NO OTHER MARKS IN BOOK; STRAIGHT PAGES
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| Customer Reviews:
 Read this book in a day! January 15, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is a quick read. I found myself laughing out loud one minute and with tears in my eyes seconds later. It makes you realize that a pet can teach you lessons of love and life plus bring you comfort and friendship. Kudos to John Grogan for capturing the joy that a beloved pet brings to a family!
A real tear jerker! January 15, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Great book! Cried through the whole thing, except when I was laughing at this naughty dog!
Dogs in our Lives January 14, 2006
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I love this book! Marley is imperfect. Can anyone else admit their dog is imperfect? Certainly not my dog! ;) This book was written by a real pet dog owner, not a dog-obsessed show dog breeder, agility trainer, or hardcore rescuer. Every hilarious moment reminded me of my own dog or my friend's dog. I was laughing out loud throughout much of the book, empathizing with the author's embarrassment at his dog's behavior in training class, and anger at other times!
I couldn't put it down! January 14, 2006
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
What a wonderful book! Having raised other breeds of dogs I can and did identify with all the emotions experienced by Mr. Grogan and his family - albeit not to their extent. I laughed out loud, stayed up into the wee hours of the morning, putting it down only when sleep insisted. Throughout my daily activities thoughts of what I was reading frequently crept to the forefront. While browsing through the book section of store I found myself invading the space of total strangers to recommend it as a "must read". Now that I have finished it I will send it to my mother who I know will keep it in her permanent library.
 A disappointment January 13, 2006
68 out of 116 found this review helpful
I received this book as a Christmas gift from my wife (as I expect many dog lovers did this year); we have a yellow Lab who resembles Marley. I was looking forward to reading it, and was quite disappointed to find that it was unbearably cloying and sentimental. The book is only partly about Marley the dog; much of it focuses on Grogan and his wife, who come off as being hopelessly self-absorbed and materialistic.
The dog stuff is amusing, but just barely. Far from being "the world's worst dog," Marley is just a typical Lab who is spoiled by his owners' self-indulgence and poor decisions. At times Grogan acts as if he's the only person who has ever owned a dog; most of one chapter deals with a game of fetch with Marley, including Grogan's astounding discovery that he can fool the dog into thinking he's thrown the stick when he really hasn't! Yeah, that's hilarious.
How this book became a bestseller is a mystery to me. I much prefer Dave Barry's essays about his dogs Ernest and Zippy; now that's good dog writing!
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