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I laughed & I cried while reading this book. There were a few parts that did irritate me, like when Marley was ill and Grogan was talking about the cost of treatment, etc. All in all, though, I think this book was fantastic and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good read. ( )
Darrell recommended this book to me. It's not extremely well written or all that interesting but if you're not completely heartless it'll probably make you feel something.
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In memory of my father, Richard Frank Grogan, whose gentle spirit infuses every page of this book
Incipit
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In the summer of 1967, when I was ten years old, my father caved in to my persistent pleas and took me to get my own dog.
Citazioni
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...the expression on his face gave him away. It almost screamed out, Good God, man! For the sake of future generations, we must contain this genetic mistake at all costs!
I had quickly reverted to my premarriage (read: slovenly) lifestyle. By the power vested in me as the only adult in the house, I suspended the Married Couple Domesticity Act and proclaimed the once banished Bachelor Rules to be the law of the land. While Jenny was in the hospital, shirts would be worn twice, even three times, barring obvious mustard stains, between washes; milk could be drunk directly from the carton, and toilet seats would remain in the upright position unless being sat on.
As with so many of his misdeeds, this one was not malicious or pre-meditated. It wasn’t as though he had disobeyed a command or set out to intentionally humiliate me. He simply had to go and he went. True, at the wrong place and the wrong time and in front of all the wrong people. I knew he was a victim of his own diminished mental capacity. … The dog was defective. How could I hold that against him?
Marley was a funny, bigger-than-life pain in the ass who never quite got the hang of the whole chain-of-command thing. Honestly, he might well have been the world’s worst-behaved dog. Yet he intuitively grasped from the start what it meant to be man’s best friend.
Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things – a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in the shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.
He became part of our melded fabric, a tightly woven and inseparable strand in the weave that was us. Just as we had helped shape him into the family pet he would become, he helped to shape us, as well – as a couple,l as parents, as animal lovers, as adults. Despite everything, all the disappointments and unmet expectations, Marley had given us a gift, at once priceless and free. He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most of the other pieces fall into place.
Ultime parole
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Quando John e Jenny, una giovane coppia della Florida, decidono di adottare un cane per fare pratica come genitori non si immaginano quale uragano sta per abbattersi sulla loro casa. Marley, un Labrador giallo, da adorabile cucciolo si trasforma immediatamente in un gigante maldestro che si lancia attraverso le porte a zanzariera, distrugge le pareti, sbava sugli ospiti, ingurgita qualsiasi cosa attiri la sua curiosità, dai gioielli ai divani, e fugge dai bar tirandosi dietro il tavolino. Insomma, è la vergogna della scuola di addestramento e la disperazione del suo veterinario, che non sa più quale tranquillante prescrivergli. Ma Marley ha anche un cuore puro e innocente. Come rifiuta ogni limite imposto alla sua esuberanza, così la sua lealtà e il suo attaccamento sono infiniti, e la sua allegria devastante ma contagiosa sa riconquistarsi ogni volta l'affetto dei padroni. Questo libro è la sua storia, le gesta di una "persona non umana" che ha condiviso le gioie e i dolori della famiglia mentre questa cresceva, se n'è sentito parte anche nei periodi in cui nessuno voleva più saperne di lui e soprattutto è stato, per tutta la sua esistenza, un distruttivo, insostituibile, commovente esempio d'amore e fedeltà.