Finished!..after a minor detour because I needed a lighter read.

I saw My Sisters Keeper opening weekend. I thought all the actors did an excellent job. They did change a few things, and I'm not really sure why, but it did make for a good movie still anyway.

I saw the movie over the weekend. This thread made me google the original ending. It would have been a lot less predictable.

I hated the way the movie ended. I was so disappointed and it changed the whole basic premise of the plot.

I just read Vanishing Acts and loved it.

To those who haven't read the book and don't want to be spoiled, I would suggest not continueing to read my post. Therefore, I will leave a bit of space.
AGDee, I'm responding to your comment (not in a bad way :D)

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So let me guess instead of making Anna die in a car accident at the end of the book, they go through the whole rig-a-morale of a trial to just have Anna donate the stupid kidney to Kate in the first place?
What is it with screenwriters always trying to turn books into "happy endings"? Seriously, why can't they just leave the book the way it is.
Maybe it's just me, but I've written stories (and posted a few on another website) and I'd be annoyed if a screenwriter changed the plot of my story. Don't get me wrong, I understand a couple of minor changes here and there to carry the plot on, but if I have written a story where the main character dies, I don't want to see them alive at the end of the script because that isn't what I wrote. Does that make sense?

AGDee, you know I agree with you.... particularly since we saw the movie together!

No reason to change the storyline that way. I left the movie theatre upset. I thought the movie up until that point was well done, and I was all prepared for the book ending. Instead - nothing but indignation.

Actually, that ending would not have made me as upset as the way it really ended. So, your guess is wrong! It's not a happy ending, but it's very different from the book.

Let me guess - Alec Baldwin yelled at Anna and called her a selfish little pig because she wouldn't donate a kidney.

LOL, nope, not that either.

I'm reading it, and the trial is just over. I can't wait to finish it, and then see the movie - even if Alec Baldwin is in it.

So, which of Jodi Picoult's books should I read next? I absolutely loved the ethics in My Sister's Keeper. It reminds me of that true case in California (without the lawsuit).

I really enjoyed Vanishing Acts although it's the only other Jodi Picoult I've read besides My Sister's Keeper.

My favorite was Mercy. I've read all of them except Song of a Humpback Whale. I recommend just going to the bookstore and reading the backs to see which one hits you. I have to be in the right mood for books.

A couple of the other books are lifetime movies, BTW.

*sob*

Don't any books have happy endings anymore?

I'd recommend either The Tenth Circle, Salem Falls, or Perfect Match although all of the books I've read by her so far have turned out to be pretty good.

Plain Truth was pretty good too.

Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to you! So, once again Jodi Picoult doesn't disappoint with the ending of the book. What did you think of the book?

As for "My Sister's Keeper," I want to see the movie but hate that the ending has been changed. I think I am going to wait for the DVD. I too am sick of Hollywood having to give us happy endings.