My Sisters Keeper- The Movie
 

I just saw the trailer and the movie looks good. I'm disappointed though because Jodi Picoult states on her official website that the ending is different than the book. Which kind of sucks, because yes, while the book ending was sad, it was the perfect ending. I hate when screenwriters completely change a book.

I love that book. There was no reason to change the ending.

i'm currently reading the book for a school assignment. it's really a great story. i love that each chapter is a different point of view from different characters throughout the book.

All her books are like that. Be careful, she's addictive.

I loved 19 Minutes. I really, really want to read her new book Handle With Care, I'm on a waiting list for it at the library.

I kind of have a feeling that (without spoiling the book futurexrushgirl) that what happens to Anna in the book doesn't happen to her in the movie. (If that makes sense).

^^^That's what I'm thinking. As much as I hated it, I can't imagine the movie ending any differently because it was all such a perfect fit. I finished that book in about 2 days, it was amazing!

She is TOTALLY addictive. I can't wait to read some more of her books, but I haven't had time to read for pleasure in months. :( I think the last one I read was Mercy.

I'm in the middle of Handle with Care right now, and it does not disappoint. I should have started it after classes end though. I think I'll try and get through Songs of the Humpback Whale this summer. I've tried that book a couple of times, but never could get into it. Those are the only books she's written I haven't read. Mercy was just awesome. I think it is definitely is my top faves of books.

I must be the only one who hated this ending. It was just like "oh well, fate will do as it wants so why bother fighting it."

oh, it's okay! haha. i'm only a hundred pages in, but my teacher told me everything that happens throughout the book. :( i was kinda dissapointed that she spoiled it. haha.

but it's definitely a good read. i told my mom that she has to read it after me!

That sucks that your teacher spoiled it for you!!!!

It's a great book to debate though. The morality of conceiving a genetically perfect child to be a donor for a sick child.

33girl- I just had a feeling reading the book, that one of the girls was going to die. I just didn't know which one until the moment came. Either way I think it sucks that they changed it for the movie.

Please come back when you are finished reading it. I have been dying to discuss the ending, but none of my friends have read it yet.

Will do!

I would double quote, but I haven't figured that out yet. It makes me :mad: when people spoil the ending of a book. I was reading a trilogy that took the two years for me to read, because I was hooked on the first book. I introduced a co-worker to the books and when I had 50 pages left of the third book, she comes in and spoils the ending. I was reading the damn book on my break, so she could see I wasn't finished! It took me another year to finish those 50 pages, because I was like-why bother?? I made a pledge to try and only tell someone about the first chapter of a book to try and hook them if at all possible-which with Jodi Picoult is easy.

On another note, if you ever get a chance to go to her book signing, she is really nice in person. She took down her publicity signs at the bookstore so more people could see her while she was doing her reading. Did you know she was a layed off teacher? She got her pink slip after one year and started writing. This wasn't even her intended career. She was also very humble about the responses she received from the audience. You could see she was overwhelmed by everyone not only sitting on chairs, but sitting on the floor and standing throughout the whole store. She brought such a crowd they host her somewhere else now.

I read the book last summer. The subject, an ill-child/sibling, touches my family.

Saw the preview. I can almost buy Cameron Diaz as the mother, but not Alec Baldwin as the lawyer. Bobby Canavale would have been a better choice.

I haven't watched the preview yet, but those do seem like odd choices for the actors. Hopefully I'll be surprised. I would have never put Ann Hathaway in the Devil Loves Prada and she did a great job.

This book is the only read I've read of hers. It troubled me so much that I haven't been able to pick up another one she's written, even given her accolades. I think half is it hit way too too close to home and the other half is I hated hated the ending. It's the only book I sobbed through pretty much the whole thing.

The movie, in about 2.5 seconds had me tearing up. I'm going to have to go see the movie at like 10am on a Sunday so no one will see me looking awful when it's over.

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.

Okay, I just looked up the movie ending on wiki (I can't STAND not knowing how a movie ends when I already know the beginning--I'm too nosy to not know what I'm walking into before I see it). Yes, I'm mad at the change, but not as mad as I would be if the whole ending was wrapped up in a pretty bow. They could've done worse, but it really takes from the irony of the whole thing to have it end this way. If I were Jodi, I wouldn't have let them change the plot at all.

I had to put the book down, because the beginning seemed a little slow-but I just don't think I was in the mood for it at the time. Once I picked it up again, I finished it in 2 days. (The first quarter took me over a month.) I liked it much better than her last 19 Minutes and 10th Circle. She is on a 1 book a year mode, and I think it affected the quality of her work for a little while. I really liked the ending-even though it is sad.

What were your impressions?

Not to deviate to much from My Sisters Keeper, but her newest book, Handle with Care is actually pretty good.

As for the movie, I too went to wiki and am disappointed with the change in the ending. They should have kept the book ending. Plus, it kind of sucks that they cut out the character of Julia and changed the fact that the son is a pyro.

I just looked it up too. I prefer the movie ending, for the reasons I stated earlier in the thread that I hated the book ending. But I do agree that completely changing a book like that is awful.

Julia was such a big part of the book. I had not heard that they cut her out of the movie, but that makes me sad. I was kind of looking forward to that side story.

As for "Handle With Care," her latest book, I can honestly say that with all of her books that I have read...I gasped out loud at the end. She loves to throw a curve ball in at the end of her books, but was not expecting that.

I like her books. She is very good at telling a story. Sometimes I have trouble with the beginnings of her books. They are slow, but I think that is because there is so much "back story" that she needs to tell it can get bogged down. However, once the story gets rolling, I don't want to put the book down.

I am determined to read her first book this summer! I've started it already a few times. Has anyone else read it?

I would have to say that the ending was definitely not predictable in Handle with Care. I think maybe that's why I liked it better than the last few.

Just as a side note, I have a picture with Jodi Picoult in my phone. It's blurry as heck, but it's there!

I too didn't expect the ending of Handle with Care, but I kind of wish she had given like an epilogue of what "happened" with the family. I mean she kind of did, but...I don't know it was a curve ball but I was like "that's it", "no more", "I don't get to read about peoples reactions".

As for My Sisters Keeper, I loved the ending of the book, now that was something I wasn't expecting. To change the movie the way they did, was what I did expect from the book. If that makes any sense at all.