Boycott

I hesitate to post this because it adds to the promotion for the film – and the book it’s based on. So if hearing the title of this film that opens this weekend adds to your thoughts about seeing it, go to another blog. My point is to voice opposition to the book and to encourage people not to buy the book, read the book or continue to line the pockets of the author by seeing the film it’s based on. (I may have vented about this before. You can tell I’m riled).

The film and the book is “My Sister’s Keeper.” Don’t see it. It’s not getting great reviews so you’d probably be better off going to see “Up” again. And certainly don’t read the book. I won’t give away the ending but I absolutely guarantee you’ll hate yourself for reading the book, and you’ll definitely think less of the author.

I’m frankly outraged that an author would betray her readers the way Jodi Piccoult does in her choice to end this book. The story is about a younger sister who hires a lawyer to advocate for her against her parents, who keep using her as a human guinea pig and pin cushion to help her older sister with a chronic, life threatening condition. The younger sister has the right blood type and the parents are so desperate to keep the older girl alive, they sacrifice the rights and well-being of the younger one. Pretty interesting, ethical questions, actually.

If only the writer hadn’t chosen such a crappy way to end the book.

I’ll save you a trip to the library. Just don’t read it. Read the terrific biography of Frances Perkins, who was the secretary of Labor for Franklin Roosevelt. Or The Elegance of the Hedgehog, if you want decent fiction.

You’ll thank me.

~ by modelmom on June 27, 2009.