Comments on: Jodi Picoult

By: Teri Dinofia

Teri Dinofia — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:44:58 +0000

I saw the movie friday nite and I too was very disappointed but also knew Jodi probably didn’t have much to say in the way Hollywood would turn it. The ending in the book was the hook of the story, Hollywood You messed that up by taking it away. You made the endng flat, nothing special, nothing memorable. It’s the thing that broke your heart to pieces from already being broken from Kates illness.
How Can you explain a sister to sister relationship, unless you have one and are one you can’t relate. You can’t imagine losing your sister, but when you do, this book brings even more of a meaning. Anna’s death in the book broke my heart for both her demise, ( because I could Relate to her being the younger sister, but also that her strongest desire was to save her sister and in death she did that.
Shame on Hollywood foe ruining a perfctly good book.

By: Gilda Suarez

Gilda Suarez — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:03:50 +0000

I,too saw the movie last night and was very disappointed. However, this morning I read Jodie disclosure on the movie. She had no control over what Hollywood did to the movie. For a decade now, I read rather than go to the movies. Jodie, you keep writing stories like you have in the past. You will survive. Hollywood, I wish you and your stars would just go away. You insult our intelligence with your arrogance,beginning with the directors, producers and actors. What a pathetic profession.

By: Debbie Sevier

Debbie Sevier — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:49:43 +0000

I loved your book, My Sister’s Keeper finding it very well written and thought provoking. What I don’t understand is the change to the ending. Your original ending added another level that the movie audience certainly wouldn’t have been expecting. That’s what a great book does and I’m just glad that I read the book first. Movie was okay, but the book–outstanding.

By: carol lunke

carol lunke — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:21:52 +0000

Why did you let Hollywood change your story? I loved you book and could hardly wait to see the movie. The lawyer’s story was not there and the ending was totally changed. I was very disappointed. Gone with the Wind never changed a word and that’s the way it should be.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:16:55 +0000

“Welcome” to Gloria (comment written at 10:18pm on 6/9.

Jodi has been my “favorite author” for a few years now.

The fact that she shows the many sides of an emotionally complicated story is why I love her. She can still surprise me even after reading half of her books.

Check out “Nineteen Minutes” and you won’t forget it.

By: Gloria

Gloria — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:18:00 +0000

I just read My Sister’s keeper. I loved it. I have to admit it was the first book of hers that I have read. The book has a nice flow to it and I love how it is not written from a single checters perspective but rather you can see it from all angles. I think I have found my new favoriet author!

By: marilynn parker

marilynn parker — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:09:51 +0000

Richard Holloway has as a frontispiece of his book Doubts and Loves: What is left of Christianity the following:
From the place where we are right
flowers will never grow
in the Spring.

The place where we are right
is hard and trampled
like a yard.

But doubts and loves
dig up the world
like a mole, a plough.
And a whisper will be heard in the place
where the ruined
house once stood.

I think Jodi Pecault writes about “doubts and loves,”that “plough up the world,” and make us think – and love.

By: marny hayward

marny hayward — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:42:21 +0000

i sort of live “down the road” from her…in Springfield, NH. She sure takes the “I’m right” out of the equation and makes you realize that there’s a “right and wrong” in most of what we do….black and white don’t always exist…most things are a shade of gray…

By: Jeb Ladouceur

Jeb Ladouceur — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:00:46 +0000

I have followed Jodi Picoult and her remarkable accomplishments for several years, and I truly feel that she is the most literate author of popular fiction writing today. Furthermore, as a fellow writer who knows her personally, I can say that Jodi is one of those rare people who is totally unaffected by her worldwide celebrity. She rewards her readers … and her friends … in many ways. That they should reciprocate is hardly surprising. At one point last year Ms. Picoult had four novels listed on The New York Times charts simultaneously … an incredible achievement, and an unparalleled one as far as I know.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:13:13 +0000

Picoult is good at asking questions, which we should all do. She is also, however, insufferably arrogant, saying things like, “when you think you’re right, you are most likely wrong.” Add this to her theological relativism and she has set herself up to be everyone’s friend (don’t dare say someone might be wrong about something) and a deliciously controversial thinker (suggest that everyone is wrong.) How can everyone be right AND wrong, Ms. Picoult? They can’t, of course, but you sure do sell a lot of books.