Resumo de Marley & Me

This is a book for every lover of the canine species. It?s a book that made me tearful, and had me clutching my sides from laughing too much. I fell ever so totally head over heels in love with Marley, the Labrador Retriever, central to the book. Marley makes my own irrepressible and impossible Irish Setter, Zorro, seem like a gentle lamb, which he absolutely isn?t, or should I say, wasn?t till ?Marley & Me? happened to me. Never before have I felt so amused at a dog?s irrational and utterly disastrous behaviour!

John writes with an ebullient humour reminiscent of Gerald Durrell alone. It was this famous English author of animal books such as My Family & Other Animals and, A Zoo in My Luggage that had you laughing your guts out not just at animal antics, but at yourself too. This ability to laugh at oneself is what Grogan?s got spot on. His sentimentality is unapologetic and there are moments in the book when you really wish you lived close enough to the Grogans to witness this lovable monster of a dog.

How does one live with a humungous beast worth a 100 pounds of flab and drool that can?t seem to stop crashing into doors and windows? How can you actually keep spending dollar upon dollar on repairs that you know will repeat unabashedly when there?s a thunderstorm stirring somewhere? How do you accept a creature stomping his way around your home, eating off your kids? plates and constantly stealing from the trash can? The uninhibited demonstration of affection on Marley?s side could often transform the Grogans? home a sheer disaster zone for most guests. As you progress your way through this unputdownable book, wanting to turn page after irresistible page, you fall in love, and you simply begin adoring this Man?s Best Friend. What courses through this novel, is the simplicity and the utter loyalty that is Marley. The quality of a book is surely not judged by its cover, but it is by the charming and captivating style of the author. Grogan captures the vast gamut of human emotions on print, in a style that enraptures you. He is, quite effortlessly, able to draw out the child within as you experience life with Marley, with the Grogans.

Marley crawls into your heart quietly, however ironic that may sound. He stands witness and guard on John and Jenny?s infants as they come into being, all three of them. Believe it or not, Marley is as gentle as a lamb when it comes to kids and watching out for the unknown prowler, although for the most part of the book, he drools and crashes his way through the novel.

If you are not a dog-lover, get ready to become one. The Grogans, we learn toward the end, are not alone in their love and eventually in their grief. There are many out there who?ve had it worse with Lab-Retrievers. This in itself delivers the Grogans from their interminable grief. Marley had turned their lives around on his head for thirteen long years, while he was alive and wasn?t about to easily give up his rightful place in their home in a hurry after he was buried in their frontyard.

One would squeal with delight at Marley and John?s antics in ?Dog Beach?, and squirm with them when he commits the ultimate heresy of pooping in the ocean water, ?violating the sacred rule of Dog Beach?; you will surely wait with bated breath the night a young girl is stabbed in their neighbourhood, to find Marley rising to the occasion; you would stand by to see how Marley reacts to the arrival of Jenny and John?s firstborn Patrick. When John and Jenny decide to become parents after a miscarriage, they go on a holiday to Ireland, and well, what follows is absolute mayhem, uniformed in delightful humour, both in Ireland and athome, with their stand-in dogsitter, Kathy. I quote, ?Kathy stood in the doorway, she had the faraway gaze of a shell-shocked soldier after a particularly unrelenting battle.? ?Marley had decided that he was in charge while the parents were away, and he was not going to let some mild-manneredroommate pull rank and put the kilbosh on his fun.?

The book is replete with moments of absolute, unadulterated joy, as it is with moments when you shall not be able to stop those tears from slinking out of the corner of your eyes, and may even fall. You will undoubtedly fall prey to the charms of them all, the entire lot of Grogans, including Patrick, Connor and Colleen, not to forget big brother MARLEY.
Don?t think I can ever look at Zorro, our Irish Setter, ever again without remembering the spirit that was Marley. Every dog comes with a mission, to teach man to live fairly and squarely, each moment for its full worth. My time for learning arrived when I picked up this book as a birthday present for my husband. Long live the spirit of the dog, in each one of us!

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