![]() What’s really disappointing about the book is that the quality of the writing is surpisingly high. If you do read it, I hope that you notice that it reinforces the stereotype that women need a man to tell them what to do, and that you understand that our play boy hero is really a privileged white guy who just can’t come to terms with the fact that life is fragile and difficult but that if you fight the good fight and persevere it’s worth it in the end. I guess if you are looking for a tear-jerking romance that will get you thinking, you might enjoy this book. And I’m not going to allow someone who has never met a quadriplegic to continue the myth that those of us with the injury would be better off dead. And the person that chooses suicide has my compassion and support.īut I’m not going to celebrate that choice. Now, before you get on your high horse and remind me that some people do choose to die, and that’s their right, let me say that I understand that quadriplegia is downright hard to live with, and many people have it much harder than I do. Had she done so she would have discovered a community of people that have the courage to choose to live. Moyes (when you read that name, say it with venom) writes a book about quadriplegics and she hasn’t met one. Part of what inspired Me Before You was just questions I had in my head about quality of life.”īloody hell. I have been involved in feeding her, taking her out, and that kind of thing. The thing that really informed it was a member of my family who suffers from a progressive disease. In an interview about the book (available here), Moyes was asked whether she knew a quadriplegic before she wrote the book. ![]() Worse, it’s a book that presumes that suicide is the only rational response to the experience of living with quadriplegia. He was, after all, as rich as is a bottle of fine whiskey, and could have afforded any number of compensations to manage life with a disability– unlike most quadriplegics who are poor, but still choose to live. To borrow Moyes own summary, “the book is about a quadriplegic who wants to die.” Actually, the book is about a quadriplegic who wants to die, and at the end of the book chooses to do so – despite the fact that he found love and had a loving and supporting family, and so had an amazing opportunity to live a full and flourishing life. But I begrudge anyone spending money that might find its way into the author’s pocket. Spoiler alert: I need to discuss the ending to explain my hatred, so stop now if you (God forbid) want to read it yourself. It is the story of a romance between a wealthy play boy become quadriplegic and his carer, although it’s a romance with a twist. It’s hard for me to convey how much I hate Jojo Moyes’ supposedly romantic novel Me Before You, and dread the movie that is due out later this year.
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