Oh FFS...

[chaletian]

Dear God, Jodi Picoult is annoying. The flumph on her recent book, Change of Heart, goes along the lines of: What if your daughter needed a new heart? What if the only one available belonged to a murderer? WHAT DO YOU DO?

Um. Take the heart? Unless medical science has been deceiving us all these years and in fact the heart has a secret compartment where Bad People Germs live. WTF? (Closer examination on Amazon reveals that the plot has more to it than this, but I JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER so I don’t care.)

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[willowmina.livejournal.com]

Sounds like that Simpsons Hallowe'en Ep taken to the extremes.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Having skim-read quite a lot of this book in the supermarket there is a leetle bit more to it than that, but not much...

[katherinea.livejournal.com]

But I read an article in the Sunday Time Magazine about a woman who had a transplant and then developed a taste for beer, pizza and motorbikes. She then discovered the donor had been a motorcycle courier who liked beer and pizza...
But yes, does seem rather a non-question.
Would a small girl be able to have an adult heart? And who says he would be a tissue match? can I be bothered to read it to find out?

[morganmuffle]

Sounds like Eerie Indiana to me... and actually this rather weird book I read recently that had a girl who started to love Elvis after a heart operation and then discovered that the person who doanted her heart loved Elvis and Elvis had been playing as his heart was removed.

Probably not a book I'd read by choice though *g*

[balooky.livejournal.com]

I want a murderer's heart to replace my own cold, black one.

[sugarplum634.livejournal.com]

I *think* the murderer murdered the heart recepients sister. If that makes the story any better. I gleamed that from the blurb whilst in Waterstones the other day.