A painful read; didn't finish which I rarely do. Some bright spots at the beginning, but it was so choppy and uneventful I ended up super bored. Turned me off from this writer.

Just recently re-read this one as it was sitting on my bookshelf at a moment when I needed something lighter. Did the trick. I had forgotten how enjoyable this one was. Remarkably similar to Peter Mayle's fiction.

I can't even remember actually reading it. . . That's what an impression it made on me.

I gave up! I trudged through Le Divorce and (since I aquired both at a local thrift store) attempted to follow it with this book. Each night I'd open the book and make it through a few pages. After a month or so, and less than half the book, the stack of other books collecting dust on my night stand convinced me that perhaps, although well written, it was time to put this one down in favor of something new.

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This is another book given to us by a friend. Bumma read it, but I haven't had the courage. You see, my second language is Spanish, and I never took any French. When I saw the number of times Bumma scurried to her French dictionary while reading this, I got scared off. Then, another book by the same author got made into a chick flick and I shoved this book even further down my TBR pile. It's probably a very nice book and I shouldn't have such preconceived notions about it, but can't help it.

Nope. Didn't work for me.

I have found all of her books to be really fun light reads- not completely without substance.

This book was interesting in the beginning, and it kept on building up, and then it just crashed towards the end. It left a lot of questions unanswered, and not in a deep satisfying way. It just seemed to stop abruptly. I like when books leave certain things unresolved, but this one really left everything unresolved in an uncomfortable way.

Ho hum. I finally picked up one of Diane Johnson's books. This one, with a subplot of an apocalyptic gun-carrying home-schooling cult in Oregon on the eve of Y2K, its discussion of the ethics of hunting and infidelity, and the interminable question of whether Tim and Ann-Sophie really will get married left me cold--though I did finish the book.

This one has been on my bookshelf forever so in an effort to clean up a bit i figured I might as well read it. I would say that it was not anything special. It followed a few months in the lives of couple soon to be married in Paris and some of the people they encounter along the way.

I found it to be pretty boring with no real point. I wouldn't recommend spending your time on it.

Le Mariage is the follow-up to the runaway bestseller Le Divorce, which was made into a pretty good movie. It's a fun read, and I would have given it 5 stars, but it reminded me a bit too much of the second and third Bridget Jones books. This being said, Diane Johnson's a wonderful writer and a pleasure to read, whether you're a Francophile or a Francophobe.

A bit anticlimactic