# Marley & Me

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-me/346121>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 25, 2006, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-me/346121 "2006-02-25T23:26:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-me/346121/1 "2006-02-25T23:26:47Z")

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I just finished reading ‘Marley & Me, life and love with the worlds worst dog’, [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060817089/sr=8-1/qid=1140909868/ref=pd\_bbs\_1/103-5078851-6652638?\_encoding=UTF8](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060817089/sr=8-1/qid=1140909868/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-5078851-6652638?%5Fencoding=UTF8)

No one will ever call it great literature, but it was a sweet, sweet story, and I was weeping openly at the end.

Anyone else read it?

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**Author:** ![Aguecheek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Aguecheek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aguecheek)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-me/346121/2 "2006-02-26T00:37:07Z")

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Yup. And I was bawling.

Many of Marley’s health problems were exactly the same as Mike’s, my old dog. He loved to get into the garbage, went deaf, deathly farts. I saw a hell of a lot of Mike in there, and I spent the last 1/3 of the book with tears streaming down my face.

My wife didn’t know whether to laugh at me or give me a ‘told you so’ for buying it in the first place.

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**Author:** ![Stinkum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Stinkum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stinkum)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-me/346121/3 "2006-02-26T05:34:02Z")

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> [@Lucretia](#):
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> I just finished reading ‘Marley & Me, life and love with the worlds worst dog’
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> No one will ever call it great literature, but it was a sweet, sweet story, and I was weeping openly at the end.
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> Anyone else read it?

I finished it about two weeks ago and get verklempt thinking about it. I’ve had two lab mixes (one still with me), and it struck home. The writing was well done, I thought, and a good story about a man and his dog.

I didn’t read the book aloud to Joplin. I didn’t want to give him ideas (“hmmm, chewing through the walls – I haven’t thought of that!”) though he’s 9 and SHOULD be past all that.