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Rachel's Holiday

Author: Marian Keyes
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

159 reviews
Sales Rank: 333

Media: Paperback
Pages: 640
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 1.7

ISBN: 0140271791
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780140271799
ASIN: 0140271791

Publication Date: January 29, 1998
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Customer Reviews: Read 154 more reviews...

3 out of 5 stars

Repetitive and sloooooooooooooooooooow. July 17, 2008
This is the first Marian Keyes book I have read and picked it due to the great reviews. I didn't find the book as enjoyable as a lot of people.

The story was slow to develop and rather repetitive. I don't think it needed the 500 pages plus and could have been told in half that. There are a few dozen characters, many of whom were potentially interesting but were not developed so you never really got to understand anyone except the protagonist, Rachel.

I thought the story was completely predictable and at times I was completely frustrated by the lack of action/plot. I thought the writing was humorous in places but mostly in the Christmas cracker joke/grimace way than laugh out loud.

I'm not sure I would read another book by the same author.

5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant, fantastic, wonderful, funny, interesting and very realistic. !!! July 3, 2008
I cannot tell how much I enjoyed this book, I have forced many people to read it as a self - help book as it makes a lot of sense and says all the right things, the main character "Rachel" is the best of all Keyes books, perhapes that is because there is a lot of Marian's own experience written into the story, it made me laugh and it made me think about how completely unaware we can all be about what we are doing and the consequences of our own actions, I read this book in 2 days, it would have been quicker if I had been able to take the day off work to read it which I did think about doing as I loved this book soooooooooooo much right from the first couple of pages .

5 out of 5 stars

My fave book May 30, 2008
I agree this is inspirational. I laughed out loud through the chapters and cried too. I also was at a difficult point in life and this helped me through it, it's a book that highlights the humour in even the most unpleasant situations. I've read this about 7 times and if ever I feel a bit low, I pick it up......
Thank you Marion.

4 out of 5 stars

Reliable Marian! May 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Marian's classic easy-to-read comical style comes through in this book, and I enjoyed it a lot. I've read lots of Marian's books but I love the Walsh family collection the most. I will never tire of reading about Mam Walsh and Helen...(come on Marian, where's Helen's book?)

However, it did lose a star for me because I thought the book was a bit repetitive at times and Rachel's predictable and eventual realisation that she had a problem seemed to take forever. The characters in this book are too numerous - and sadly this meant that you didn't really get to know any of them well enough (or care about them)...Don, Barry, Neil, Mike etc etc. And whilst this doesn't detract from the enjoyment of the book - I think Marian missed a trick here. Still great fun, easy read and a page-turner. I would recommend to a friend - or you for that matter! :-)

5 out of 5 stars

Read by 'accident' May 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I had two Marian Keyes novel in my bookcase but thought they wern't my kind of read until I saw Marian Keyes on 'Loose Women' (TV prog.) and realised she was Irish. In my opinion the best writers of the English language are the Irish. Rachels Holiday is a touching accurate study of a girls descent into drug addiction. Rachel lives in New York has a super boyfriend and a tolerant girlfriend both of whom she abuses due to her addiction but when she overdoses she is taken back to Eire and sent to 'Coisters' a rehabilitatin centre. At times hilarious and other times touching but at all times very interesting and enlightening. Marian Keyes writes with ingegrity but still her books are real pageturners. I read 'Anybody out there' first but I would advise anyone to read Rachel's Holiday before 'Anybody out there' which was also excellent. I have since sent for three more of her books.