I loved it. I was in the middle of it when my grandma's dog died. My grandma got her a month before I was born, so I grew up with her and she was as much my dog as my grandma's. After I finished, I gave the book to my grandma to read. She read the first chapter and said "I don't want to read this, I thought it was about the guy's dog when he was a kid but that dog died. What do I want to read about a dead dog for?" I told her to keep reading it. What does she do? She picks it up and starts reading about 3/4 of the way through where Marley dies. Then she tells me "The dog dies, thats too sad, I don't want to read it." I'm still trying to convince her to just read it from start to finish 5 months later.