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http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/10/david-nicholls-one-day-new-novel-us

Wow! Hold on, "comments for this discussion" are not closed. Did we read the same book?

Lets start with the first comment.

You, sir, have not read "Us". It hasn't been released yet, so how on Earth could you possibly know it's at all similar to "One Day"? I'm not aware if you've published anything other than your 3,600 troll-esk comments the Guardian website, but if you do, I hope you learn the difference between writing the same book and writing a second book within the same genre as the first.

Next up, samofthepryce.

I'll admit, I had to google Richard Curtis. It seems you were complimenting Mr Nicholls with this reference seeing as Mr Curtis has worked on many widely successful TV and film such as Bridget Jones' diary and Love Actually. I don't understand how you found "One Day" mediocre but enjoyed "The Understudy". The latter was far more predictable, have you considered you may not enjoy romance books? If thats the case, then I'd recommend you steer clear of Mr Nicholls. You know, seeing as he writes romantic books. And it's been 5 years since "One Day" came out, there's a movie and we're still talking about it, I think it's surviving just fine, thank you very much.

I've decided to respond to palfreyman with a simple, "that's your opinion and you're entitled to it." He wasn't making claims that were clearly not true or trolling. He's wrong, obviously, but I can't spend my every waking moment telling people when they're wrong or I'd never get anything else done.

And finally, westbritmiss. (Please note, the pictures suggest the above are all men).

"Utter tedium", eh? Firstly, the article was about the upcoming book, which, you haven't read. So you've read the article and decided to write a comment about how tedious  you found another book. Unnecessary, sir. Unnecessary. I hope you find and read my next post, which outlines why I enjoyed the book so much and come to understand the ardour that most non-robots feel for this book.

I encourage you all the thoroughly re-read "One Day" and if you still didn't think it was an insightful and humorous novel about people finding their place in the world and in each others lives then I suggest you take a good hard look at yourself.