One Day / David Nicholls 437 p.

I was out with some friends recently, and they got into an argument about this book. One loved it, the other thought it was annoying. I'm in the squishy middle here. This is a romance of sorts; it spans 20 years, but only looks at one day (the same one) out of each of those years. The main characters go to University together in Edinburgh, then head their mostly separate ways in London after graduation. The writing is good, definitely engrossing, lots of humor and some real poignancy. It very strongly echoes McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City (or maybe it's just that all scenes of druggie debauchery read the same). My biggest beef is with the use of a particular plot device toward the end which I detest but won't name.