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Great book!!
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I had this on my shelf for a long time -- I was almost afraid to read it, thinking it would be too sad. It is, instead, almost anything but -- so well written, so full of hope and humanity and love, and surprisingly unsentimental. Just a beautifully crafted novel. I can't recommend it enough.
Absolutely loved this book!
It is real and strange...definitely enjoyable.
This book is so sad, but so well written it really draws you in.
I enjoyed this book. The author is very creative and it has a nice flow.
Definitely an interesting concept and kept me interested. Lots of psychological dynamism in this book, a great read. Not for someone who is easily bothered by sensitive subjects.
Fascinating from page one! I didn't care for the "out-of-body" sex scene in the school auditorium, but the story was compelling.
After years of being afraid to read this due to the disturbing nature of the story I finally read it and absolutely LOVED it!!! It was a truly amazing book that teaches we all should love life and enjoy what we have before it's gone because once you're gone there's no coming back! Fabulous Read!!!
This book pulled me in from the start. I saw the previews for the movie and like everything else i checked out the book first. I started reading this book and could not put it down.
This story is told bout Susie Salmon and is told from her point of view about her murder, family and friends and even her murder dealing with and living after her murder.
This book for me was a heavy read , it pulled me in , i could see everything feel everything.. this book made me feel grief with this family , the stress of her parents, siblings and how this family changed and was brought back in the end.
This book has love , loss, child romance, longing for , and a family dynamic that is truly wonderful.
This story is told bout Susie Salmon and is told from her point of view about her murder, family and friends and even her murder dealing with and living after her murder.
This book for me was a heavy read , it pulled me in , i could see everything feel everything.. this book made me feel grief with this family , the stress of her parents, siblings and how this family changed and was brought back in the end.
This book has love , loss, child romance, longing for , and a family dynamic that is truly wonderful.
From Amazon:
On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey.
Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, The Lovely Bones, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams," where "there were no teachers.... We never had to go inside except for art class.... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue."
The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years like an episode of My So-Called Afterlife. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family, and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on Earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow." Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish, and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings.
On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey.
Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, The Lovely Bones, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams," where "there were no teachers.... We never had to go inside except for art class.... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue."
The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years like an episode of My So-Called Afterlife. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family, and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on Earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow." Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish, and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings.
I read this book for our neighborhood book club and truly enjoyed the book. It was different and really made you think what those who have gone before can see and what influence theyu can have on our lives.
ISBN 159413023X is a large-print paperback.
I was worried I wouldn't like this, since my Grama got it for Christmas & told me the whole story. But it was a nice, quiet read. The ending was kind of pat & cheesy, but all in all I enjoyed this book. Reading guide available at twbookmark.com.
I was worried I wouldn't like this, since my Grama got it for Christmas & told me the whole story. But it was a nice, quiet read. The ending was kind of pat & cheesy, but all in all I enjoyed this book. Reading guide available at twbookmark.com.
