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Summary: Best Book of the Year!
Review: This book is really great. My father died when I was 7 and this book, even after 14 years, has helped me to feel a great comfort as if he really is watching and seeing me. It's just a great book and tears are easy to come at the end.
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Summary: I couldn't put it down!
Review: This is by far one of the best books I've read. Once I started reading Lovely Bones, I couldn't put it down. I absolutely loved everything about it (well, except for the title).
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Summary: what's the fuss?
Review: This book is not what I expected from all the hype. I kept reading all these glowing reviews and I just don't get it! This book was an okay read, I just do not see it as a stand-out. I did not find it suspensful or especially moving.
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Summary: A Timely,Thrilling Tragicomedy
Review: The unusual narrative form and subject matter of this book are what initially drew me to it and I loved every page. Sebold tells the story through the murdered protagonist's eyes, (Susie Salmon, who we can relate to because she could be any one of us). The writing has definite characteristics of experimental contemporary fiction, southern gothic, and even a thriller with an intense structure focusing on the lives of her family and friends and how differently they deal with her death. Full of wonderful surprises and twists that will make you laugh and cry, it can also be considered didactic in that it helps "unstatisticize" so many of the missing and murdered girls we hear about all too often today and in the past.
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Summary: Don't be duped by the hype
Review: I sure was duped. After hearing a glowing review on National Public Radio, I bought this book for my wife. My wife and I agree that this book comes no where close to the reviews. If anything, the book is an example of how the marketing machine can make pretty much anything into a "masterpiece" for a time. The book reads like Judy Blume. So if you like Judy Blume, go for it.
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Summary: Very unique
Review: This book is unique. It pulls you in. You can relate to the characters. You are filled with suspense to see what will happen. This is a great book. I'd reccomend it.
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Summary: A truely lovely book
Review: It goes without saying that there are people who will not like or even want to read this book. the subject matter is difficult and one knows from the second sentence that there can be no completely happy ending. However, this is absolutely one of the most beautifully crafted books I have ever read. Sebold's prose is simple, powerful and enthralling. It must also be said that this is not a perfect book and there are some aspects of the ending that did not sit well with me. This is definately one of those books that is about the journey not the destination. Susie, Lindsay, Buck and the rest feel like family to me and I will revist them time and again.
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Summary: A Dynamic Read
Review: Sebold took a risk in how she chose to structure her novel. Conventional wisdom tells us to stay within the lines as we apply our craft. I'm so glad Ms. Sebold decided to set her own boundaries. This book is not always an easy read, but I highly recommend it. The end makes the often harrowing passages well worth it. Beautifully done!
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Summary: I really don't know what to say...this book is very moving
Review: I seldom read a book. I have a large farm, and am a workaholic and watch movies, because they are done with quickly and then I can get back 'to work'.By chance, I had read several reviews of "The Lovely Bones", and was very drawn to the story. Several years ago, I worked with a local "People Against Rape" organization as a volunteer. I also have two lovely grown children. I always thought that a parent's worst nightmare would be a situation like this; your child abducted or missing, and you don't know what is happening to that child. Usually, I go for the thriller-diller crime stories. Murder/mayhem/mystery. When I ordered this book, I wondered if it would be a bit maudlin. I'm agnostic and don't believe in Heaven or Hell. This book is written by a young girl looking down from Heaven on the world which she has left, and the events taking place in that world, and the events that lead her to her death, and her "Heaven". Alice Sebold can WRITE! I started this book in the morning, and barely got out to feed the farm animals that day. The book is a "page turner". And, tough farm lady that I am, it caused me to shed a few tears. I hope that Ms. Sebold writes another novel. I'll be first in line.
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Summary: Simply beautiful
Review: Treat yourself to a heartwarming and tender novel. I loved it.
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