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Summary: A Child Describes What It Feels Like To Have Been Loved
Review: I think the vast media attention to crime and serial killers is a shame, so when I read the back cover of this popular book I thought, "Oh, no!"The book was not about evil so much as about loss, regret and caring for others. The main character was such a much loved child, and her sweet portrait is so fully drawn, that it is hard to read her story and not be left feeling hopeful. The narrative carries you along in the same way as a good mystery novel does. This book is entertaining and involving.
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Summary: A Novel For Your Must-Read List!
Review: The Lovely Bones is about an unspeakable horror. The loss of one precious unfulfilled life. It is about the loss of self in the reaction to that loss. The death and eventual re-birth of all the relationships that stabilize our lives. Daughter, father, mother, sister, brother, husband, wife, friend, lover. Alice Sebold weaves a tale that spans years of earthly life. Moving back and forth in time, from heaven to earth and back again, The Lovely Bones is an intricate web of the past, the present, and a future never realized. The reader becomes friends with the characters and shares in their pain. Shares their struggles with changes that tear through, subside and eventually ripple through their lives. This is just a beautiful, brilliantly conceived novel, which I recommend highly. Other recent novels I love: Life of Pi by Martel, The Losers' Club by Richard Perez
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Summary: Simply the Sweetest Read
Review: My amazement about this novel is how well it was written. Throughout I did not feel a bit of vengeance or meanness from this young girl that was brutally taken from this earth. Is this what heaven is like? Suzie, this wonderful character, watches the lives of the ones she loves and the one that was brutal to her. She watches as her family and friends cope with her death the best way they knew how. This book seemed so real and tangible even though it was fiction. I really like that about this novel. My favorite part (I must add this in my review) is when she had a chance to return. What would you do if you were dead and had a chance to go back? She did something so unexpected. I would have told who killed me. I would have pointed him out and seeked my vengeance, but not Suzie, this character that scales on fictional perfection. She sought love. She sought her heart, and I thought that was amazing. She let her killer be and didn't even worry about it. That's how strong love is in this book. Alice Sebold has created a major achievement in fiction novels. I have never read anything so compelling and fresh and painful. I recommend buying this book if you believe in the great side of human nature (dead or alive), and the love you carry beyond life into death. Wonderful. Wonderful. Enjoy. Joy
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Summary: The Lovely Bones: Raped or Murdered?!?
Review: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold was a greatest book that I've ever read and I've read a lot of books it was happy and sad, it's still make me felt asleep, but this one I can read again and again. This book is a fascinating novel from the beginning through the ending of chapter 23. Susie Salmon is a 14-year-old girl, crime victim (raped and murdered), and spirit; Lindsey Salmon is a sister of Susie; Bucky Salmon is a 4-year-old boy, brother of Susie; and Mr. Harvey is a murderer, serial killer, and neighbor of Susie. Whoever read this book I guess you like it too right? The Lovely Bones was a good book, when I started to read for a few chapters I felt really bad for Susie and my favorite part was when she got to come down from heaven it made me cry and I had a smile at the same time she got to be with her first kiss.
What I like about this book is that a young girl that she been through a lot of things that people never been through those things likes her and people that never knows. A young girl raped and murdered when she was only 14 year old. When we first meet Susie, she is already in heaven. She has to face her life in heaven and as she looks down from the strange new place, she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice a young girl, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. "My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."(p.5) These are what I like this book about!!!
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, 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 own version of heaven. 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. In it holds the key to why she could write and transmit to us a nightmare horror, for she was raped on her way home. I cried for Susie, because she was frozen in a child like a body, while watching her sister and her brother grow up, the end of her parent's marriage and eventually her mother's transformation. 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 that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings.
If you felt like to read then go ahead and read. If you don't want to read and don't like this book then don't give me a word!! Because I think it's a great novel to read.
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Summary: The Lovely Bones
Review: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is a very touching, suspenseful novel about a young girl who's murdered. This was an astounding book which I extremely enjoyed. Sebold was able to write about a terrible tragedy and in the end leave a smile on your face. The theme of this book shows how a family restores their lives after being devastated. Susie's character is very strong-willed and mature. She is very selfless, being more concerned about her family than herself and hoping they will be able to move on with their lives and function as a family once again.
The theme of this book also shows how people are very individual in how they grieve and adjust to terrible experiences. Susie watches her family, from up in heaven, try to coup and understand the devastating news. The images and feelings you get when reading this novel are so realistic. Although this story is fiction, what happens to Susie is a common event that you hear in the news all the time. It is easy to relate this story to everyday life. Susie narrates the novel by telling the reader events that happened before her death showing how her family was when she was still alive. This helps us to see the progress her family makes in accepting her death throughout the novel. In the novel Ruth Connors believes the dead truly talk to us, stating "That in the air between the living, spirits bob and weave and laugh with us. They are the oxygen we breathe." I like that quote because I also believe the living have connections with the dead and although its sad to lose a loved one, I like to think they are always with you in spirit. Although this book is about a very sad tragedy it shows the good points about it and shines light on a 'bad' situation.
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Summary: What a waste ...
Review: This is the most unsatisfying book I've read in years. The only reason I bothered to finish was because it was the most recent choice of my book club. I kept waiting for something redeeming to occur, which didn't happen until I slammed it shut for the final time. The story is pedestrian and the writing banal. There isn't anything original about this novel, and many of the characters (i.e., the grandmother) though meant to be quirky and eccentric, are simply cliche and annoying. This book is best reserved for adolescents, but only if the goal is to inhibit their imaginations. If you feel compelled to read something unsophisticated, this is your book. But do yourself a favor ... buy a used paperback edition.
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Summary: Beyond the Grave
Review: What happens when I die? What happens to the people around me? What will Heaven be like? Humans have asked themselves these questions for centuries. We have speculated and wondered about what exactly happens as we die, and beyond. So Suzie Salmon (like the fish) is murdered. The book is from her perspective as she explores heaven, and most of all Earth. We see her as she walks the earth watching her family and her murderer. We see her as she looks at her crush, as she tries to contact her family, as she tries so hard to have an impact in where she can no longer be. Sebold carefully penned a beautifully descriptive, yet none-verbose work on how death affects everyone. Her words are simple and light. And for the entire book, I had a very airy and weightless sensation as I watched and saw what Suzie saw. I wondered a lot while reading the book (there's only so much you can do when you can't sleep...) And I have a much broader view of heaven now. If the book teaches you anything, it's to believe in the sprits that one might not see. But that one can most defintely feel.
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Summary: tormentingly sad while uplifting
Review: Strange, uplifting and tormenting all at the same time but ultimately growth and acceptance... One of the best books i've read in years... I agree that it compares positively with "To Kill A Mockingbird" ... I smiled while crying... Is definitely worth reading and I could not put it down.
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Summary: Mediocre
Review: I found myself skipping paragraphs towards the end of the book just to get to the end. I heard so many great things about this book, but it didn't do it for me. Although, I did feel for Suzie, I didn't cry as some of my other friends had. I found myself more interested in the non-existent forensics of the crime, etc.
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Summary: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Review: Lovely Bones is one of the best books I have ever read. It may seem a little depressing or awful but in reality it's an inspiring book filled with hope and joy. It's one of those books that you wished you'd read before because it really changes the way you see life and the people around you. It also leaves you with a feeling that maybe what you're going through isn't so bad and there's a lot more good in the world than you see. I recommend Lovely Bones to anyone who just wants to read a good book, it's more than worth the time. Plus you'll finish faster than you think because Susie's story is so compelling you won't be able to put it down.
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