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Summary: Spectacular
Review: This book touched me in a way a book has never touched me before. I admit after I read the first couple chapters I felt sick to my stomache and had to rest before I began reading again. The authour paints these vivid images of the characters happenings, some of them you don't want to think about. Alice Sebold has depicted imagery of heaven in such a believing way. This story is undoubtfully wonderful.
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Summary: Totally overrated
Review: I read the reviews on this book expecting something really great. I was sorely disappointed. The idea is clever but it just doesn't work. I'm sure that someone will try to make a movie ot of the novel. Good luck! This is one that I really cant' recommend.
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Summary: Entrapped Love
Review: I really enjoyed reading Lovely Bones. Seabold beautifully and romantically transcended her character's need and desire to love by skillfully describing acts of rape, having visions of the deceased, longing to live again, not just on the main character's part, and many other explicitly decribed weavings of suspense and activity. Lovely Bones was truly a remarkable novel written with grace and sensitivity. I would recommend this book to individuals who long to be engrossed and compelled to finish a novel about the various sins committed in each of the character's attempt to achieve unconditional love.
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Summary: An awesome, unique book
Review: I dunno about the people who say this book is bad, but I thought this book just truly was amazing and inspiring. The tale is a sad one, but the presectives that Sebold gives on such a touchy subject are truly interesting. It also gives a true look on people's reactions to death and life. I would definetly recommend to read it, it is one that you won't be able to put down!
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Summary: Amazing book
Review: This book is the best book I have read in a long time. The realness of the story and the narration captures your emotions. Its gut wrenching and beautiful at the same time. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a touching story.
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Summary: AWESOME!
Review: This book was awesome. It dealt with issues of teenage lives and how a crisis can effect them. It also dealt with family and how you need your family to get through rough times. This book was one of the best books I read in awhile. I definately recomend to everyone.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: This book has all the emotional depth of an episode of Without a Trace. The characters felt contrived (except maybe Susie) and I couldn't relate to them at all. I was surprised to see all the glowing reviews because I have read much better books written recently. Sebold has some great moments in this book, but she tries too hard to put in symbolism and metaphors that just don't work. Frankly, I didn't even like the title metaphor about bones connecting us because I was so irritated at how blunt it was. It felt like the book was trying to hit me over the head with the connection theme. The book ends up being so overly sentimental (particularly the chapter entitled "Snapshots") that, though I was curious as to what would happen, I wasn't sure if I could go on reading. The elements of the plot don't flow naturally from the characters. When Mr. Salmon goes out into the field, for instance, his character had not been built up enough for us to believe that he would knock anyone out with a bat. And when Mrs. Salmon left, I could not feel any sympathy for her no matter how much of an oppressed housewife she was. I felt more sympathy for Laura Brown in The Hours and she didn't have half the possible reasons for leaving that Mrs. Salmon does. Mr. Harvey doesn't make much sense either. Sebold includes excerps about his childhood and how his mom made him steal and his unhappy home life, but I'm not sure why. They didn't make me feel any more sympathy for him. In fact, they made him into a very thin, flat character. Susie was a delightful narrator--I especially liked when she recounts one of the sad tales of another victim who was lured into the back of a van and says "I like to think I wouldn't have gone into a van. Like to think it was my curiousity about how [Mr. Harvey] could make a hole in the earth that wouldn't collapse." If it weren't for the last third of the book, I may have given The Lovely Bones an additional star and recommended it to some of my friends, but right around that "Snapshots" chapter the book just spiraled into unbelievability on all fronts.
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Summary: a beautiful gift of hope...
Review: I won't bother going into what the book is about since the other reviewers have already done so...but as someone who has lost my best friend to a brutal and sensless murder...reading this book comforted me in many ways. It made me feel as though she really is up there in her own heaven, watching over what i am currently doing...and that just makes all I do all that more important and meaningful to me. I would recommend this book to anyone that has ever experienced loss. the loss of a friend, a family member, a spouse...it will make you wonder, cry, and smile...Wonderful Job!
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Summary: What's all the hype about?
Review: This book missed the point somewhere along the way. There was so much potential to this story. However, it just made it to mediocre. There is too much filler and incidental information written. It would have been so much more exciting to be quick and to the point and to keep those characters moving in more compelling ways. It starts off just fine..and then becomes too boring. A great disappointment. DLD
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Summary: Ouch.
Review: The writer does a very good job showing us pain and how different people deal with hurt and loss. I'm sure it'll make an interesting movie wherein you'll watch several people cry.
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