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Summary: Frustrating pleasure to read
Review: This book is difficult to read if you have children. It also reminds those who do have children that life does have to go on regardless of what happensm during a lifetime. The read was enjoyable because the story was believable and told from the perspective of a young adult. It was interesting to see the lives of the characters unfolding and frustrating because of the way it ended for the killer. This is worth the short amount of time it took to finish the book.
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Summary: the lovely bones
Review: this was a beautiful book. susie is a well-written character. i loved alice sebold's description of how she lives vicariously through her sister and is still the young girl she was when she died. the characters ruth and ray both developed artfully and realisticly. this is a wonderful story about the afterlife.
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Summary: Fresh look at death and what it does to us...
Review: I had read the first chapter of this book here on Amazon.com and then went on to buy it later. I couldn't put it down, and read Susie's story with many tears and much laughter. See, I was a girl in the seventies, so much of the pop culture rang so true. This book is a great read and very moving. I must say, I will not give it to my own mother to read as it would be too much for her (I too easily could have been Susie). I would reccommend it to anyone who would like help dealing with death. As a footnote, I applaud both Susie and her Author for including dogs in our own heavens - for what would heaven be without them?
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Summary: The Lovely Bones
Review: Now I have read the worst book of my entire life. This book had no redeeming values what-so-ever! Believe me, it is a waste of time. The characters were shallow, and you really could care less what happens to them. The story didn't flow right, and was all over the place. She would introduce characters (Ruth) and then you never knew or cared what happened to her. And her idea of Heaven, for gosh sakes, Woman, read the Bible! Who wants to live a life for God only to end up in a place like what she describes Heaven to be! Please don't waste your time like I did, and pick a better book for Book Club. Life is full of enough despair without adding more to it.
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Summary: Two hours I can never get back....
Review: You know, I usually pass on the hyped-up books, but I heard such great things about this one for so long I figured there had to be something to the reviews. I was very wrong. As I read I kept thinking that something would happen soon that would make all the fuss pan out. I didn't enjoy reading this book, I didn't even hate it, I was bewildered and somewhat annoyed on every page. My most common editorial comment, out loud of course, was "Oh, please!!" while rolling my eyes and holding my stomach to prevent my nausea from overtaking me. There was no poetry of language, no spiritual connectivity; it was just depressing and irritating. Two hours I can never get back.
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Summary: Very disappointing
Review: This book does not live up to its hype. It is an interesting concept, but the writing does not meet my standard for good literature. I had no desire to reread a phrase or a sentence because it was so beautifully written. This is a beach read at best.
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Summary: I'm stumped
Review: I just don't understand how this book rose to bestseller status. The writing is average at best, and the concept too weird to sustain my interest. Granted, the first fifty or sixty pages held me, but after that I put the book down and didn't pick it up again. Maybe timing is the answer to this book's success. Yeah, that's it. Has to be.
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Summary: Is this supposed to be literature?
Review: I can't believe that there isn't one criticism of this book found in the editorial reviews. Maybe it is out of respect for the author and what she has survived that no one dared to write a negative review publicly. I (reluctantly) read this book for a book club, and I admit that the first 100 pages or so kept my attention. But there could have been so many themes here -life after death, faith, the mind of a serial killer, marriage issues, etc that were touched upon but ultimately left hanging. The book didn't seem to have any real message or coherence. Aside from the unusual perspective, I felt like I might as well have been reading a Judy Blume novel about adolescence.
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Summary: Aggressively Engaged !
Review: This book has made me look differently at my own body, and at everything else that has a bone in it. Like for example the turtle soup I had last week at Richard's place: A human bone was swimming in it. Now you wonder: Why was it swimming? Well, I don't know, but then, I am not a turtle. So I just tried to fish the bone out of the soup with my teeth, and to hit Richard's mother on the head with it, but she would not let me, and gave me a kiss instead.
This was the greatest day of my life, and the worst review I have ever written. Please do not vote that you found this useless.
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Summary: Moving and Beautfiul
Review: The Lovely Bones took a horrifying situation and made it into something beautiful - the enduring love of a family touched by grief. I couldn't put this book down, all the while thinking of my own sister and our childhood. I shed tears for the Salmons, but this book also made me celebrate family and long for my old room in my parent's house, when life was simple and everything was touched with mystery.
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