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Summary: Like a train wreck!
Review: That's how I describe the first chapter to everyone. The author goes into detail about her rape.....and you can not put it down! I loved this book even if it was at times difficult to read because of all the heartache! It is a beautiful story about dispair and the strength it takes to overcome a brutal rape. It is about hope and what you can become if you put your mind to it.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: I read a lot & it is seldom I come across a novel I enjoy as much as I enjoyed "Lucky: A Memoir" by Alice Sebold. I came across moments in my memory where I confused this novel with my own life. I feel as if I have experienced it, in a way. Everyone hears of rape, this made it seem real, instead of something that only happens to other people. Overall, I feel the novel was wonderful, truly captivating, I didn't want to stop reading it. It is great to go through the brave character's journey of the rape, trial & healing process. It was written so beautifully and I find it to be an amazing contribitution to literature. I think 'Lucky" deserves all of its 5 stars and I applaud Ms. Sebold for her outstanding work.
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Summary: Victim of Rape; extrordinary Story
Review: The book Lucky, is a memoir about Alice Sebold. In the beginning, Alice describes a brutal rape in her freshman year of college. She went to her dorm room, told a friend and they went to the hospital. Alice underwent tests that would later help the police prosecute a criminal. She went home for the summer and returned back to school at Penn. State. She then ran into her Rapist on the street and called the police. They filed a law suit in which many people testified.
Alice is able to look at her case impassively enough to see that she had many things going for her in achieving a conviction; Things that were a matter of chance, as it happens, but which allowed her to see it through in a way that someone of different circumstances might not have.
She amazingly, is able to portray herself, as "lucky" - lucky to be bright, well-spoken; lucky to have been wearing concealing rather than revealing clothes on the night of the rape; lucky to have had no sexual history to hold against her; lucky to be alive.
Alice has a true talent for telling her story. And it is a story full of pain, healing, rage and sadness. She tells the story with such passion and such detail that it's hard to put down for five minutes.
I would recommend this book to anyone who can stand to read a sad detailed account of a rape and the aftermath of one. Girl or boy, Man or Woman, this story is a sad but true story, a story that I think every one should read. I would give this book 5 out of 5 for its sad story, the sad story that will haunt you for the rest of your life.
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Summary: Don't know anyone who has ever been raped? Think again.
Review: This book is a sad statement about the # of women who get raped in America, and how few report it, or seek/get a conviction. A sad statement about how a rape victim is victimized again and again throughout the reporting process and legal process.This book, in many ways reminds me of the books I read about the Holocaust. It's a brutal, horrible story that must be told and must be read. This book, I'm sure, was as hard for the author to write as it is for us to read.
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Summary: A Memoir That Reads Like a Novel
Review: Thankfully the success of Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones has brought her previously published and equally well-written memoir to light. I actually read Lucky first, and was amazed at Sebold's ability to gain insight from her real life experience and put it to such great use in her later work. Equally impressive was Sebold's amazing ability to recall and recount in such detail the experience of her rape and its aftermath. The reader learns much about so many aspects of a survivor's experience, including the impact on relationships with family and friends, the challenges within the legal/criminal justice system, the emotional/psychological ramifications, and just what it takes to truly SURVIVE such an experience. An inspiring read!
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Summary: Honest, raw and well written
Review: Sebold has a true talent for telling her story. And it is a story full of pain, healing, rage and sadness. I admire her courage in sharing her tale. Sebold is eleoquent, and shares the raw details in a way that disturbs, but does not alienate the reader. I give this book a 4 stars out of 5, as I was truly entranced by her story. "Lucky" allows the reader to look into Sebold, and also better explains her characterizations in "The Lovely Bones". (although not a necessity to read it first). I can see Susie Salmon in Sebold, or is Sebold really Susie?? A brave portrayal of a personal and tragic event in Sebold's life. I admire her for sharing this book with the world.
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Summary: A Book Everyone Should Read
Review: I picked up this book after finishing "The Lovely Bones". I had read an article that mentioned this book and decided I had to read it. It was the most incredible memoir of rape I have ever allowed myself to read. After being raped 4 times by 4 seperate men, I had found it difficult to relate to many of the books out there on the subject. But Sebold's heart-wrenching account of the rape and life afterwards helped me deal with many feelings I had not allowed myself to deal with before. I could relate especially to the way her parents treated her when she came home from school the summer after it happened. It made me feel like I wasn't the only one who went through this. Anyone who has been through or knows anyone who has suffered a violent sexual attack should read this book. It humanizes the event and gives you a real and rare perspective on how the victim feels.
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Summary: Better than The Lovely Bones
Review: I went back and read this book after reading Alice Sebold's best seller The Lovely Bones, and I have to say that this book is better. If you enjoyed her other book then this is a must read.
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Summary: A review
Review: Sebold does an excellent job telling the story of her own rape with enough distance for the reader to feel develope his or her own perspective, while simultaneously explaining her innermost feelings. Unlike many other stories of rape, she leaves the reader in the understanding that despite how far she has come since the actual rape, it is still something she deals with on a daily basis.
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Summary: Is this reveiw lucky
Review: i have just finiched the book called lucky. Where Alice Sebold reveals how her life was changed and turned up side down when she had a bad thing happen to her at the first year of her attending to college. The author Alice sebold has wrote a great book called lucky it was about her life after she had been raped. she also has wrote another book called lovely bones which was about a little girl that was raped and killed. Alice has only two books but those book have became very popular very quick.she is a great new and up coming author.i really enjoyed this book very much. it explained everything that alice sebold felt and went though. the way people changed toward her and how she had changed herself. i believe that it would be very hard to write about something that would be hard to live though the first time. it was hard for me to read without feeling the pain, anger,and hurt that she wnet though and also have to overcome. the book also talks about the afterlife of the rape. This is a great book for all girls to read.
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