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Summary: Only The Strong Survive
Review: Pertaining to the novel, "Lucky," a young, eighteen year old college freshman was brutally raped and beaten in a park off campus late on night. This novel truly stounded me! Alice's ability to recover from her tragic experience and keep going with her life. Alice's ability to rebuild and construct her life was absolutely remarkable. Of course, Alice did recieve a little help from her friend Tricia at The Rape Crisis Center, and her lawyer Gail, whom was sort of like Alice's role model. I believe in order for Alice to go on she must first find a place inside of herself to shine again. Alice accomplishes this horrific feat by facing her fears and reliving that dismal night of shame. Overall, I believe Alice grows and prospers with every step she takes to eventually put her rape behind her. In the end all of Alice's hard work and will pays off when she can finally sleep at night knowing that she has sought justice and is finally at peace with herself.
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Summary: Only The Strong Survive
Review: Ideally, I considered this book quite interesting and very formal in the description of Alice Sebold's rape. I thought this story proved to be an astounding story of a young, eighteen year old woman's will to go on and accomplish the biggest mmilestone in her life. This book very throughly takes us from the p[erfect life of a college freshman with so much to offer and look forward to, down to a scared, feared Alice. Alice's rape has cost her grief, pain, and resteration. What I thought was amazing about the book was that even though Alice had been stripped away from her pride, she still manages to go on and achieve new heights and overcome her rape. Alice comes accross a few characters whom help her through. Alice's character is very strong willed and independant. It's nice to read about something you believe and instill faith in. Alice instilled faith in herself, and nshe never gave up.
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Summary: A must read....
Review: Alice Sebold wrote a very powerful memoir. I did at times find myself skimming pages to get on wtih the story. I found the ending to be a little disappointing though. I think Alice fell short at the end. It is almost as if she was tired of writing and just ended it. I would have like to have heard a little more about how her drug habit started and more on her life up to the point of writing her memoire. I do hope that Alice comes out with another book. I have shared this and The Lovely Bones with friends and family.
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Summary: I couldn' t put it down!
Review: I finished reading Alice Sebold's memoir "Lucky" last week on the recommendation of a friend. Alice has a great writing style that pulls you in from page one and creates a sense that you're there with her. She very articulatly explains her thoughts and story and leaves no questions left unanswered. I highly recommend this book to anyone, but especially survivors of rape or their family and friends. Alice Sebold is an amazing woman.
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Summary: Great!
Review: A hard look at the reality of rape through the lense of one woman's (the author's) torturous rape and her struggle to get legal justice.
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Summary: Phenomenal Woman
Review: Gripping read. Helps you understand the true and continual pain of rape survivors.
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Summary: Strong First Chapter but Started Skipping Pages
Review: One thing in common with the Lovely Bones is the fact that Sebold has an extremely effective and powerful style of grabbing the reader in the first chapter. Even though I knew what each book was about, I found both Lucky and Lovely Bones riviting in their first chapters. However, unlike Lovely Bones, I found myself skimming pages in Lucky to get to the essence of the story. I gave it 3 stars and was contemplating 4 because I was not only compelled to finish it, but found that it stayed with me enough to discuss it with friends. (one friend also agreed with the skimming technique to try to finish). The book is important because Lovely Bones would probably not have been written but for Sebold getting out this story, which is in itself a very powerful story of survival. Something to talk about. . .
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Summary: Still digesting it but a pretty good read...
Review: This book evokes so many things: acute awareness of your own essential vulnerability, a frustration that must have been shared by her family when the author sinks into self-destructive behavior, an up-close look at the horror of rape, an honest appraisal of just how long it took to reach a degree of equilibrium and healing and so much more.As someone who has worked with rape victims, I thought that she was indeed "lucky" though it is hopelessly crass and somewhat cop-like that it was pointed out to her. I've taken care of so many rape victims who were never heard in court because they were "imperfect victims"--not virginal, not as beat up, not sober. But ultimately her "luck" was not sufficient to save her from this horrific experience and horrific it was, by any standards. I was horrified by the rapists psychological victimization both at the time of the rape and subsequently. I have no doubt that many victims I worked with experienced this but didn't mention it to me. ...P>The last part of the books does have a "sometime, much later...she gets well" feeling to it. The author who was willing to give us this close up view of her assault withholds the story of her therapeutic work of her learning to feel, learning to deal with her PTSD. But that was, indeed, her perogative. Though I admit to a curiousity about that aspect of her story, I respect her right to not tell that story now or in the future. It's a nice moment of regaining and showing control over what Sebold will let us know and see about herself, an important step in dealing with an event that leaves the victim totally out of control. This is an important book and I would recommend it freely.
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Summary: A Memoir of Rare Resilience
Review: When eighteen-year-old Sebold was robbed of her last ounce of normalcy, by euphemisms, 'reasonable doubt' and blue uniforms, her counter strategy was to act like a pro. At that time and fifteen years later. The result is a testament to a sort of resilience so rare, it makes courage of any other, paper-thin. Her fearless retelling of how she was brutally raped of her virginity and state of mind simultaneously lends comfort, as an anesthetic would, and leaves one with a numbing throb in the aftermath. In first-person narrative that is at once disturbing and revelatory, she exposes common misconceptions about rape victims such as their purported wish to be sexually assaulted and the anonymous burden that weighs upon them like the 'near impossible task of acceptance', all this while battling notions of rape and picking up the pieces. Through sheer grit and an eye for detail, Sebold makes it through the ordeal and lives to tell it like it was yesterday. The steely conviction with which she placed her perpetrator behind bars now translates into a tool of empowerment for readers by way of her profound insights: 'You save yourself or you remain unsaved.'
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Summary: Lucky
Review: This is a wonderful book. I'm usually not a reader of memoirs and thus my addiction to fiction brought me first to "The Lovely Bones." Sebold's novel, original and beautifully crafted, was one of the best books I'd read in years and her memoir, in terms of writing, is easily its equal. "Lucky," with its unswerving frankness and heartbreaking honesty, surprasses it in many ways. Her themes here are similar -- how violence impacts not only the victim but one's family and friends as well as society at large -- but its deeply personal voice lends it even more power and resonance. I high recommend this.
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