Lucky

Rating:
Summary: Outstanding
Review: The best book I've read this year. I've passed the CD on to my husband and a number of friends. They all loved it and couldn't stop listening.

Rating:
Summary: A real tale, full of sound and fury
Review: This book is so many things, but the one that comes first to mind is "brave." For Seabold to have written this is amazing--the courage it must have taken. But that aside, it is well-written. I read "Lovely Bones" first, and then this one. While the premise of "Lovely" was great, I found "Lucky" to be a better book. Don't get me wrong, I like both of them, but "Lucky" was by far the more "real" tale. Try them both and then decide for yourself.

Also recommended: McCrae's Bark of the Dogwood, A Boy Called It

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Summary: Lucky Review
Review: When Alex Sebold was eighteen, enrolled as college freshman at Syracuse University, she was attacked and raped on the last night of school walking home late at night. She was forced onto the ground in a dark tunnel "among the dead leaves and broken beer bottles." She gives descriptive details of the rape and its immediate aftermath inside the dorm, while at the police station, and at home with her parents. After going to the police she was informed that the same place where she had been raped there had been the murder of a different young woman, and was also raped. Alex Sebold considered herself very lucky. Thus as a writer she decided to share her life altering experience. Changing the names of all characters for privacy, this book was non the less very, very moving.

Alice Sebold not only wrote through this book about how she overcame her rape and was able to survive it. She also gave the her audience a certain amount of knowledge of the real world and the dangers that come along with it. It is an amazingly well written book. A memoir is self-centered descripted work. She wrote in a sense for herself, victims who have encountered the same situation or a very similar situation. I have not read her other book, The Lovely Bones, but after reading this very moving book I am curious of what The Lovely Bones could do to move me like this one did.