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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. An absolutely beautiful novel. I have a feeling I'll be reading this one again soon. (  ) lesleydawn | Jan 6, 2010 |  this book jwas a great book.. i like this book because it kept me on my toe wondering whats goin to happenn next. this book was about a young girl who went missing and no one knows what happen to her. She htells her story from haven and knows who killed her and want to tell her father that he's right in front of hem but she can'tg talk from haven. So the dad try to figure it out by hemself because he don't think the cope are trying hard.. So he thinks it's the person who lives next door.. But don't have any proof. df1a_jasminC | Jan 6, 2010 | A great, literary book about a teen's murder. The act of the murder is just the first chapter; the rest of the book focuses in on how she, her family and loved ones cope with her death. ( ) deforestRMS | Jan 6, 2010 | Great Book - for me it starts out a little on the boring side but evolves into a suspenseful and dramatic read. Rockett12 | Jan 5, 2010 | When a novel begins with a murder, you naturally expect a murder mystery. The Lovely Bones isn't one, not really. Only a small portion of the story is devoted to the search for the killer. It's really a tale of the slow disintegration, and ultimately, healing of a family as the members try to cope with loss and succeed or fail in their own way, and of the slow letting go of a lost child. ronda73ca | Jan 4, 2010 | 
 Sebold's compelling and sometimes poetic prose style and unsparing vision transform Susie's tragedy into an ultimately rewarding novel. Although some sections tend toward melodrama... other passages are dreamy and lyrical. Most striking is Sebold's mastery of a teenager's voice, from such small details as Susie's Strawberry-Banana Kissing Potion to her completely believable thought processes.  An extraordinary, almost-successful debut that treats sensational material with literary grace, narrated from heaven by the victim of a serial killer and pedophile.  Don't start "Lovely Bones" unless you can finish it. The book begins with more horror than you could imagine, but closes with more beauty than you could hope for. Sebold takes an enormous risk in her wonderfully strange début novel: her narrator, Susie Salmon, is dead—murdered at the age of fourteen by a disturbed neighbor—and speaks from the vantage of Heaven. Such is the author's skill that from the first page this premise seems utterly believable... If in the end she reaches too far, the book remains a stunning achievement.
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0316168815, Paperback)On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey.Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, The Lovely Bones, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams," where "there were no teachers.... We never had to go inside except for art class.... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue." The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years like an episode of My So-Called Afterlife. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family, and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on Earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow." Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish, and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons (retrieved from Amazon Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:39:03 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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