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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 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 |  I bought this book on a whim after reading a plot summary for the upcoming movie and was pleasantly surprised. The story follows the afterlife of fourteen year old Susie Salmon after her brutal rape and murder as well as the lives of those she left behind. The ending may leave some readers unsatisfied, but overall it's a very worth-while read. (  ) FireandIce | Jan 1, 2010 | The bones of it is that the story is a good rainy day book but the ending is...well...missing something......the story is solid but the details are lacking. I enjoyed it and would recommend it, with the disclaimer that it leaves you unsatisfied at the end. (  ) LorLe | Dec 31, 2009 | I loved the beginning of this book: The first few chapters were great. After that, however, the story drags on and unfortunately never gets any better. I had some trouble getting through the middle part of the book; it was just plain boring. The ending was also a disappointment. There are a few good points, but I don't think I'd recommend this book to anyone. Not the worst book I've ever read, but not the best either. ( ) kimifly | Dec 29, 2009 | I had heard great reviews about this book and I had been meaning to read it for a while, and yet I dd not enjoy it very much. I found it rather depressing throughout and I felt the ending was unsatisfactory. I was expecting some great revelation on how Susie's murderer was captured and the fact that he was hit by an icicle and fell into a ravine seemed ridiculous. I also didn't like the part where Susie somehow inhabits her friend's body so that she can lose her virginity to her highschool crush. After that it seemed like her life was then 'fulfilled' and she could finally be at peace. It just seemed shallow and just plain strange.I guess the only part that was somewhat interesting was the author's concept of heaven, how everyone's heaven is what makes them most happy and that you only share your heaven with other people who enjoy the same kinds of things. Even though this was thought provoking, the overall depressing mood and unfulfilling ending left me unsatisfied. (  ) jewels1864 | Dec 25, 2009 | 
 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 Product Description (ISBN 0316166685, Mass Market Paperback)When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from this strange new place, she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a fourteen-year-old girl, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. In the weeks following her death, Susie watches life on Earth continuing without her-her school friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her family holding out hope that she'll be found, her killer trying to cover his tracks. As months pass without leads, Susie sees her parents' marriage being contorted by loss, her sister hardening herself in an effort to stay strong, and her little brother trying to grasp the meaning of the word gone. And she explores the place called heaven. It looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets. There are counselors to help newcomers adjust and friends to room with. Everything she ever wanted appears as soon as she thinks of it-except the thing she most wants: to be back with the people she loved on Earth. With compassion, longing, and a growing understanding, Susie sees her loved ones pass through grief and begin to mend. Her father embarks on a risky quest to ensnare her killer. Her sister undertakes a feat of remarkable daring. And the boy Susie cared for moves on, only to find himself at the center of a miraculous event. The Lovely Bones is luminous and astonishing, a novel that builds out of grief the most hopeful of stories. In the hands of a brilliant new writer, this story of the worst thing a family can face is transformed into a suspenseful and even funny novel about love, memory, joy, heaven, and healing.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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