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  • Written in a different style, the dead victim is actually speaking... Ingenious, but left me somewhat uninterested

    

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  • I started this book twice. I could not get into it the first time. I did finish it but it took me longer than usual. Child abuse is not my taste.

    

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  • This book was fine and written well enough and everything, but I didn't find it earth shattering or super interesting or anything so I don't know why everyone talks about it.

    

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  • This is the only novel i have ever read cover to cover in one sitting. I remember the night very well. I had borrowed it from my little sister a few days prior, and i was lying awake in bed, couldn't sleep. I picked it up, hoping it would be boring and lull me into dreamland. I had to work in th ... Continue

    This is the only novel i have ever read cover to cover in one sitting. I remember the night very well. I had borrowed it from my little sister a few days prior, and i was lying awake in bed, couldn't sleep. I picked it up, hoping it would be boring and lull me into dreamland. I had to work in the morning, and i needed rest. I think i only got an hour of sleep that morning. I started reading and could NOT stop. I kept thinking "this chapter would be a stopping point", but it never was. I just wanted more and more. and i also cried and cried and cried! Very sad, but quite meaningful and touching, especially if you have had to grieve from a death in your family. I recommend it for someone who has a few hours to kill, and doesn't mind getting swept up in an emotional journey of two sisters, one whom is dead, but not quite gone from the earth.

    The only reason i don't give it a "love it" rating was because it emotionally effected me so much. I think i had a couple nightmares over the weeks following reading it. Lovely Bones does have a bit of a 'horror' part to it.

    

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  • I liked Susie's perspective on death. She seemed to have a sense of humor about the whole situation. The thing that kept me turning the page--finding out if her family finds out who murdered her. We actually did this one for the high school book club I mediate in March 2005

    

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Available for the first time--a deluxe trade paperback edition of Alice Sebold's modern classic.Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages. The Lovely Bones is such a book - a phenomenal #1 bestseller celebrated at once for its narrative artistry, its luminous clarity of emotion, and its astoniishing power to lay claim to the hearts of millions of readers around the world."My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on eath continue without her - her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable traged and loss, The Lovely Bones succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy"A stunning achievement." -The New Yorker"Deeply affecting. . . . A keenly observed portrait of familial love and how it endures and changes over time." -New York Times"A triumphant novel. . . . It's a knockout." -Time"Destined to become a classic in the vein of To Kill a Mockingbird. . . . I loved it." -Anna Quindlen"A novel that is painfully fine and accomplished." -Los Angeles Times"The Lovely Bones seems to be saying there are more important things in life on earth than retribution. Like forgiveness, like love." -Chicago Tribune

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