The Lovely Bones: Deluxe Edition
by Alice Sebold
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Book Reviews of The Lovely Bones: Deluxe Edition
Book Review: Lovely Bones - deftly handled tragedy
Summary: 5 Stars
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold. Now this is a book with meat, well written, tight, clutches at your emotions without being maudlin. I normally avoid books and movies that are "tear jerkers" - not because I dislike the feelings engendered (I do) but because I do not like to be manipulated. The feelings -good or bad - are made real by the intent. If the intent is too force a feeling on the reader - that can be accomplished by even those with little talent on any who have even the dregs of a heart left. You just have to make the good dog die in the end. But to expose you to real emotion with intent OTHER than to get that response, elicited by a truly good writer, is worth the pain it causes. This book is raw, painful, and engaging. Highly recommended.Book Review: Disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars
I really don't know what all the hype is about. I was sorely, sorely disappointed after reading the book. This is nothing what I expected it to be. After seeing the previews for the upcoming movie, I saw the book in the store and figured I'd buy it (it cost me $2 more then the movie and more once you add in my time, gas, etc). Anyways, I thought the story was about the girls dad trying to find her killer, not her in the 'afterlife' watching how her family grew without her. There were incomplete storylines - like why did mom leave the family? This was probably the worst book I ever read and even, for the first time ever, threw it in the trash. I almost didn't finish reading it.Book Review: The Lovely Bones
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is by far one of the best books I've ever read. It's up there in my top 5 for sure. From the very beginning I was hooked. I read this in 18 hours - I couldn't put it down. After I WAS finished I thought about it for days afterwards. Makes me think Alice Sebold has some secret insight into the hereafter or something. Is she right? It all make sense to me now if she is right. That the loved ones that passed do stick around a while until they know we've "moved on", then they themselves can "move on" to the real heaven. This book comforts me almost. Alice is brilliant. As a new author myself, I feel words the same as she does.Book Review: Death Warmed Over
Summary: 3 Stars
I picked this book up because I overheard some authors talking about it.
Rape and murder are the backbones of mysteries/thrillers today and the story told by a fourteen-year-old spirit is all too common in the newspapers. It is almost, but not quite a ghost story that wanders into fantasy.
THE LOVELY BONES opens with Susie Salmon watching from the spirit world as life goes on without her, while she yearns to returned to the life she was cheated of living.
A good read on a dull day.
Nash Black, WRITING AS A SMALL BUSINESS and SINS OF THE FATHERS are available in Kindle editions.
Book Review: Emotional and Compelling.
Summary: 4 Stars
I loved this book and couldn't put it down once I started reading it. Unlike some of the other people who have posted comments here, I must say that I connected with the characters in this novel from the very beginning. Sebold makes the grief that this family endures, particularly the father's, palpable. Anyone who has a young child can feel the weight of the father's loss as he sits in his den remembering the moments that he wished he had treasured.
The only reason I did not give the book 5 stars is because the book does get a bit long toward the end. All in all, however, a terrific read.