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	• The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold Amazon Remainders Account, 2004 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 2539 reviews view larger image
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Weepy Good

I stole this book from the stairs of a friend, and had it read curled on my side, hair greasy and unwashed, waiting for Susie to let herself die. I was crying by the first chapter.

I thought it a stroke of brilliance that Sebold used an idea of C.S. Lewis's 'Great Divorce' hell as her heaven (I had always thought I'd prefer his hell to his heaven, I'd like something solitary, a cabin in the clouds where I can't see anyone, but those I choose as my own family).

Susie's narrative voice was in many ways unbelievably clear, she saw things outside of herself and I would have liked to see more of the loss in death and emotion. But this is Sebold's story, and she wrote primarily about the gain in death, what happened on earth after, and dwelt less on what happened in heaven. For me, I saw the loss of Susie through her desires fulfilled in heaven, not through her voice, which came across as independent of someone with vested interest in what happened on earth.

I loved this book, from beginning to end, the ending is as peaceful as the beginning is terrible. Read it. I recommend it.

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Beautiful, Poignant, Sad

I just finished The Lovely Bones, and then I cried for an hour. Now my face is poofy.

The book is, of course, sad. However, it also has a beautiful image of heaven and a wonderful story of a family that ends up healed and whole after the death of their daughter. I was comforted by the way Susie could look down on her family and be near them, even make herself known to them a time or two. In the beginning, Susie spends time thinking of all the things she will never get to do, which of course was terribly hard for me to read, but the worst of it? The absolute worst part was reading about her individual family members as they broke up under the pressure of their own grief. That was what had me crying on the bus. Honestly though, the book was wonderful. It's just something that some of us will have to read alone, in the dark, with wine.

Verdict: A

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