I can't count how many times I almost cried.

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	• The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold Large Print Press, 2004 - 511 pages average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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Intense

I hear everywhere, that the beginning of this book is the best but honeslty, I think it's so boring. The whole first 15 chapters seemed as if the book was going no where. But....I stiked to it and it got sooooo much better. It's a very intense book and opens up a lot of doors. Ironicly, one of my schoolmates died while I was finishing this book. It really eases my mind about where she is now. I definatly recommend this book to those who have lost someone in there life. (It's not religious at all).

Lovely "Bones"

They say that a ghost remains tied to the world of the living either to avenge its death or to comfort those left behind. The heroine of Alice Sebold's haunting, sweet novel "The Lovely Bones" isn't out for revenge, but her ties to the living family and friends make debut an amazing, uplifting story.

Susie Salmon is dead. On a day like any other, she was raped and brutally murdered by a seemingly harmless neighbor, who hacked up her body and buried it. Now she exists in a surprisingly simple and pleasant heaven, watching her family and friends after she vanished, and watching their lives unfold even after hers has ended.

Her parents cling to hope that even though a lot of blood and part of an arm has been found, that Susie is still alive. But eventually, they must give up hope. Susie watches the police investigate her death, while her father pokes around to find out whodunnit. And just as importantly her family and friends stumble through the various stages of grief, trying to deal with a horrible, senseless crime that has touched each of them.

When someone is kidnapped and/or murdered, the news usually focuses on the criminals and the gory details. Not much attention is given to the victims and the lives they once led, or how their loves ones are dealing with the tragedy. Other books would be self-conscious or miserable dealing with that kind of story, but "Lovely Bones" is something very different.

Instead, this book possesses a quiet, comforting tone and a poetic style. Sebold's writing has an innocent charm; one enchanting scene has Susie trying to make a flower bloom for her father, and filling a celestial room with flower petals instead. The only really gritty scene is the rape-and-murder, which is all the more shocking when you realize that things like this happen in real life.

Susie herself is a truly unique character, a narrator completely removed from the events she describes, and yet so wrapped up in the people she loves, and has left behind. And Sebold explores the many characters as they go through the grieving process, with different thoughts and actions as they try to deal with it. The parents, the siblings, the teachers, and even the kid who was enamored of Susie.

Alice Sebold's "Lovely Bones" shocks you at the beginning, and spends the rest of the book drying your tears. Beautiful, enchanting, disturbing and very unique.

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I can't count how many times I almost cried.

A very touching book, I got a little sense of Nicholas Spark's style in it but with a little more of a story to it rather than just another love story.

This is a perfect airplane book (which is when I read it) an easy read if you've got nothing else to really do.

It's really hard to write a review of a fiction book with out giving away parts of it, but you can tell somewhat that it's a debut novel for the author, the writing style is slow at times but the story keeps it together.

WOW!!!!

I don't even know where to begin with this book. A friend of mine had been telling me about forever, so I borrowed it from her. Wow! I have never felt so connected to characters in a book. The author makes you feel like you have known these people your whole life. I can't even put into words the emotions you go through reading this book. I reccomend it to everyone now. It was a fast read which was the one thing that disappointed me the most. I actually bought my own copy of this book because its one I will read over and over again.

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Moving and memorable

Susie Salmon tells us the story of when she was raped and murdered. Of course, such a story must be told from the Afterlife, as the narrator is, well, dead. The story has two emphases: the never-quite-completed investigation into the crime, and the massive ripple-effects of the crime upon the victim's family. The author, Alice Sebold, also has Susie describe an interesting version of Heaven.

George Harvey, the rapist/murderer, is interesting in just how uninteresting he is. Most stories of serial rapists and/or killers depict the villain as a monster whom everyone should recognize as such. George Harvey, to those who do not know what he has done, comes off as boring, slightly eccentric, and even mildly pitiable or pathetic. The evil is well-hidden in this villain, who is slowly destroying himself as he quickly destroys the lives of his victims and severely damages the lives of their families.

The turmoil of Susie's family, following her disappearance, is pretty realistic, given my own personal experience with losing a family member, and from my work, as a child psychologist, with children and families recovering from traumatic losses. The shifting alliances, the drifting away and coming together, the emergence of hidden strengths and hidden flaws, and the conflicts, are all not uncommon.

The writing of "The Lovely Bones" occasionally gets slightly bogged down in detail, but is generally good. Given that this was Alice Sebold's debut novel, it is a triumphant debut. If she can grow as a writer, and come up with more stories that are out-of-the-box like "The Lovely Bones," we will be treated to some interesting reading material. If you enjoy this book, try "Hey, Nostradamus" by Douglas Coupland (and if you already enjoyed "Hey, Nostradamus" you will like "The Lovely Bones").

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A New York Times Bestseller

When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from that strange new place she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a fourteen-year-old, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. Susie watches life continuing after her brutal death: her loved ones holding out hope she'll be found, her killer covering his tracks. As months pass without leads, she sees her family contorted by loss. With compassion, longing, and a growing understanding, she sees them face the worst -- then, in time, pass through grief and begin to mend.

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