Rated of 5
by Lex
IT WAS A GREAT BOOK! AT SOME PARTS I WAS JUST DISCUSTED, BUT I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN. I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!! LOVED IT!!!!!
Rated of 5
by Lori
This has to be the most over-hyped book I've read. It's painfully boring, non-descript and uneventful. If this is required reading in schools, you're going to turn a lot of kids into non-readers.
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by DWO
Everyone knows someone who has had a child that has been killed, either by a childhood disease or by tragic circumstances, as in The Lovely Bones. We can only imagine what the parents, siblings, loved ones and the community do to cope with the loss. By reading this book, one gets a painful insight into what that loss must be like. The devastation that the parents feel is palpable....I have a young child of Susie's age and it is incomprehensible that I could go on living, obsessing about what kind of terror and pain that she would be feeling at the time of abduction. The parents' imaginings of how Susie met her end is, in this case, as bad as they think it is.
I loved the fact that it was narrated by Susie herself and as I went through the book, I held out a hope that this is how heaven could be...passed on relatives watching from above, intervening when necessary (like in Buckley's garden), showing themselves when they think it would help (like when Susie's reflection was caught up in the broken glass of a ship in her father's study when he had his breakdown).
I listened to the book on tape and it included a fairly in-depth interview with Anne Sebold herself and when you know her personal story (raped, as a virgin, when she was 18), you get an insight into why this is such a dark book.
This book will be with me for awhile and I look forward to her next project.
Rated of 5
by amanda lang
this book is so good it should be bought by everyone. if you have not read this book yet then you need to.
Rated of 5
by The Yorkster
If things get too hyped they never live up to expectations.
This book suprised me because it's a 'tweener for me. I am waiting for another book and this is the one I picked up in the interm.
I laughed, I cried...and it's a different writing perspective than normal.
How many of us have heard, seen or read stories of teenagers that get killed??? But, when you get a perspective from the person who is killed it changes the perspective you read from.
Great read.
Rated of 5
by Anonymous
Although I enjoyed this book, the hype to read it was overwhelming. I thought the book was definately OVERRATED!!! --> Keep your expectations low and you will have a better experience.
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