The Lovely Bones
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My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer. This is Susie Salmon. Watching from heaven, Susie sees her pleased suburban family tree devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their terrible loss alone. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in like, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not reasonably finished with Susie yet …”The Lovely Bones” is a luminous and astonishing novel about life and death, forgiveness and vengeance, memory and forgetting – but, above all, about finding light in the darkest of places. ‘Spare, gorgeous and brutal prose …”The Lovely Bones” is compulsive enough to read in a single sitting, brilliantly intelligent, elegantly constructed and ultimately intriguing’ – “The Times”. ‘Moving and compelling …It will place an imperceptible but stealthily insistent hold on you. I sat down in the morning to read the first couple of pages; five hours later, I was still there, book in hand, transfixed’ – Maggie O’Farrell, “Sunday Telegraph”.Amazon.com Review
On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-ancient Susie Salmon (“like the fish”) is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and cruelly raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer–the man she knew as her national, Mr. Harvey.
Alice Sebold’s haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, The Lovely Bones, unfolds from heaven, where “life is a perpetual yesterday” and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family tree and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective effective on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie’s resembles the powerful fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her “simplest dreams,” where “there were no teachers…. We never had to go inside except for art class…. The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue.”
The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet distressing coming-of-age tale. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family tree’s dramas over the years like an episode of My So-Called Afterlife. Her family tree disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her small brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family tree, and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book–Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on Planet as “like an manufacturing accident–a gorgeous gasoline rainbow.” Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a huge end, and though things tend to wrap up a small too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such pleased endings. –Brad Thomas Parsons
Look Inside the Motion Picture The Lovely Bones (Paramount, 2010)
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 Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon |  Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon |
 Mark Wahlberg as Jack Salmon |  Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon and Director Peter Jackson |
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I do not judge that this book got a rating beyond one star! I did not find this book appealing, in fact, it was very creepy and depressing. I bought this book for the appealing details of heaven. The leader failed to bring this alive…she made heaven seem like a cold and lonely place. The charcters were all lifeless and a bit selfish…they seemed more concerned with themselves….
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is really sweet. I’ve never heard about it until five minutes ago, but a excellent friend of mine just told me about it, and he says it’s really sweet. He hasn’t read it either, but he’s going to buy if for some reason, even though it isn’t about ninjas, and he only reads books about ninjas. So you know how excellent this book must be.
They don’t publish books about ninjas much because the government is being really authoritarian in its ninja take in-up. Ninja authors are being persecuted by both night and day, but that’s okay, because they’re really sweet and they can handle it.
But I malspeak, bebother, and confusticate myself. Buy this book, and you might not only have a excellent read about the scenery of the human spirit (since that’s what a lot of excellent books are about), but you also might meet a ninja in the book store who is also buying it.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I admit that I have never read this book, but I read the excerpt and reviews etc. It is disgusting. No worldly human being has any right to write about Heaven, especially linked with what this book is linked with, having never been there. Also, especially because her description is twisted and untrue. Anyone that has ever been to sunday school or church, read the bible or believed in God knows that when you go to Heaven you will be more pleased than ever before, an that you won’t long for planet, and that you will be sinless and pure. So if you’re going to write a book about Heaven, which I reflect is just incorrect, make sure your version isn’t twisted and messed up. Nobody who writes a book will ever have a right interpretation of Heaven- it is one of persons things that is wonderful and a right gift from God, but don’t spoil it by rushing and using it, interpreting and writing books about it. That excerpt was upsetting. I suggest any knowledged or normal Christian look at this book with a disapproving eye. GOD BLESS YALL!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I cannot judge the hype this book has received. Utterly dull and unreadable. Undoubtedly one must be religious to delight in this silly, seemingly un-ending piece of supernatural tripe. America is not so different from its Muslim counterparts in embracing all this additional-worldliness – whether “heaven” or “martyrism” with 72 virgins – it’s all the same ridiculous superstition. May reason someday prevail, and only then will there be a chance of peace amongst nations.
Another gripe – soooo PC. The dark-skinned Indians were so much more gorgeous than the whites – plus she could bake the vastly better pie. Ray was angelic. His mother was superior in all ways. When will silly white writers stop genuflecting to the darker-colored? A look at racial crime might be in order. As in 99% of inter-racial crime is black/hispanic on white. Do your research you silly white liberals! Research crime stats! You then just might – maybe – find that the victims in this nation are white, not black.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
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To make a long tale fleeting, it was E X C E L L A N T .
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5