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Summary: A Little Slow
Review: I was psyched to read this book because I heard that it was great, but when I actually started reading it, I thought it was boring. It's interesting because it was from Susie's point of view but it was a little slow in places and the flashbacks could have been placed a little better
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Summary: MASTERPIECE
Review: Susie Salmon, a 14 year old victim of a serial killer tells her tale from her personal heaven and this is one of the most imaginative tales I ever read. She spends much of her time exploring the nature of heaven, though paradoxically, her true idea of heaven is just to be alive and with her family and friends, be able to grow up and enjoy life. She wants to follow lives of people she knew. This is a tale of horror told without hate or bloody details. On the contrary, it is full of love and humor. Of cause, the narrator, Alyssa Bresnahan deserves the best possible marks. Her performance is outstanding. This is one of these books you cannot put down. You know the end,but you want to get there at a slow pace and make sure that the end is the right one. I think this book is one of the best books written in a long while.
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Summary: One of the best books I have read
Review: This certainly isn't a feel good type of book, but the dark, haunting story keeps you hanging on to the end. Once you start reading, you don't want to put it down. The story follows the disappearance of a young girl and the community and family reaction to that. The main character comes alive as she deals with all the things happening in her life. The author does such a good job of evoking feelings in the writer while reading.
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Summary: A Great First Novel-Interesting Parallels
Review: This book is written from the perspective of a young girl who was kidnapped and killed. It is an intense book that realistically protrays how such a tragedy effects not only an entire family...but the community at large. I was skepitcal when I first picked up this book, because, in my mind it had the possibility of being very hokey and unrealistic in its protrayal of the victim and her family...however I was delightfully proved wrong. What I found most intersting, though, was parallels that exist between this novel (a work of fiction) and the author's memior called LUCKY, in which she chronicals the life-changing event of being raped on her college campus. Especially interesting are the methods of rape and the location of the rape of Alice Sebold in comparison to the rape and murder of the main character of this book, Susie Salmon. I highly suggest reading both books and comparing them...it is interesting to see how real life effects a work of art.
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Summary: Great, but sad book!!! :(
Review: I read this book for fun not that long ago. The book starts out with a very sudden start, but slowly gets boring. I would reccoment this book to the more mature teen readers, because the book can be graphic in some areas.
Read On!!!
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Summary: A surprisingly upbeat book about tragedy
Review: Despite its morbid premise, this book left me feeling uplifted. This is a tale of a community's response to tragedy, the rape and murder of a beloved teenage girl. While the aftershock of her disappearance has understandably negative results on her family and neighborhood, the story was crafted in such a way that it ended up as a narrative of hope, not depression. More importantly, this was one of the better books I read in 2003. It kept me riveted from the first page. I would definitely recommend it.
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Summary: The Lovely Bones: review
Review: As this was the No. 1 seller when I bought it I naturally expected a lot from this book. However, after reading I was pretty disappointed at the story, which was not really what I would call intriguing. The story was told by a girl named Susie Salmon, a gifted, attractive, good-natured country girl, dearly loved by her friends and family. She was raped and murdered by a neighbor, Mr. Harvey, and went to heaven. Thus began her narration of her families, friends, and classmates' lives on earth, as they lived on, grew older and learned to accept her absence. She watched as they slowly unraveled the mystery to her death. As I mentioned before, I was disappointed in this book. The characters, first of all, like Susie and Lindsey, were uninteresting, perfect little girls, beautiful, intelligent, and loved by all; quite similar to characters in a story written by a middle-school girl. Second was the plot of the book, which was too predictable and a bit of a cliché. Nonetheless, I would recommend this book to people who like this type of stories. Plus, it was a creative to have a dead person in heaven narrate the story.
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Summary: So Sad *sniff*
Review: A very good novel but incrediably sad. I cried at least 4 or 5 times while I was reading it. Though sad its not really depressing. I found the end a bit of a dissapointment about how we don't find out why she fell from heaven or what became of Ruth. (Though I don't want to give away the whole plot)The only reason I've given it 4 stars instead of 4 was because it was so sad.
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Summary: uncovoring the mystery
Review: The rythem of this book was like no other i have ever read in my life. Each charactor is portrayed as a person with many layers, each one containing its own revealing layer of personality. I feel asthough this is what many of us may have to face and know how to handle later on in life. I had always had many questions on the subject of death and heaven, and Alice Sebold developed her settings with a great eye for detail, yet still leaving room for her readers to create their own fantasy heaven. When I first heard about this book, I was told that it was probably too old for me, and wouldn't I much rather like to read "The princesses of Bamarre" or "Ella Enchanted"? But no, I had my mind set on reading something more challenging. I wanted to read something both informative, but interesting and entertaining too. When "Salmon" is raped then murdered, she gives a life-like point of veiw on every experience she is feeling. In heaven, she has the lucky power of being able to watch life below the heavens. In some ways this is very hard for her, watching her family move on without her, watching life move on, neverending. She watches her friends go through even more pain then she went through with her raper. Even though their pain is not physical, as Salmon's was, it is emotional pain. Her family grieves too, and Salmon feels as though she is greiving along beside them.
This book was both heartfelt and honest, and it is a book that I would recomend to any young girl going through adolecence and possibly struggling through life's challenges.
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Summary: One of the Best Books I've Ever Read...
Review: Schedule time for reading this novel, because once you start, you can't put it down. I read it in 24 hours, drove it to someone I knew would love it and she read it in 24 hours. She immediately took it to someone else.... It's that kind of book. You soak it up and then want to share it.
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