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The Lovely Bones

 Alice Sebold

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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 happy suburban family 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 love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite 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, beautiful 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 put 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".



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chicky2012ful rated this book  
 

really goood book i recomend but in the book she gets raped so its for a pretty mature audience

2 months ago...

Beaniebear1

Has anyone read lovley bones is it a good book??

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ken1zie commented:

its a very,very sad book

5 months ago...

chicky2012ful commented:

really io hated the movie luve da book

2 months ago...

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leely rated this book  
 

i love this book........

2 months ago...

cher911 rated this book  
 

I hate that old man poor susie she just found her true love and then she just get murded.

4 months ago...

ken1zie rated this book  
 

i watched the movie 2 and i almost cried

5 months ago...

RBBDDB23 rated this book  
 

I loved the movie. I watched it by myself and I cried at the end, my mother watched it by herself and she didn't cry at the end. :( I loved this book too. Out of my favorites this one would be my all time favorite.

5 months ago...

Bell14 commented:

I love this book but it's so sad cried when I watched the movie :( I think the book and the movie were good

5 months ago...

RBBDDB23 commented:

Yeah. It's one of my favorite movies.

5 months ago...

bigvon rated this book  
 

I loved this book but I have put off watching the film as the films are often not always as good as the books.

5 months ago...

phoebejane rated this book  
 

I read this book ages ago and have just seen the movie, they're both great :)

5 months ago...

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Alice Seybold's The Lovely Bones is one of the most popular book added to bookshelves today on thereadingroom.com. We recommend you read the book before you see the film!

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melly247 commented:

yes it they are both quite close. I cried in both the book is definatly better and sadder though as it shows more indepth thoughts and feeling of the other characters other than susie

5 months ago...

Tayubi commented:

I have the movie but never read the book.

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live to read rated this book  
 

I found I liked the book just as much as the movie. most of the time they dont follow the same form book to movie .we'v all had that happen I think they can't always get it right.

10 months ago...

Makayla Miller rated this book  
 

i love this book

10 months ago...

shellclifford rated this book  
 

this book stays with you way after reading it.

1 year ago...

evy rated this book  
 

i have read this book twice now, and i have also seen the film, unfortunately as with most movies i was glad that i had read the book first ,this book is so moving , and at times harrowing as you are moving through each stage with sisie and her family as they all go through all the emotions possible for anyone to experience,i dont think i have read a book like this before or since and i highly reccomend it.

1 year ago...

ronsucks rated this book  
 

This book is a stupendus (sorry if I spelled that wrong) pece of written literature. It is one of my favourite books because of how detailed and explicit and realistic it is. This book is enjoyable because you can vividly picture what is happening in your head.

1 year ago...

herby1618 rated this book  
 

This is a very memorable book. I loved it. Was away from home when I brought it and gave it to a friend as i was sure she would enjoy it. I would definatley read this book again.I have just seen a clp come on the T.V that reminded me of this book, will interested to see the movie,,......i wonder how good they will be a putting this on the screen??

2 years ago...

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herby1618 commented:

Have just watched the movie and really liked it

2 years ago...

renesmee_cullen commented:

kool hoo cares hobit

1 year ago...

bigvon rated this book  
 

I loved this book. There were parts in it that gave me the chills and other parts where I wanted to shout at the person "not to do it". It was a great story although the end was disappointing. Great read.

2 years ago...

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jonesemma1987 commented:

Completely agree with the comment, the ending was sooo disappointing for me had to knock it down in the rating of it.

1 year ago...

CNik rated this book  
 

I did not care for this book at all. I hardly ever watch a movie before I've read the book and my mother has been bugging me to watch the movie with her and I was severely disappointed. Some parts were just strange and it seemed like the author didn't even know what she was talking about. The only parts I liked were the beginning and the ending, the middle was just fluff nonsense. Waste of time...

2 years ago...

eoz rated this book  
 

I was apprehensive about reading this book as I thought it would be sad/depressing. However it was brilliantly handled around such a tragic event. Bit disappointed with the ending but all together was well worth the read.

2 years ago...

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The most popular book added to bookshelves this week was Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. Read the book? Seen the film? Which did you prefer?

kuchieswife commented:

i cant wait to read this book brought it off amazon the other day so hopefully be here soon,

2 years ago...

cherrya commented:

i loved this book ...it was sad yet inspirering all should read it

2 years ago...

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stevebaldie rated this book  
 

I bought and read this book after watching the movie. I really enjoyed the movie, but after reading some reviews of it, some of which were not that favorable, I decided to read the novel. I loved it!! Its a quite beautiful book which is quite affecting at times with its depiction of love and loss. If you've seen the movie, I urge you to read the book. You wont regret it!

2 years ago...

lena rated this book  
 

I read this shortly after my father in law died and both my mother in law and myself found great comfort from the book.

Yeah I found it quite frustrating at times when I wanted to shout out who it was, but the whole story was lovely.

It really made me think about the whole life after death senario

2 years ago...

Gemma Warfield rated this book  
 

Absolutely amazing book - such an original plot. It hooks you in and stays on your mind untill you've finished it.

Really loved it ;)

2 years ago...

Michelle.smith1991 rated this book  
 

This book is excellent I absolutely love the way it is told! 5 stars!

2 years ago...

Lisa rated this book  
 

This book is one of my favorite books because it is such a well written piece of literature.This book is so daunting because the disturbing subject matter,but because of it's brilliance it consumes you, and you will not want to put this down until it's done.

2 years ago...


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