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I bought this book years ago. I still cannot say I have finished it, although, I have gotten through more than half of it. I never really got into the plot, I found it pretty hard to stay involved... more

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  • 66 of 66 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Ryan74

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Unique premise, excellent narration

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Mawkishly over-sentimental, unrealistic and a bit soppy

    Given the glut of reviews on ‘The Lovely Bones’, it seems that this is a very popular novel. Indeed, this book is one of the biggest selling books of the past twenty years on both sides of the Atlantic. It has made Alice Sebold into one of the most prominent modern American writers and has been featured on many different talk shows, arts programmes and critical review shows. Most famously, the book was the winner of the Richard & Judy book club award on their Channel 4 show. Alice Sebold shot to fame with her first book, ‘Lucky’, which was an autobiographical account of her life to date ... more
  • 96 of 96 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 SueMagee

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    Reviews written: 233

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A beautifully-written, elegantly constructed book.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Sentimental in places.

    Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon is raped and murdered in a cornfield on her way home from school. Most of her body is never found but there is sufficient evidence for her family – mother, father, brother and sister – to accept that she is dead. Her murderer is a neighbour and serial killer. Susie’s mother had admired his flower border and her father had discussed fertilizer with him. When Susie gets to heaven she finds that it looks like her local school and she only has to think of something for it to appear magically, except she cannot return to the people she loved on earth. She can only ... more
  • 20 of 20 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    stephbond89

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages An amazing book which evokes so much emotion in the reader.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages May be a little disturbing for some readers in the beginning.

    The Lovely Bones: Alice Sebold Introduction I saw a trailer on TV a couple of weeks ago for the film which is based on this book, and when my mum told me it was a brilliant book, I couldn’t help myself from going online and buying it from Amazon. I had never heard of it before even though it’s first publishing was in 2002. As soon as the book hit my front door mat, I opened it up and started to read it. On Amazon the book was classified with “If you like this you will also like: The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger”, as I adored that book, and subsequently the film, I had very high ... more
  • 38 of 38 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 ms19

    Member since 02/03/2002

    Reviews written: 1111

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages beautifully written, addictive

    Disadvantages Disadvantages -

    With it getting towards the summer, I am always on the look out for a new book to read and almost always I will opt for something in the chick lit genre. However, I have heard so many good things about this book the lovely bones which is why I have always been intrigued to find out more. So many people have talked about it but yet I never really had any idea as to what it was about. It wasn't until my mother finished reading it and handed me her copy that it persuaded me to give this book ago, stepping out of my chick lit safety zone. COVER This book is quite bold on the front and has a fade ... more
  • 77 of 77 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Pumpkin

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Original idea, beautiful writing style

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not as gripping as I would normally like

    “My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.” And so begins “The Lovely Bones”, Susie’s story, told as she looks down on the world from her heaven, in the aftermath of her tragic death. Susie’s murder in the cornfield behind her house, by a local man, George Harvey, sends shockwaves through her neighbourhood, her school, her friends and her family. Susie watches the effect it has upon the lives of those closest to her, and the story spans the ten years following her death. She watches as life ... more

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Type Fiction
ISBN 0316001821; 0316168815; 0316170720; 0316173223; 0316666343; 0330485377; 0330485385
Publisher Picador
Number of Pages 256
Genre Modern Fiction

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