The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Lovely Bones
Book Review: A work of art
Summary: 5 Stars
Recently I decided it was about time to finish the book I had started so many months ago. I sat down one afternoon and read it all in one splurt. I think that for me, that's the way to do it. I can't do dissection. If you do that and get so wrapped up and the little miniscule things, you can't get the vibe and emotions of the book as well which I think is why I enjoyed the second half of the book A LOT.
You can clicky on the "Made to Last: The Lovely Bones" tag thing in the sidebar if you want to see what I thought of the first twelve or so chapters.
Now to the review-ish part:
I can definitely see why The Lovely Bones has left such a mark on the literary industry/on people everywhere. It's a book that works on so many levels. Alice Sebold is able to take a story of one family's tragic loss and turn it into a book that, no matter your experience, almost everyone will be able to relate to. She does it with eloquence and simplicity. She does it with almost poetic like prose at some points, and stark, brisk words at others. She knows how to manipulate your feelings, create amazingly deep and insightful characters, and most of all, make you feel along with the book.
It's one of the few stories that I've read that has really moved me and made me question the way I see things and the way I judge people. I think it's a book you have to read to believe. My pathetic words aren't going to do it any justice. And I don't think I want to over analyze it any more than I already have for fear of ruining it for myself.
So yeah, this is my crappy review.
Please read this book. It's amazing. It will move you. It will make you see things differently. And you'll love it.
Book Review: AMAZING!
Summary: 5 Stars
Amazing. That's all I can say. It was incredible how the author pulled off the narration being done by someone who is deceased in the real world. AMAZING BOOK, and you won't be able to put it down.Book Review: Alice Sebold did a great job
Summary: 4 Stars
"The lovely bones" is a fascinating novel about a young girl getting raped and killed. From her Heaven she watches now how after her death her family falls apart, her murderer still is on the loose and life on earth is not the same without her anymore.
This book tells a heartbreaking story about loss, love and letting go and is in my opinion really worth to read.
Book Review: Alice Sebold, Tori Amos and other "lucky" women...
Summary: 5 Stars
Alice's "Lucky" memoir was ironically titled as a comment on an insensitive statement by a police officer after Alice was "only" raped, unlike the last woman to be attacked in the same location, who had been brutally murdered. Like singer/songwriter Tori Amos, who co-founded RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network) Alice is a rape survivor, and this brutal life-changing event fuelled the brilliant yet disturbing novel The Lovely Bones.
What follows is just my own take on the story. We all interpret things differently, so here we have my two cents' worth...
Like the Tim Robbins movie Jacob's Ladder, The Lovely Bones is the victim's Book of the Dead journey of the soul. The heaven she describes does not exist except as the quantum reality that the Between Lives Area manifests as. No, we cannot die. We can lose our bodies, but we go on and eventually come back and back and back... and I have had enough past life regression to be quite sure about that.
(Spoiler-ish thingy coming up...) Where she interacts with Ruth, in the form of a temporary Walk In or benign possession, this may actually take place or it may be a fantasy, we have no way of knowing, nor does she.
The name Salmon may have been chosen to represent the cycle of Return. Salmon live in the sea until maturity - between 1 and 7 years, depending on the species; and some migrate hundreds, and even thousands of miles in the sea. They then somehow return to the place where they hatched and continue the Cycle. No-one knows how salmon can possibly find their way home. Susie Salmon finds her way back to revisit the people she spent her brief life with as part of a greater finding her way Home.
As for the connection between all things, the subject of Non-Locality as it relates to prayer and spiritual issues/human relationships, hinges on Bell's Theorem, as proposed by John Bell in 1964. Bell's Theorem, which is supported by experimental evidence, indicates that once subatomic particles have been in contact, they always remain connected. A change in one creates a concurrent change in the other, even if they are a universe apart. Susie's connection to events can be explained both in physical terms i.e. the quantum field, and in spiritual terms, whereby her soul (which exists outside of space-time) is initially unwilling to let go of the Earth and her incomplete life.
The book succeeds on many levels, not the least of which is as a much-needed reminder that we must do everything possible to eradicate the basis for male violence against women.
Steven Cain, author of Sirius Moonlight: The Origins Of The Suppression Of The Feminine.
Book Review: Almost Poetic
Summary: 4 Stars
Mesmorizing.
I decided to slightly alter my style of writing after reading this book. It wasn't intentional, but I noticed some changes in my techniques.
That is how great this story is: enough to seep into your mind and alter your life.