Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #241594 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04
• Format: Large Print
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 511 pages

Customer Reviews

lovely bones
i am absolutetly amazed that this fantastic book, has not yet made it ro a film. or perhaps it has. correct me if i'm wrong. won't go on, because the previous reviews say it all.

kevin p dean

A lot of money for ten pages
The first ten pages of this novel are gripping stuff - well-voiced and full of drama. Gradually thereafter it descends into the most stultifying, Derek-Aconah-like drivel. I blushed with embarrassment reading some of the later episodes and the concluding present of a drum kit and everyone thrilled to bits with life going on is the most fearful cop-out tosh imaginable. If there are spirits up there looking down, lets hope their insights intothe universe aren't this trite. Ghastly.

Sad, beautiful, haunting, uplifting and an outstanding debut
One of the best novels of the year surely (I read it in 2003) - and one that should be read by MEN as well as women! I notice that (as I write this) few of the reviews appear to have been submitted by men. This isn't a girlie book, no way. This deals with one of the most horrific of experiences and, sadly, it's the kind of thing we see on the news all the time : violent sexual assault. Of course this book is a work of fiction, but its theme is a very real issue and one that all of us need to take more seriously. Not the afterlife, but what (in this case) brought it about in the first place.

This is apparently Alice Sebold's first novel and what a special one it is. So moving was it that I often wondered if the author had suffered (in real life) as the fictional Susie's parents do.

One of the scary messages left in the mind after reading The Lovely Bones is that there's possibly a George Harvey near you right now, maybe he lives in your street, or, worse, he lives across the road from your daughter. He seems such a nice man, doesn't he? Be vigilant, please.