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Pepper · Kenneth Cole

The Lovely Bones

Andrea Julia · Coach

I second that! That was a great book! You just made me want to read it again.

Amelie · Kenneth Cole

I... third (?)... that. It's a great book, and it really changed my outlook on life (and death).

scarlett · Marc Jacobs

i (fourth) that! you are making me want to read it again too. i read it while on vacation with my younger brother (our last brother/sister adventure before he got married) and it made me think a lot about love and family.

ranchera20 · Marc Jacobs

I think I'll go and check this out soon! Can someone give me a brief summary about it please? The title is so different and the pic on the cover gets me confused!!!

sage · Dooney & Bourke

I was book shopping recently and picked this one up. I also got The Kite Runner, and I can't remember what else.......The second hand bookstore I go to is great. I am just finishing I Know This Much Is True (good book) and then I am going to read The Kite Runner, and then The Lovely Bones. I have heard lots of great things about it, good to hear your positive review!!

ranchera20, I can give you a quick summary, paraphrased from the back of the book-The book is narrated by a 17 year old girl who has been murdered. She is in heaven and is watching her family try to put their lives together. She is also watching her killer try to cover his tracks. When I first heard about this book I thought the idea of a girl narrating from heaven was just bad, but I am warming to the idea because of the concept that the bad thing has already happened and we are reading about the aftermath from a unique perspective.

Oh, the other books I got were Of Human Bondage and the John Steinbeck one about King Arthur (The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights)

halleybird · Hermes

I bawled my eyes out in that book -- I still think about it. It was spiritual without being cheesy.

Seashells · Dooney & Bourke

I must say that I was captivated by that book. It was a wonderful take on what life is like after we die. It actually give you hope when you have such a hopeless situation.

Two thumbs up!

nunzi182 · Kate Spade

I too read that and thought it was hard to put down, but very sad at the same time.

Christine · Coach

Wow, you guys have made me want to read this so bad! I think I will go to the bookstore this weekend!

atlgirl · Gucci

That is one of my favorites. In fact, I put it with our "classic" book section on the bookshelf, because I really think it is a "new" classic. It's beautifully written.

Maddie · Coach

You guys should read Lucky too by the same author (if you haven't already). It's her story about getting raped at the end of her freshman year of college. Apparently when she was writing The Lovely Bones she kept getting her own experience into it so she went and wrote Lucky first.

Amelie · Kenneth Cole

sage wrote:

The book is narrated by a 17 year old girl who has been murdered.

It's actually about a 14-year-old which was heart-wrenching to me, because I was about 15 when I first read it.

blubirde · Chanel

I thought it was a great book and I've recommended it to several people. Everyone who has read it loves it. Definitely a good read.

dc · Dooney & Bourke

No offense to anyone's opinion here, but I actually... errr... hated it. It just got sort of sappy and predictable. And, on the other hand, there were places where I actually said, "Oh, please. Come on." I thought the characters were sort of one-dimensional.

I think because I had read a book a couple of years ago on a similar subject (told from the POV of a girl who died) with a grittier look at the whole issue.

-- Edited by dc at 20:59, 2005-09-26

jacL · Coach

I agree this is a great book, but "Lucky" is even better--and more sad.