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| The Lovely Bones (Book Review) |
I picked this book to read due to it coming to cinema's. I like to compare the writing and story to the film once I see it.
I think that the film in this case would be far better than the book. I sometimes pick up a book that is a bestseller, reading fantastic ravings and reviews on them, and then buy them. But once I have read them, I find them to be dull, not very creative, senseless, boring or really really stupid. This is my opinion though, so don't hate me for it since everyone is entitled to one.
I wonder how these "bestsellers" became bestsellers in the first place, supposedly it's based on sales. Then I wonder what type of people must be reading these things, and how they could enjoy such tasteless writing techniques etc. (for any books, in general)
We've gone downhill since Anne of Green Gables and Jane Austen. Getting back to "The Lovely Bones" it is based on a girl named Susie Salmon, who gets raped and murdered by one of her neighbours who once asked her Father for advice on garden mulch. Susie goes to heaven (there's a lot of strange theology in this book) and watches her sister awkwardly go through life as well as the rest of her family.
Ruth, whom Susie touches before she leaves earth, becomes obsessed with her, her murder and death in general, not really knowing whether she is straight or gay. She wants to become Susie, and actually becomes best friends with Ray, who Susie was kind of going out with before she died and shared her first kiss with. Ruth eventually starts seeing visions of other murders and swaps places with Susie in heaven for an evening so she can do some unfinished business.
Susies Mother, who never wanted Susie in the first place thinks she is being punished for not wanting her. She retreats into herself becoming the person she once was, selfish and based in loneliness, she starts an affair with the police officer investigating Susies murder, which she then disposes of and leaves her Family altogether, which forces her 4 year old son at the time to hate her 10 years later when she comes back into their lives.
Susies Father, whom is the most amiable character in the book and loved Susie very much tries to put his family back together, is out of his mind with grief and suspects the neighbour for murdering his child.
Susie watches her sister fill her shoes and become everything that Susie could have done. The neighbour is eventually found out but is long gone when they figure it out, although Susies body is never found. He dies while stalking another victim, when an icicle falls from the edge of a building.
I found the book to make sense, but it seemed like the writer was trying to make it become confusing, complicated and strangely twisted. I didn't find it ghostly or intriguing. What Sebold should have done to captivate her audience, was to wrap the book up, by making the time line shorter and have the police actually figure out who did it and capture him.
I can't wait for the film to come out, as it has fantastic actors and actresses in it. And unlike Twilight, it will be fantastic if it is rushed.
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Posted by Emerson on 2009-11-04 05:55:55 | Rating: | Views: 21
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