The Lovely Bones: Novel

mandysmear

Wow, I just started reading this book and so far it's really good.  I saw a preview for the movie too.  I think it'll be out before the new year.   Lots of (well known) novels are becoming movies.It seems like a craze.Anyone read it?  Or have any other books they want to talk about?

punkyb2b

I loved it.  easy quick read.

JoKelsiC

Incredible book. Very sad, but really good. I'm way excited about the movie too, but the girl is the same girl from Atonement and I really didn't like her.

eastunder1

This is hands down one of my favorite books. It's just fantastic.  I love it so much, I'm almost irritated that theyre making it into a movie. Her next book "The Good Moon" was horrible. I didn't even finish it.  Don't make the same mistake as I did thinking it would be great too. 

eastunder1

The Almost Moon? 

bbyckes

Mandy, YES.  It was a book I could not put down.  It became one of my favorites.  So haunting and sad.  I still think about it and I've read it about 4-5 years ago.  I am also waiting for the movie.  I hope it doesn't disappoint.Don't read her follow-up, The Almost Noon.  It really is unbearable.n As for good reads, I suggest Sharp Objects by Gillian Flyn.  Dark, suspense thriller.  Excellent.

Gabs71109

I liked it a lot. I did not like Lucky and was hoping to after enjoying The Lovely Bones so much.

duckie1905

I loved it!

sameoldash

I loved it. Like PP said, though, Almost Moon was uhh different.  Her books always take place over a fairly short period of time, which makes them either really intense or really weird.She has a memoir called "Lucky" which I really want to read soon. 

temerityjane

I didn't like it at al, read it several years ago. I barely even remember it, I'm pretty sure I found it either dull or pretentious (it could be either of those, those are the main reasons I don't like a book). I've heard a lot of people praise it, though, so I'm somewhat tempted to revisit.

noelle24

This is one of those books that I can't decide if I love it or hate it. But I certainly couldn't put it down or stop thinking about it after I read it. The opening was hard to stomach for me.  I also read Lucky, which wasn't as good.  But it's an autobiographical account of the author's own rape.  So it kind of explained to me how she could write such graphic things in Lovely Bones.

razdazzle_22377334

I read that book a few years ago.  I LOVED IT!  The latest book I read was The Piano Teacher by Janice K. Lee.  I literally read it in three days, I couldn't put it down.  Although I was slightly disappointed in the ending...I would still recommend it.

Bubbalub

I read it several years ago, about the same time as I read The Time Traveler's Wife. It was good, but not fantastic, at least for me. Then again, I don't read much regular fiction, more sci-fi. [/geek]I loved The Time Traveler's Wife, though. It made me cry and I haven't had the heart to read it again because it was so poignant.

september's bride

I wasn't a huge fan of The Lovely Bones either...and I can't tell you why, because I'm not sure. There wasn't anything wrong with it, really, but it didn't stand out as a book for me.

Ciaram22

Excellent book! One of my favorites. I recently finished My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult and it was really good. I then read The Tenth Circle also by JP and it was good but the ending was crap.

BecW2be

I started reading it shortly after my Ex left, and it was too much. I got depressed and put it down. I think I'm in a better place now, so I may just pick it up and start over after the wedding. I barely have time to sh!t, shower and shave as it is with all this wedding junk to do!

tlv204

I really liked The Lovely Bones as well, I didn't realize it was becoming a movie! I haven't read any of her other books though.  Another one I really liked was The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Also, Life of Pi.  I feel like I read Life of Pi like 5 years after everyone else, but I still really liked it.

aerinpegadrak

I read it a few years back, when it had been on the bestseller list for ages.  Honestly, I didn't care for it.  I read it immediately after The Dogs of Babel, and The Time Traveler's Wife, both of which are excellent, and it fell flat for me.  I didn't connect with any of the characters and I thought it was kind of melodramatic. I just finished Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which was fun, but not quite what it had the potential to be.  I just read a review for Blame in EW, and am probably going to pick that up next.  It sounds phenomenal.

SparrowSong

I'm always surprised so many people like this book. I thought it was poorly written and relied way too much on emotional manipulation.  It REALLY lost me with the body snatching sex scene. I mean COME ON. That is not good literature.

mandapanda78

One of my top five favorite books of all time. I'm... hestitant about them making it a movie. I refuse to see the Lifetime Television version of Time Traveller's Wife, it looks too sappy and that book was gorgeous.

BubbleJ

The Lovely Bones book was great, agree with East, the Almost Moon was terrible. It ended and I was looking for more pages.Personally I think Peter Jackson will have ruined the movie, but I really don't like his style (and I'm from NZ, shock!)Hands down fav book, My Sisters Keeper, also coming out as a movie

therickson

I made the mistake of starting that book after a big night of drinking with FI and friends... And became a big sobbing mess withing 5 minutes...

amybw

I read the Lovely Bones a few years ago.  I do think it was a really good book, but also very depressing.  I think when i got to the end, i was reading it on the train either to or from work, with tears streaming down my face. I'm currently reading My Sister's Keeping, and i feel like the same thing might happen. I really liked the books Something Borrowed, and Something Blue, by Emily Giffin.

michirusan

A little fun fact about lovely bones:: I work at the mall where they filmed some of the scenes. Didn't meet anyone though. The actual mall only has one store (us) and we just did stock in the back on the days they were shooting.