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  by rdurren2 & 3 users

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Alice Sebold

2007-06-20

  by julzddm & 10 users

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: own

2005-09-23

  by amourbella & 10 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Alice Sebold

2005-10-28

  by anjamu & 10 users

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: memoir youth rape

2006-01-06

  by jaimie & 10 users

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Alice Sebold

2006-01-07

  by hotpinkumbrellas & 10 users

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Alice Sebold

2006-04-02

  by jmhender & 10 users

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Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Author: Alice Sebold

2006-06-28

  by halfspeedbrain & 10 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Alice Sebold

2008-06-12

  by julzddm & 4 users

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: own

2007-08-25

  by emobarbiee & 4 users

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Type: fiction

Status: neutral

Author: Alice Sebold

Description: not nearly as good as her other novels.

2009-10-30

  by moreadventurous & 4 users

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Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Author: Alice Sebold

Description: Waste of my life. Crap writing. I should have gave up on Sebold after reading Lovely Bones,Waste of my life. Crap writing. I should have gave up on Sebold after reading Lovely Bones, cheap melodrama, poor characterization, redundant word usage....

2009-08-02

  by frightfulweather & 24 users

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Alice Sebold

2006-11-14

  by kate & 24 users

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Alice Sebold

2005-11-24

  by andra & 24 users

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Type: fiction

Status: liked

Author: Alice Sebold

2005-11-15

  by krayzee & 24 users

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: supernatural

Description: A 14 years old girl has been raped and murdered and now she watches from heaven the way herA 14 years old girl has been raped and murdered and now she watches from heaven the way her family is coping with her loss...

2006-08-28

  by faerial & 24 users

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Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Author: Alice Sebold

2006-01-24

  by webmiztris & 24 users

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Alice Sebold

2006-01-28

  by flora2324 & 24 users

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Type: fiction

Status: favorite

Author: Alice Sebold

Description: Moving tale about a life recounted from beyond the grave.

2006-04-06

  by cydonia & 24 users

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Type: fiction

Status: liked

Author: Alice Sebold

2006-07-13

  by vmusselm & 24 users

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Alice Sebold

Description: on loan from Mary E.

2006-08-12

  by jens92 & 24 users

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Type: fiction

Status: neutral

Author: Alice Sebold

2006-08-13

  by kiddeternity & 24 users

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Alice Sebold

2006-11-30

  by zander & 24 users

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Type: fiction

Status: now reading

Author: Alice Sebold

Description: January 2007

2007-01-29

  by oddish & 24 users

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Type: fiction

Status: liked

Author: Alice Sebold

2007-12-21

  by radioactivered & 24 users

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: crime sad

2008-02-12

  by iloveputwessy & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: favorite

Author: Alice Sebold

2005-09-02

  by henryflower & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Alice Sebold

2005-09-03

  by noelani & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: liked

Author: Alice Sebold

2005-09-11

  by khogue & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Alice Sebold

2005-09-16

  by purplejack & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: crime society

2005-10-05

  by julzddm & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: liked

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: own

2005-09-23

  by joany & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: death awsome

2006-02-14

  by smccabe & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Alice Sebold

2005-09-22

  by ditty1013 & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: mystery murder

Description: A fresh, if heartbreaking, perspective.

2005-10-04

  by tcgoetz & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: crime

Description: Told from the point of view of the deceased main character, this book addresses an aspect ofTold from the point of view of the deceased main character, this book addresses an aspect of loss and isolation that isn't generally looked at when rape and murder are involved... that of the victim and their attempt to make a final connection. Great description of what heaven is (at least for this girl)...

2005-10-07

  by krin5292 & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Alice Sebold

2005-10-19

  by infinitedrag & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Author: Alice Sebold

2005-10-18

  by amourbella & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Alice Sebold

2005-10-28

  by dre & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: murder

2005-11-05

  by entropy & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: crime social

2005-11-12

  by lisa211 & 78 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: literary united_states world_literature 50_2006

Description: I wasn't really aware on what is the fuss all about when this book came out. I thoughtI wasn't really aware on what is the fuss all about when this book came out. I thought it would be just another chicklit so I should just avoid it like a plague. A couple of years later, I have stumbled onto this book once again and reread the reviews given by my friends. A nudge inside me told me I should just try reading it to see what's the hype was all about.

And I did!

Boy, I was wrong in all places about this book. The first page drew me in and I can't put the book down until I've finished it!

It's a haunting tale of the 14 year old, Susie Salmon (yes, like the fish), who narrated the tale of her life, her family and friends. She was murdered and raped in the late 1973 and now residing in her heaven. She watched in bitterness as life goes on down below back on Earth. She watched the effects of her death upon the living. How her friends came together and become closed with her family. How the obsession of looking for her killer also destroy her parents' marriage. She even watched her murderer goes on with his lifes and met his other victims in heaven.

This is not the tale of the tale of her death, which in turn not a detective story. But it's like watching a Hallmark movie (now that's an idea) revealing in the pages of your hands. It's more about loss, coping and affirming life after the death of a love one. Not just for the ones Susie left on earth, but also for herself in heaven. I have a problem about lose ends in this novel though. I can't state it here due to spoilers....

2006-02-07

  by lady & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Alice Sebold

2006-03-09

  by joodydoody & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Alice Sebold

2005-12-27

  by amimolko & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Alice Sebold

Description: Finished 06/15/07

2007-06-06

  by anjamu & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: murder spiritual youth redemption

2006-01-06

  by jaimie & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: own

2006-01-07

  by estanfill & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: mystery murder spiritual

2006-01-17

  by wanderlust & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: on hold

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: fiction unfinished

Description: When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. This was before milkWhen we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. This was before milk carton photos and public service announcements, she tells us; back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared, people still believed these things didnt happen. In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death, and her own adjustment to the strange new place she finds herself. (It looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swingset.) With love, longing, and a growing understanding, Susie watches her family as they cope with their griefher father embarks on a search for the killer, her sister undertakes a feat of amazing daring, her little brother builds a fort in her honorand begin the difficult process of healing. In the hands of a brilliant new novelist, and through the eyes of her winning young heroine, this story of seemingly unbearable tragedy is transformed into a suspenseful, touching, even funny novel about family, memory, love, heaven, and living....

2006-02-12

  by arishia & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: fiction mystery

2006-01-23

  by danamae & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Alice Sebold

2006-03-07

  by jbergman & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Alice Sebold

2006-03-28

  by tunafish & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: depressing

2006-03-27

  by emobarbiee & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: favorite

Author: Alice Sebold

2006-03-30

  by hotpinkumbrellas & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Alice Sebold

2006-04-02

  by caydi & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Alice Sebold

2006-04-12

  by yzie & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: favorite

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: women fiction religion crime

2006-05-02

  by beverlyinsc & 78 users

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Alice Sebold

2006-05-16

  by ohinternet & 78 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Alice Sebold

Tags: buyyyyyyy

2006-05-20

  by staphylococcus & 78 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: now reading

Author: Alice Sebold

2006-06-01

  by mitzimoo11 & 78 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Alice Sebold

2006-06-02