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Movies and the Books They Were Based On: The Lovely Bones61

Movies and the Books They Were Based On: The Lovely Bones

The following is the first in a series of reviews; Movies and the Books They Were Based on.

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The Lovely Bones58

The Lovely Bones

Long before the movie came out, I was handed a book called The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I had neither heard of the author nor the book itself. This was a few years ago. When the book starts out with a young girl talking about how she was...

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Great Books, Good Books57

Great Books, Good Books

By Stephen King's standards it may be peanuts, by my standards it's highly satisfactory, an intellectual year where I went from one novel to the next. I read 24 novels that says a lot. It was 2010, a turbulent year as far...

2 comments    reading english london
Lucky: A Memoir - Book Review62

Lucky: A Memoir - Book Review

Lucky: A Memoir by Alice Sebold captures the horror she went through while attending Syracuse University in 1980. After leaving a friend's house on campus, Alice is raped before she can even reach her dorm room. The assailant is tall and blank,...

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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - A High School Essay in an Exam70

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - A High School Essay in an Exam

This is one of the essay questions I was asked in an exam and below I have included how such a question could be answered. Pleas note that this work is my own and if you wish to use this as a reference, please just let me know. This paper has...

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Addiction, Insanity & Polygamy: The 10 Best Memoirs74

Addiction, Insanity & Polygamy: The 10 Best Memoirs

I'm an avid reader, and one of my favourite genres is memoirs and biographies. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love fiction, and most of my favourite books are fiction, but there is just something about reading someone's personal story, and...

2 comments    love books depression
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold59

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

14 year old Susie gets murdered, but this book is not your usual murder mystery, eager to lead you down the garden path in order to discover who the murder was. The whole event is seen through Susie's eyes,...

3 comments    novel book review murderer
How A Book Rekindled My Relationship59

How A Book Rekindled My Relationship

Sister's relationship rekindles while reading "Lonely Bones" by Alice Sebold.

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The Lovely Bones Movie69

The Lovely Bones Movie

First and foremost I would like to say that I read the book The lovely Bones a couple of years ago and found it to be heart wrenching and an amazing masterpiece of a story. The book is about a young 14 year old girl who is murdered by a creepy...

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Secondhand Reviews: "The Lovely Bones"73

Secondhand Reviews: "The Lovely Bones"

Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones" is one of those novels that presents formidable obstacles to movie makers daring enough to try to adapt it to film... much of its effect achieved as much through the poetry of...

3 comments    movie reviews peter jackson
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