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Horrified. Mystified. That’s how this book left me.
“Our heartache poured into one another like water from cup to cup. Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun: it cannot be contained.”
On its face, it’s a pretty passage. But the metaphors are so overdone in five sentences. And this is also where the story hops genr ...more
“Our heartache poured into one another like water from cup to cup. Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun: it cannot be contained.”
On its face, it’s a pretty passage. But the metaphors are so overdone in five sentences. And this is also where the story hops genr ...more
I read this book when it came out in 2002, and found that many times I had to set the book down because it felt so sad or the evil embodied by pedophile neighbor Mr. Harvey just seemed all too real. I can still picture where I was when I read this. The story begins immediately with POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT the death of Susie Salmon who, cutting through a field on her way home one cold afternoon, is lured into Mr. Harvey's den of evil. The remaining members of fourteen-year-old Susie's family (moth
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I really enjoyed this touching and powerful book. I appreciated the author's ability to connect the reader with Susie, the victim of a horrific crime committed by a very evil man. I enjoyed experiencing Susie's thoughts from her vantage point in the afterlife. I also appreciated the fact that the author discussed the ways in such a devastating incident disrupts the family of the victim. I simply can't think of much to say without giving away things that the reader should discover for themselves,
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This wasn’t at all what I was expecting. It was full of rambling, jumped from one place in time to another with no warning, and was basically plotless. I kept waiting for things to connect, for there to be a reason for the things happening, but it never came.
If you want to read about the different ways people handle grief in a novel form, then you’d probably enjoy this.
If you want to read about the different ways people handle grief in a novel form, then you’d probably enjoy this.
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