The Lovely Bones--who read this? - Page 2

[GranoLLLy-girl]

Originally Posted by kama'aina mama

My lover and I try to see everything that is nominated for an Academy Award, so I watched it to see Stanley Tucci's performance. Probably silly, I know.

Probably not so silly--especially if there is hope that the movie will be better.
I thought that about Bridges of Madison County. The book was totally predicatble--but oh Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood together--I thought that was fantastic--and it was the one rare case (to me) where the movie was a million times better than the book--who would have thought?

So far, I've not seen any Oscar nominated/winning films. I hope to catch them eventually. But Stanley T. was really great in the Julie/Julie (or whatever it was) movie--I'm a Streep fan, so I had to rent that one!

[Sarah W]

Originally Posted by ollyoxenfree

I kind of liked the fact that she didn't resolve things neatly like a typical murder mystery. Lots of people go missing every year, and their families never get answers. I admired the author for not taking an easy road to a tidy resolution ie. murderer gets caught, family gets closure. I don't think the author wanted to write a book about "closure". It seems to me her whole theme was that a new form/life has to be created when one is abruptly destroyed. Everyone has to find a way to fill in or move around the hole that's created when someone goes missing and they have to manage to keep on going somehow. I think there's a powerful message in the book that is much more meaningful because she didn't opt for the easy, tidy, typical ending.

I completely agree with this.

I thought the book was great. It wasn't a happy, feel good book but I thought it was well written.

Like several others mentioned, I don't get the part where she took over Ruth's body to have sex. It just seemed so weird and didn't fit in with the rest of the book.

[Viola]

Originally Posted by GranoLLLy-girl

So what were your thoughts on the whole Susie takes over Ruth's body and makes love to Ray? I don't know about that whole thing--why didn't she say: hey, my body is in the sinkhole?

I just thought it was stupid. The book annoyed me, so I gave it away. Her spirit gets to come down and inhabit another body and that's what she does? It just seemed inane, and not at all what I wanted to have happen.