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April 30, 2004
The Lovely Bones
I'm going to start a book blog soon, interested persons to be part of a book-loving/sharing community please drop a note and I will add you in.
In the meantime, I shall talk about The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold which I had finished some weeks ago but never sat down to write about it. It bore more emotional than literary significance for me.
I think the premise of the book was interesting and the writing farely acceptable. Makes for a good light readable endeavour. Unfortunately, the story which started off strong ended really weak and I felt really dissatisfied after it. Oh well, mayb Hey Nostradamus! which works on rather similar premises (at least from where I'm at) might fare better.
However, the story worked for me too because I've always seen myself as the victim by being the survivor of death, the leftover product of death. I've shut some doors in my life in an attempt to move on, perhaps I shall look at things from the other realm of things. Frankly though, I do think the living's perspective of death is usually skewed towards a perspective that can derive comfort. We talk about death, we mourn, we grieve - all for ourselves.
Dying is for the living.
The dead...moves on.
Do they? Do they not? I would like to think they have moved on. It might be easier for the living to move on if they don't hang on like that.
I, for one, do not like hanging on.
Addendum: Ranty ranty me. Sorry for an incoherent post on a book :) I would say go read this book for a fast read, but don't expect to be blown away by good writing or a tight plot.
Posted by lainey at April 30, 2004 02:50 PM