The Lovely Bones is why I don’t have a girlfriend right now.
Well… we’ll get to that eventually.
I finished reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold yesterday, and then tonight I went ahead and watched the movie that Peter Jackson made out of it. I don’t know whether anyone else who visits this site has read or watched it as well, but for no better reason than to kill a little time I will break down my particular opinions of them both for you.
On my most recent flight into Vegas I was seated next to a woman who I noticed to be reading the final few pages of The Lovely Bones. At the time, I knew of the book only because of the movie trailers that seemed to run during every single commercial break around Christmas. The trailers made the movie look pretty interesting and when I asked this woman if she liked the book she gave me a short, but extremely enthusiastic dose of praise. I think her exact words may have been, “Oh my God! I LOVE IT!”
Having just been given a Kindle for Christmas (thanks!) I decided to hop onto Amazon’s 3G network and download the book while waiting for our plane to takeoff.
Ok, I don’t want to spoil anything for those of you who still plan on reading the book or watching the movie. Come back when you are done and let me know your thoughts, but for everyone else you can click on the following link to read the rest of this post…