Interesting perception of the afterlife. Good story, the subject is a bit sad, and disturbing. Very touching, I remember crying a few times. I thought the book was way better than the movie.

This book was beautify wrote,i literally could not put it down from finish to end loved it!

This book shattered me. Having children, allowing your heart to go walking around on the outside of your body like that, knowing one day it may just not come home. The explosion of the family, the fathers inability to let go, the mothers need to forget, no detail felt false or anything less than devastating.

Sebold writes a beautifully tragic story that had me captivated from beginning to end. It evoked true emotion in me, which in my opinion is what makes a well written story.

Love this book! When I was first introduced to it I was in high school and not a reader. I took one look at the book and was turned off just at how big it was. Haha! Once I started it, I couldn't put it down. Thanks to this book alone, I now love to read (no matter how big the book). Years later, they came out w/a movie. I was overly excited until I watched it. It's very long and off topic, didn't keep me interested like the book.

I could not put this book down once I picked it up... It was great & sooo much better than the movie!!! Glad I read the book first!!!

This book is one of my all time favorites, it is so stunningly written, and such a personal matter. I think that the concepts of the afterlife portrayed are very fresh and different. I did not want to put this book down!

I really liked this book but thought that the part about her friend and the guy she liked having sex while she overtook her friends body was just weird. I think that the book would've been better without this. I appreciated that this was not really in the movie it just distracted me from the true point of the story.

Very good book - certainly better than the movie. Gives a good perspective on how a crime impacts so many people. I teach criminal justice and assign this book in a course I teach on victims - it is very well received by my grad students (even before the movie came out!)

I absolutly love this book.its about a girl that get raped and murdered and discribes from heaven how her family moves on and also her murder acts and tries to solve her case. The book is so interessting it keeps you reading and not wanna put it down unless you have to.

I read this book several years ago and found it to be very engrossing and next to impossible to put down. A very good read!

The book is amazing. I have seen previews for the movie and am not really sure I want to see it. It seems to be a far off interpretation of the book. Peter Jackson is a great director, but he admitted that he either omitted or glossed over several parts of the book.

I love this book.

WHAAATTT!!! WHAAAATTT! The Lovely Bones is a book!? I'm in love with the movie, it's my all-time favorite, and I can't believe that it's a book. Why was I not allerted of this! AAAAAAHHH! If the book is anything like the movie, then I must read it! I loved the movie for it's original take on the afterlife and the world that comes before it! It's amazing! I must buy it!!!!!

I REALLY LIKED THE BOOK ITS A SUBJECT THATS NOT REALLY TALKED ABOUT IN THE WAY THIS BOOK DOES. MY EMOTIONS WENT FROM SAD TO MAD SO MANY TIMES BECAUSE OF WAD HEPPENS TO THE GIRL ITS JUST ONE OF THOSE BOOKS.