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Rating:  - It Earns The Hype
I know some people who did not get past the first 70 pages or so, and I can see why: at first there is a seeming dispassion about the narrative voice and the tension builds slowly at first. It gains momentum and pulls you in, however, to the point that you will stay up long past a reasonable bedtime on a weekday night to see it through to the end. And if you are the least bit prone to reacting to a book emotionally, well, you will be reacting. It crosses age and gender barriers in its appeal. It is easy to see why it continues to float on the bestseller list.What slowed me down at first was what I thought was its singular plot line; then I realized that each character forms his/her own subplot and their individual projectiles weave about the story like so many contrails streaking and crossing around the sky. Sebold is to be commended for the risks she takes in an age when few take artistic risks in literary and popular fiction. If some don't like her choices, well tough, she was courageous to try and I like that. Her biggest risk was to find life affirmation amidst the tragedy-a 14-year-old disappears, the victim of rape and a gruesome murder, her body never found-without undercutting the undeniable changes it wreaks in the lives of those left living and the sadness of a life frozen at age 14. The balance she strikes is remarkable.
Rating:  - This book gives maudlin a new definition!
Geez - what a book. The only reason I finished it was it was selected by a book club I belong to. What a piece of slop! And the point of it was_____? You tell me. Move over Jonathan Edward, Alice Sebold is leaving you in her wake....What a pointless exercise.
Rating: - Depressing with no merit
I hardly ever dislike books this strongly, but I absolutely hated this book. In fact, my entire book group disliked it as well. I have tried to figure out why this book is popular but cannot find a reason. It is depressing, parts of it are ridiculous, it is slow moving, and disturbing. The concept could be interesting in the hands of a more talented writer, but in the hands of this writer it ends up being completely unsatisfying.
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