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Peter Jackson has been hard at work on his adaptation of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, which has sold over 10 million copies since it was published in 2002, making it the Tuesdays with Morrie of horrific rape-murder. The Lovely Bones takes place in the 1970s, and tells the story of a family’s dissolution and recovery in the wake of a teenage daughter’s death, told through the eyes of the murdered girl, who exists somewhere between heaven and Earth. Today, a first image of Jackson’s “heaven” has been circulating on the internet. As he explains, it was important to stick to Sebold’s vision, and to avoid giving some kind of definitive picture of what the afterlife (which may or may not exist, according to some scientists) looks like. From Stuff.co.nz:
Jackson told USA Today he had stuck to Sebold’s idea that Susie was caught between heaven and Earth.
“We certainly had no intention of using this movie to paint a definitive picture of what heaven is like, and who resides there,” he said.
“She [Susie] is in an ‘in-between’, as Alice Sebold calls it. We wanted the world to be ruled by Susie’s unconscious desires. Susie’s ‘in-between’ begins as a powerful, beautiful and mysterious place it is familiar and strange, comforting and sad. A young 14-year-old girl’s idea of ‘heaven’.
So, how did he do?
“All we have to decide is how to completely waste the time that is given to us.”
–Mr. Gandalf
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god i fucking hate that book
It was a beautifully written book. I don’t understnad why people are hating on it so much
worst book of all time.
ever.
I wish this book had never come to me.
Thank god I’m not the only one that hated that shit. What a horribly offensive piece of trash. SPOILER ALERT…Oh I’m going to be raped and murdered to then come back to Earth for one day. Do I visit my family? Of course not. What do I do? I have sex… WHAT?!?!
Is it wrong that I LOLed when I read your plot synopsis? I suddenly envisioned the scene in the book where the parents break the bad news about their daughter’s death to their family and friends.
“Guys, you’ll never believe who got raped and murdered?”
“It wasn’t Susie was it?”
The ‘on the nose’ gesture is made. Cue three hundred pages of Lifetime material.
The Lovely Bones: Now officially disapproved of by Videogummers.
Alternately, The Lonely Bones: 10 million people can be wrong.
That image is giggle fuel.
I read it because my best friend swore it was an amazing book.
It was not amazing, I was lied to. Also, it was damn creepy at times.
I don’t know guys. I find it reassuring to know that when I’m murdered (definitely going to happen) I’ll be able to avenge my death by making an icicle fall. Also, I’ll get to come back and totally get fuuuuuuuuucked.
I love the internet because I can come to places like Videogum where people agree with me. I remember getting this book as a present from my friend when it first came out, so I read it and hated every second of it. I only finished it out of guilt. Yuck.
the saddest part: we’ve all read it.
who wins here?
no one.
that’s who.
Try reading Alice Sebold’s followup – The Almost Moon. It is even worse…
Yes! It WAS worse! Why did we read it, when we knew The Lovely Bones was so disturbing and bad? Hunt for the Worst Alice Sebold Book Of All Time?
I gave it to my mom for mother’s day. I DIDN’T KNOW. AHHHHH!
I win because I haven’t read it!
You should all be ashamed of yourselves, in fact. You should know that the masses have no taste, especially when it comes to reading (or as they call it, book-learnin’).
Alice Sebolds pockets wins thats who.
I didn’t read it, because I judged it by its cover and I hate charm bracelets.
peter jackson is the lovely bones of filmakers.
I’ve read it TWICE. Once when it first came out, and once when I was stuck overnight in a hospital waiting room with nothing else to read. So I will take this opportunity to announce that I am the winner here. Or the loser. The winningest loser.
There’s no way to say this without seeming like I’m being contrary or sarcastic or timid but:
Hey, i liked that book!
It’s official…you all have wasted too much time reading crap. That’s why we have TV. If your watching something that’s crap, you can change the channel. What can you do with a book?! Flip a page? Oh look, the next page is crap too.
this person shouldnt even be an author.. how do u get raped come back and have sex again… the character development was god awful and the plot was just ridiculous im boycotting this guy for now on…
So everyone on this site hated that book…
Can anyone recommend anything worth reading besides The Guide to Snarky Hatin’?
Snarky Hatin for Dummies.
Game. Set. Match : Bad tings ah gwan
try airships by barry hannah!
Have you heard of “Fight Club”? I haven’t read it, but I heard it wasn’t about 4H.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies co-authored by Seth Grahame-Smith
(“Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!”)
Yeah, I liked this book. So, YOU guys are the sheeple.
I didn’t hate it so much as you guys, but certainly not great. Definitely not terrible, but just not great.
i really liked it.
i stayed up absurdly late to finish it and cried my face off at the ending.
i don’t remember having any problems with it.
though my heart is real and is NOT a tiny sad lump of coal.
also, my husband worked on this movie and it looked good, though it was still pretty rough at that point.
i’ve read it. it was terrible just dragged and dragged on at the end.
I don’t trust an author who would name their protagonist, “Susie Salmon”.
Clouds. Innovative.
10 million people are almost certainly wrong.
I had to read this as an assignment for my AP Lit class four years ago. ???
I’m studying this for an assignment, and the worst thing is, EVERYONE else in the class adores it.