Yes, Frederick, I have.
Picked it up used at my local library's sale bin.
Was taken up by the discorporate voice, its
serious desperation. Its beauty and damnation
did actually convey me to a "place" where heaven
and hell seemed to coexist, a place where it was
hard for me to tell the difference between the
living and the dead. Also, has often made me
think (almost aloud) when I see some people:
Are these people only ghosts, wholly or partial.
And if they are, what does that make me... the
onlooker? These are themes I've been most
concerned with for over a decade, so the book further engendered my
interest.
Also gave me the place, suspending my
"certain disbeliefs" (at least for a little while),
to ask other questions: Why we're here. The
reality. The tricks of the mind. Are we here
because we want to be-- or because, like that
little girl, we're being held against our will.
Yes, this may have been one where all got it
right. Or at least nearly.
Thank you for bringing it to discussion.
Cheers,
Jerry
Only Others Are
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> I wonder if anyone's read Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones? It was a
> bestseller in US, a Book-of-the-Month-Club selection. I seldom read
> anything most people are reading and am horrified to say that in this
> case everyone was right. Extremely upsetting, worthwhile, discussable
> book - though again, many people see its vision as "cheap" or too
> inconclusive. This last poem was part of its emotional backwash.
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