THE LOVELY BONES- peter jackson (lotr) is making it, is anyone else a bit upset about this?

[lissielou]

i LOVED the book read it 4 times on honeymoon and cried each time, now jackson is close to announcing cast im a bit worried. how will he handle the more delicate scenes without it being icky, how will he handle suzys narrative, the intricacies of the relationships. will he botch one of my fave books of all time?

lol expat.

I hope the film of TLB is better than the book is all I'm saying!

Jaysus I wouldn't go to see it. I think I loved the book, certainly cried all the way through, but don't ever want to read it again and kind of wish I could unread it.
And Daniel Radcliffe my arse, why are all these British actors being suggested? The book's Americanness is a big part of its character I think, the horror of the neighbourhood nutjob forcing the suburbian American dream to look beneath the surface.

Loved the book, cried. Can't imagine it as a film

I started the lovely bones full of expectations, but in the end I didn't like it that much. However I'm sure that PJ will do a good job. Afterall, I think he handled the most delicate scenes in Heavenly creatures pretty well.

im glad that i read it, and every time i read it its as if ive never read it before

God that book?
I found it so disturbing I could not get passed the first chapter or two.

Why do people love it so?

The thought of it being a film is too... shudder?

I suppose Love is the wrong word

i think the premise is just uncomfortable, when you get past the rape and murder it becomes a book about the family and how they cope with susies "ghost" in the background

Elliehsmum wasnt a criticism, just seems that it is very popular?

ima i found the 1st few chapters v uncomfortable but as time goes on for the town, her family and her friends i found it more .... beautiful (if thats the right word) and watching such a strong real family implode was devestating

I Know Mrsnoah,after reading your post I thought love was an odd word to describe such a book.

The line from the book that always stuck in my head was the "pestle and mortar." And it didn't stick in a good way. Haunted more like.

If they do it right they could also show that rape and murder is not just an attack on one person. Perhaps make people who don't already do so, take it more seriously (I'm thinking in terms of the amount of rapes reported/convictions etc. No one sees the human side which this book captured chillingly.)

you read it on HONEYMOON. 4 x! I read it one night (all thru the night) before having kids. oh the days! don't think i could watch it as a movie. the book was haunting enough...

I think as I have daughters and a too vivid imagination I found it too graphic.
I am obviously a complete wimp.

the line that stuck for me was "gently i did, the end came anyway". it brings a lump to my throat

No, shit, mrsnorah.

I just thought, 'Isn't there enough of this in the world? Can't we use our imagination to consider what happens to the families of the victims? Who needs more of this as fiction??'

FSG.

It's like the Coldplay of fiction.

I'd like to send her a bottle of arsenic and ask her to spare the rest of us.

i just thought it was completely emotionally manipulative and largely without literary merit. couldn't believe it, as everyone i knew had recommended it to me and said they'd been really touched by it... didn't cry once and thought the sex scene was stoopid as i recall.
it was a short story, at best, that she somehow wrung a novel out of... maybe it'll be a better film for that, mind you.

that's harsh, aitch! though i do agree with the sex scene being pants, and thought she lost it a bit at the end.

i think she (the writer) was raped herself, so I guess there's loads of cathartic stuff in the book and therefore it IS powerful, particularly knowing where she is coming from.

That was a pants sex scene, especially w/the build up to it.

You know that old saying, 'Either give them the best sex they ever had or no sex at all'?

It's a good rule of thumb in writing, too.

For a touching love scene, 'Cold Mountain' has it all over Bones.

The book, not that rubbish film.

I am ROFL @ Hunker.

Can you just hear Renee's voice over?

That twee voice.

ARrrrrrrrrrggghh.

I'd rather be strapped down and forced to listen to Margaret Thatcher speeches.

I found the book very traumatic to read and infact was just beginning to be able to put it firmly behind me until I read this thread.

Thanks everyone......

Just don't mention Sophie's Choice as I will fall apart completely.

I read it before I even had children and it put me right off.