did anyone else buy 'The Almost Moon' with the times yesterday?

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By Alice Sebold (she of lovely bones fame)

I bought a copy last week.

Have you started it yet?

Yes - I'm a quick reader so finished it at the weekend. I quite liked it.

I bought it for dp when it first came out. I thought it was absolutely rubbish, though I really liked "The Lovely Bones".

I'm not sure what I think of it.
In places it makes me quite uncomfortable, but so did The Lovely Bones.

I started it last week but skipped most of it, so read the first and last chapters.

Loved ' The Lovely Bones' but, to be honest, thought this was a bit boring.

I've got about two thirds of the way through. It's not pulling me to finish it like most books but I feel like I have to in the same morbid way people rubberneck at car crashes.

I just found it hard work! I enjoyed the 'lovely bones' in that it was uncomfortable reading but a fascinating take on things, IYKWIM.

I felt, with this book, she was trying to be the Madonna of her genre - trying a bit too hard to shock.

Was glad to finish it tbh.

I loved the lovely bones, except the whole spiritual sex bit, that was weird and too far, I felt. This whole book feels the same as that part to me.

And...

Although she manages to show just how very fucked-up every character in the book is (!), I didn't think she really justified or made sense of why she actually killed her mother.

Perhaps we are meant to be left feeling frustrated by the sheer futility of it?!

I was very disappointed, though I did romp through it. There was none of the 'finding beauty in shitty circs' which I felt shone through in Lovely Bones.
I got the whole mother/daughter love/hate thing, but man, she was a fucked-up lady!

Yes the sex scene in TLB was ridiculous; a big flaw in an otherwise really good book.

[cry] I never knew it was in yesterday's paper. I want this book. I have read The Lovely Bones. I have Lucky on my TBR pile as well.

It is really not a patch on the Lovely Bones.

I liked Lucky less, and this one far less.

Actually - does anyone actually enjoy reading Alice Sebold???

I have only read 1 of hers. So it will be interesting to read the other 2 as well.

nuttymum - email VS and she will send oyu the book when she finished. do you have her email?

fan-fkn-tastic at hotmail dot co dot uk

i do have her permission btw

Thanks sweetie, will email her asap.

Which book am I asking for again lol? I have read The Lovely Bones. I have Lucky on my TBR list. Which means I would be asking for The Almost Moon?

had to cook tea while reading 'Lovely Bones' just so i didn't go to far in to the book...started to bother me slightly !, i thought it was a good book though. Bought Almost Moon, read firts page and put it down, is it any good ???, what is is about?, x Thanks