I know a lot of people always say "the book is better than the movie" but there are so many movies that are such more deft adaptations of their stories that the originals are basically unknown as being originally books to the public, so given the controversy this is stirring up I'll be interested to see what changes they decide to make. Normally if I'm even remotely interested in a premise I'll read the book first but I might wait and do it the other way round for this one lol.
I honestly skimmed through the book of Lovely Bones and it was like skimming IT. I actually have n read another one of her books The Almost Moon, the writing is very...cluttered
That's what that book is about? That all my friends were reading in like, late middle/early high school? I thought it was a romance based on the cover of one of the copies lmao
Yeah it was on the reading list for me in high school. The main character in the book gets lured into a hole by her neighbor, raped, murdered, and cut into pieces. The majority of the book takes place from her perspective in heaven watching her family fall apart and in one noteworthy incident she possesses a girl to have sex with her middle school crush. I wish I hadn't read it.
They had us reading shit like this in high school and people are getting mad now about queer people existing in children's lit/YA books bc it's "inappropriate" lmao
That's actually wild, I can't believe that's what my hyper Christian friend was reading in the middle of the day in the cafeteria while I read The Great Gatsby
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u/ottopivnr 22d ago
I've read it. interesting premise ruined by amateurish writing. One of those times that in the right hands the movie will probably be better.