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Originally Posted by Nicholas S. Folsom
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
I really, really hope this is done WELL by Peter Jackson, his wife Fran Walsh and Phillipa Boyens. This is one of the most beautiful books ever written. By that I mean about the afterlife... Simply amazing. My eyes tear at the thought of it.
"These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections — sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent — that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life." – Susie, page 320.
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really hope Peter Jackson, Walsh and Bowens don't screw this up.
For me, since Fight Club was done so well by all involved, my next Chuck Palahniuk choice would be Survivor. I don't know what it is about a jet airliner speeding towards the Austrailan outback while the protagonist tells his story in flashbacks just appeals to me.
I don't get nor do I understand Diary. Do I? ....No. Third I'd gladly take Invisible Monsters. I'm guessing some badass CGI would be needed to pull off whats her name's lower jaw being shot off. (or was it a bird crashing in to her half-rolled down car window destroying her lower jaw?) Anyway, that's pretty gruesome but pure Chuck Palahniuk. Isn't Invisible Monsters told via flashbacks as well...? One character, whilst wearing a wedding dress, pointing a shotgun at another while the house they occupy is burning to the ground. Do I senese a theme here?