The Lovely Bones is a 2008 fiction novel with 329 pages by Alice Sebold , it is also a 2009 drama and thriller film that is two hours and fifteen minutes long. Both the movie and the book are beautiful yet chilling stories. They 're about a girl named Susie Salmon who was murdered when she was fourteen on december 6th of 1973. I like how in both versions they wrap it up without any loose ends; the story comes full circle. The massage i feel they give is everything happens for a reason even if you don 't understand that reason right away. I recommend both tear jerking perceptions of the story but for more detail and understanding i suggest to read a book first. Each tell the story astonishingly but the book tells it in more detail than the …show more content…
A few examples of this are Susie 's murder. In the movie she is lured in and murdered but it does not show or explain it where in the book she is lured in the same but then in detail it described how she was raped and murdered and disposed of. Another would be Ray and Ruth. In the book and movie Ray is Susie 's first and only love interest and in the book Susie inhabits Ruth 's body and has intercourse with Ray then tries to contact her family while Ruth is up with the murdered women she saw , in the movie they only kiss and Ray is the only one she tries to reach. Some small difference would be how the order is different things that happen early in the movie aren 't discussed till later in the book. The affair abigail has left out in the movie as well as franny, holly and susie in heaven mother figure. It is obvious that they are the same story told differently. The lovely bones Is a devastatingly beautiful story each way it 's told. It 's the rawest way i 've seen the message everything happens for a reason put out in the world. Both the movie and the book have put me in a very emotional state. First the book then the movie is the order i found makes more sense. I recommend them both for