Title: good advice for girls, but not literature
Product review: This is a very disappointing book. The disappointment, for me, came from the fact that the subject so important and touching, as the bestial murder of a child and grief of the family, should be presented in equally moving manner. Even if the narrator is the child victim, which, obviously, necessitates some simplifications of the prose. Instead, Sebold's novel is formally conventional, very boring and predictable. I can understand its being a recommended reading for schoolchildren, because it can be a warning and fulfills the educational purposes, maybe getting to the adolescent child better than pamphlets and science, but if you are not a teenager and/or are looking for something else that a warning in a book, this would be a waste of time.
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