How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken Book

So far this is awesome. I picked it out b/c the title and cover are awesome. The first essay is about The Lovely Bones and I knew how severely he trashed the book would indicate my ability to read the rest of the book. He pretty severely trashed it, I'd say. Pointing out, (accurately, I think) that the book is NOT really about "hard issues" like rape or murder, but about being happy and overcoming grief. Essentially.. sugar coating grief. Which, sas he points out, is useless because people DO grieve when things like the events int he book happen, and it's NOT okay. Ever. He mentioned that the success of the book had more to do with the emotional state that America was in at the time (wanting to be comforted) than the actual literary merit of the book. Because, you know, it basically has none. Anyway. I could go on. But I won't. Kudos to Mendelsohn for seeing the SUCK in The Lovely Bones.