If you could live forever, would you?
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Tuck Everlasting is well written, and even for being a short book, definitely worth reading.
At the beginning it starts out as a small mystery for the reader, later on turning into a short story definitely focused on showing the main characters detailed thoughts.
An interesting story with one main theme -- if you could live forever, would you?
Tuck Everlasting keeps you wondering what the characters are going to do, and if the decisions of the characters are good ones.
A must read, with a GREAT epilogue!
F.Y.I. This review was written by an eleven year old home schooler.
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I believe everyone should live their life in such a way that they could fill a book with their experiences. Randy Peeters does not disappoint. As I read his book, I spent half the time thinking, "this guy is crazy" and the other half trying to decide what goal I was going to tackle next. Peeters has an infectious way of writing that makes you believe that you can tackle any "mountain" as easy as he did. He reminds you to live your life.
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No way would I go through the rest of my life without reading this book!
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This book is very well written. Makes you think and weigh the pros and cons of long life. Delves deeply into the science and theory of why we age. Leaving you to decide for yourself, which you would prefer,  living long or short and sweet.
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The book says that the essence of each person - it is the eternal development. Everyone can live forever in the physical reality in his physical body. Then the world becomes indestructible. Hence the end of the world will not.
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If "I" could only have 3 wishes???  What would yours be?  I thought I knew what mine were before I read this book.  This story line is so intriguing of possibilities one could only wish for them to actually come true.  But as the book explains, there are people out there that only care for power and money at the expense of other peoples lives.  Reading this reminded me of all my lost loved ones and how much I miss them.  It made me cry for the not knowing of why they are gone in the first place.  Cry, because I was so mesmerized by the telling of this story that I was transported into a wish that could never be.  Or could it?
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Wonderful...Beautiful...Glorious!!!  Amazing Grace, Perfect Peace, Everlasting Life!
Jesus is the only way to eternal life in Heaven.....He has the resurrection power to life over death...Here's the Way...
Admit you are a sinner~~Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ~~Confess your sins~~Pray and ask Jesus to come into your heart~~Give Him your life!
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What if the life you have lived ended? What if you were told after "your Death" it was all a lie?
How would you feel if you were told that you were only part of a grand experiment ?
What if the love of your life refused to acknowledge you in this "afterlife"?
What if in order to survive you were given a choice to live again but with only two choices
t choose from? You will be shocked, surprised, and well pleased to see how the author
manages these dilemmas !
Read this book if only to compare your thoughts on these  questions.
Oh yeah...it has a Happy Ending/Beginning .
I did receive this book for an honest review.
Honestly if you enjoy really good Scifi with believable , in depth characters, Read this book!
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What's the price you would pay to save a loved ones life?  Would you go the black market route or stay on the waiting list, hoping that a match could be found.  An interesting read, a difficult batch of decisions to consider.
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How would your life be different if you KNEW your soul lived on? The way we think about death influences the way we live our very lives. Pat reveals her very real communication with her deceased sister, the lessons we can still learn from those who are never really gone and most importantly that LOVE NEVER DIES.  Great read!
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You'll have no choice but to ask yourself "What would my loved ones say to me from the Great Beyond?"
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Would you want to live forever, yet lose your old identity as a result? I know I wouldn't. This question basically encapsulates the premise of this science fiction thriller film where a dying old man convinces himself that in order to have greater impact in life one must live forever. In the process, I saw how this entire procedure and aftermath changed the old man's perspective on what matters most in life. It's definitely a film worth watching and remembering because of the life lessons it will instill upon you the viewer.
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What if, after your death, you could watch people on earth? Could you handle seeing your loved ones and what they are going through and see their lives go on without you? Could you just sit there and do nothing or tell no one about your killer? If you could customize your very own heaven, what would be like?

For Susie Salmon, she had to be able to handle all of this, watching her family go on without her, watch her killer, and her boyfriend. Susie's heaven is like the high school she imagined going into the next year. The air in her heaven smells faintly of earth and skunk, and every evening, friendly people and dogs sign her to sleep with beautiful music. When she wants to look back down to earth, she peers over the edge of a gazebo. From here she watches her family, her friends, and her killer.

Alice Sebold's, "The Lovely Bones" tells the story of the rape and murder of a fourteen year old girl. This dramatic story is told in the victim's voice, both from heaven and earth, her life's sudden end is merely the beginning of her new experience.

Through Susie, Sebold has created a way to express the past, present and future, and also in a way to view life from r. both the living and the dead. I was amazed of how quickly i was drawn in to the book. This is toucheing novel to readm especially if you like suspence, drama, love, and a little bit of sadness.

During the quest of Susie, she witnesses her mother wish to travel back in time to a life free of marriage and children, she watches her father struggle to maintain and hold the family together. She sees her younger sister, Lindsey live with the label, "the dead girl's sister" and experience all the feelings she has, including watching her have a boyfriend. She watches her three year old brother not realize what "dead" really means, and him stick to his fathers side no matter what. She laughs while her crazy grandmother, attempts to cheer the family with her. Susie also watches her used-to-be boyfriend, with whom she shared only a single kiss. And last, the killer. She watches him, too, while he tries to cover up any evidence he might have left behind.

This novel may should depressing as of right now, but the depressing subject matter has a twist by Susie's once-in-a-life-time ability to "jump into" a girls soul and feel how she feels. She feels joy when she is remembered fondly, and she gets to feel every butterfly and tingle when her sister falls in love. Susie sometimes is seen on earth through small objects by her family and friends.

I would recommend, "The Lovely Bones" to anyone. The characters range from young to old, from good to evil and from heaven and earth.
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I needed this. I loved this movie.
 Live as if you were to die tomorrow." applies to all of us that are terminally ill, by choice or not.
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Interesting concept of trying to stay forever young and immortal.  Mostly loved the characters, even the bad ones because there's always someone who tries to inhibit medical progress in the name of religion or just plain greed.
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If only we could all live our life as this. Forever in the service of our fellow man. The world would be a better place.
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This book would be perfect for book clubs.  I think there'd be a great discussion centered around the question of whether you'd be willing to get a new body (your own body, granted, but still) if it meant that you'd lose important aspects of yourself.  Yes, it'd be wonderful to be healthy again (even without the added benefit of being beautiful) but would you be as excited about it if you lost the thing that made you special?

There are also the political questions (is it okay to clone people? How do you decide who gets a second chance at life and who has to remain paralyzed or die of cancer?).

And Again is full of the "What would I do in this situation?" questions.  And the answers aren't easy, either.

I wish I had gotten more of an understanding of the four main characters but I wonder if Jessica Chiarella wasn't deliberately trying to keep them as broad strokes so that the reader could more easily see themselves in each potential situation.

Recommended.