For the record (again) I hate Alice Sebold's book The Lovely Bones. It is the Tuesdays with Morrie of horrific child-rape-homicide. "Rarely have I been so uplifted by a horrific child-rape-homicide. The last time I felt this great was watching Roberto Benigni's hilarious romantic comedy about Jews dying in concentration camps." But man, whatever you think of that book (whether ...