# Books like the movie "The Others"

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**Created:** [July 23, 2002, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-like-the-movie-the-others/120419 "2002-07-23T18:28:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![gruven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a9a28c/32.png) [@gruven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gruven)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-like-the-movie-the-others/120419/1 "2002-07-23T18:28:56Z")

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Anyone know any books along the lines of the movie “The Others”? Specifically, something written from the point of view of a ghost among the living.

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-like-the-movie-the-others/120419/2 "2002-07-23T18:35:43Z")

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_spoiler_ (hey, you should put one of those in the thread title)  
There’s a book called “The Other” by Tom Tryon that was made into a film in the 1970s. It’s not from the POV of the ghost, exactly, more of a split personality, but one of the “personalities” is the boy’s dead twin brother.

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**Author:** ![gruven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a9a28c/32.png) [@gruven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gruven)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-like-the-movie-the-others/120419/3 "2002-07-23T18:46:49Z")

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Yes, you’re right. I saw that movie so long ago that I never even thought of that as a spoiler.

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-like-the-movie-the-others/120419/4 "2002-07-23T19:04:02Z")

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How would a short story strike you? It’s from the POV of a ghost who explains why she committed suicide, and what she does now. [http://www.geocities.com/theevilwriter/post.html](http://www.geocities.com/theevilwriter/post.html) I think I write better than I did then (Sophomore in college) but I still like this story 🙂

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**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-like-the-movie-the-others/120419/5 "2002-07-23T20:01:08Z")

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I thought this one looked interesting:

[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316666343/qid=1027454131/sr=8-1/ref=sr\_8\_1/102-2309204-4334542](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316666343/qid=1027454131/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-2309204-4334542)

“Alice Sebold’s haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, _The Lovely Bones_, unfolds from heaven, where “life is a perpetual yesterday” and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case.” – review from [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com)