Alexandra Bogdanovic's Blog: That's life... - Posts Tagged "buzz"

I don't know about you, but when it comes to books, hype means nothing to me. In fact, the more buzz a book gets, the less likely I am to read it.
Take The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, for instance. According to the blurb on the back cover, it was "the most talked-about book of 2006." The critics loved it and the book won a bunch of awards. As we all know, it even became a movie.
But as I said, none of that really matters to me. So truthfully, I didn't have much interest in reading the book when my mom found a paperback edition in the free book swap at our local dump last year. I tossed it into a cardboard box with the rest of the books I planned on getting around to reading sooner or later -- and kept shuffling it to the bottom of the pile -- until recently.
As of now, I'm on page 223, and I'll probably read some more before bed. The story is phenomenal. The writing is brilliant. Death as the narrator? Genius.
In other words,The Book Thief definitely earned its hype.
But as for the rest -- let me be the judge.
Until next time, "That's life..."