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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Start date: February 1, 2014

Finish date: March 3, 2014

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Oct 08, 2013 Holly rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, feels-feels-everywhere, made-me-cry, amazingly-wonderful, inspirational, so-much-uniqueness, bff-goodness, get-rec-d

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My Review!
I. I don't even know what I just read. I don't know what to think. I don't what to do or how to feel about this book. It was, in one word, phenomenal. And let me tell you why.

A UNIQUE NARRATOR

I was so NOT expecting the book to be narrated this way, to be told in the voice of a person who was watching everything happen from the behind the scenes, who could tell you things that you would have missed had it been recounted by the characters themsel ...more

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Sep 09, 2013 Gabrielle rated it liked it

Shelves: physical-owned, reviewed, read-for-school, classics, big-books

I didint like this book but I greatly appreciated it it was an extremely powerful book if I could use one word for it, it would be powerful did I like diesel? She was not amazing but it was more her story that was amazing but I never really connected with the book much less the characters. The hitler world war 2 setting is not my scene or my preference but this book was very deep and there were a lot of quotable parts. It made me look at death in a completely different way, it makes you question ...more

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May 10, 2013 Rachel rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, completely-awesome

I laughed, cried, groaned, laughed, and cried some more all through out this book. At one point I woke up my sister with my giggles and sobs from across the house. (Now I'm just crying because Zusack hasn't released a book in forever!!!!!)
I don't see how anyone can complain about this book. It is a bit cynical but it is talking about Nazi Germany, not rainbows and unicorns. The point of view is really unique and all the characters are wonderful (-ly developed, I mean, not a great person I would ...more

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