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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Start date: October 1, 2014

Finish date: October 31, 2014

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Mar 02, 2014 Mary Buford rated it really liked it

Shelves: finished

Death as narrator is a unique and powerful way to tell this story. As a reader you know about individual character's' death before it occurs, which is off-putting but intense. The story is unbelievably sad, but must have occurred over and over during WWll. I "read" this on Audible, and the reader was superb.
Want to see the movie. ...more

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Feb 01, 2018 Louise Fry rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: world-war-2

This book took me 4 days to read it was addictive emotional and gripping - it hooked me from the first page to the last - I fell in love with the film and decided to finally read it - the story it transfixed me - it was written in such a beautiful delicate manner you pictured yourself as death just standing and watching what was happening within the book.
I found myself crying at the unjustness of rudy’s death and I still do the tears streamed down my face but that was the reality of war it was u ...more

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