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Aug 27, 2019 Kawther rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, made-me-cry-for-hours, gutting-feeling

It took me a long while to pick this book up and read it,

It was a slow read but so worth it, it allowed the story to grow on me, to get inside me and take roots,
to finally rip me open and make me cry my heart out once the story was done

I'm writing this while I'm still in tears, this beauty of these words is unmatchable and haunting
The characters made me smile, laugh and also cry, you can't think of them as anything less than real

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Aug 12, 2014 Fari Manonose rated it it was ok

Shelves: historical

A beautifully written boring story.

The main themes in this book are the Nazi war, Death and Love & Regret. The kiss with Rudy...I seriously wish that had happened.

About a third into the book, I checked book reviews to see if anyone else didn’t like the book and I was so glad I wasn’t the only one who just was...you know...bored.

I liked the idea of death as the narrator, and his character was well defined and multidimensional. However, he quickly became annoying. The author did well in telling a A beautifully written boring story.

The main themes in this book are the Nazi war, Death and Love & Regret. The kiss with Rudy...I seriously wish that had happened.

About a third into the book, I checked book reviews to see if anyone else didn’t like the book and I was so glad I wasn’t the only one who just was...you know...bored.

I liked the idea of death as the narrator, and his character was well defined and multidimensional. However, he quickly became annoying. The author did well in telling an individual story in a much bigger global story and this served the purpose of showing how WW2 affected Germany as a whole and the individuals trapped on a stage set by their leaders.

Death though...seriously, at first I loved him (never thought I’d love death even if it(he?) was fictional) then he just started to release these spoilers like bombs (pun intended) and I’d experience that stupid human reflex. You know, when you see someone naked and you close your eyes even though you’ve already seen them and can never unsee them even if you try. I could not unsee his spoilers. So now every time a read about Rudy I knew (view spoiler) . Now imagine if I hadn’t put those spoiler tags...that’s what death kept doing, spoiling without warnings. It made events meant to be touching not touching, just, ‘oh well I have to go through this even though I’ve been told about it like 5 times already. So you can imagine why I hate him now. Annoying little prick.

I know this book is a supposed to be a slow moving book, well I know it now but I didn’t know it before so it really sucked reading it. I'd be waiting for the ‘EXCITING’ instances of BOOK THIEVERY!!! (-_-) (which by the way wasn’t that exciting cause I always knew before she stole a book and she stole like 4 or 5 books, which she technically didn’t steal. One she picked up, others were given to her, one she rescued from fire....what a little gangsta we have.)I mean death really made a big deal of this book thievery and that made me think it would be sooooo epic....it wasn't.

I was annoyed by the translation of statements in German to English following the actual English statement, it made me feel like the characters where saying things twice e.g. blockquote>Liesel answered quietly. “Auch Mama—also Mama.”
That gave me the nagging feeling that she literally said 'also mama' twice. If you ask me this book involved a whole lot of ‘TIME THIEVERY’. Not funny? Not amusing? Annoying? You can imagine how I felt about the unnecessary cliff hangers that involved the phrase “BOOK THIEVERY”.

This was a beautifully written book though i'll give it that. A beautifully written, intricately plotted boring story. It’s not that i'ts not good. I just didn't like it #MyOpinion. When I read I mainly focus on the plot, emotions and characters. So if all these are slow in developing, even if that is the intent of the author...I tend to then dislike the book. I guess I’m not much of a sophisticated reader since I love Twilight but hate this. But I just go with what I like, and a lot of the times I like what everyone else my age likes. What critics consider crap, and I consider gold. To sum it all up, I felt that this was a long book whose events I felt could have been covered in like 80 pages. Peace!
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