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Death is a likeable character, even though they're simply the narrator and someone who appears only as people are dying. Markus does a good job of giving Death a sympathetic personality.
I really liked how he showed the evolution of Liesel's stealing, her relationship with the mayor's wife, with Rudy, with the Hubermanns, with Frau Holtzapfel, and with Max. Zusak does a great job showing how each of these relationship progresses and effects Liesel throughout her young life. There are intricacies ...more
I really liked how he showed the evolution of Liesel's stealing, her relationship with the mayor's wife, with Rudy, with the Hubermanns, with Frau Holtzapfel, and with Max. Zusak does a great job showing how each of these relationship progresses and effects Liesel throughout her young life. There are intricacies ...more
I feel that too many people are forgetting that this is a work of fiction when reviewing this. They are so obsessed with the facts surrounding the time setting and place of the story that they don't take in the story itself.
I personally stay away from books of this nature for many reasons. To clarify on the "books of this nature," I mean books that are fiction placed in real world settings. I know that that can be difficult to stay away from all the time but I do my best.
The writing was okay. I ...more
I personally stay away from books of this nature for many reasons. To clarify on the "books of this nature," I mean books that are fiction placed in real world settings. I know that that can be difficult to stay away from all the time but I do my best.
The writing was okay. I ...more
Beautiful imagery
That was such a beautiful written story. I'm glad that I read it in german (since it's my mother tongue) because so it seemed more "real". It would have been weird for me to read a story in english which takes places in germany while WW2 and has a german main character. I was shocked by the ending but still liked it a lot. The writing style is just so beautiful and the way to use Death as the narrator of the story is unusual, but nonetheless good.
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An incredibly moving story that had me hooked at the first page. The power of words is amazing! My Grandad was captured by the Germans in that war and kept prisoner for 5 years so it made it more interesting for me. Lucky he wasn't Jewish.... He survived with only shrapnel wounds.
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