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Sarah
Jun 17, 2011 rated it really liked it
I enjoyed this book the whole way through. Zusak evokes the simplicity of a child's love for all that is familiar and routine. The whole community is part of the narrative and their fates feel very real.

I also felt that having the Grim Reaper as narrator was unique and effective.

This is wartime Germany with no "bad guys". Even the Reaper seems like a sympathetic figure, just doing his job. Zusak dodged a bullet by making the protagonists pro-Jewish Germans, but the story was so engrossing that ...more
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Amy
Jul 11, 2014 rated it liked it
I know this book was well-written, but it just totally dragged me down. Possibly, I tried to read it at the wrong time in my life.
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Erik Steiner
Sep 09, 2010 rated it it was amazing
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Feb 15, 2011 rated it really liked it
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Amy 💖
Jul 17, 2011 rated it really liked it
Shelves: may-may, watched-the-movie
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Sep 20, 2011 rated it did not like it
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Nov 25, 2011 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Lea
Jun 10, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Sep 24, 2012 rated it it was amazing
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Jun 15, 2013 rated it really liked it
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Oct 24, 2013 rated it really liked it
Shelves: non-romance, audio-book, historical, 2013
Ashley
Mar 07, 2014 rated it it was amazing
Sarah
Jan 15, 2015 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: book-club
JJ
Mar 30, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Kathleen
Aug 02, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Jenny
Aug 31, 2015 marked it as to-read
Melissa
Sep 13, 2015 rated it really liked it
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Jan 05, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Devin Murphy
Nov 23, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Juanita
Jul 13, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Crystal Rose
Jul 18, 2017 rated it it was amazing
Sarah
Apr 08, 2018 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: global, kids, fiction
Cecelia Griffiths
Dec 04, 2019 marked it as to-read
Meg
Feb 11, 2020 rated it did not like it
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Jul 05, 2020 rated it really liked it
Shelves: own-it
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