The Reader in Read a book from each country

Jun 16, 2009 Coqueline rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favourites

I love this book tremendously. I have always loved books with flawed characters, but The Reader paints a very human story about these flawed characters and I feel a degree of relatedness to them that I don't think I have ever felt with any other literary characters.

I don't think it's got anything with sympathising with the Nazi. The two characters are products of their time and choices. And it asks the questions that resonates with many people that lives in Europe nowadays. How will you take the ...more

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Mar 12, 2010 Sarah Jacquie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, romance, tragedy, historical, crime, german, human-rights

This is one of the few times I felt the movie might have outdone the book, but only in ways a book could never outdo a movie I guess. The movie captured and highlighted elements of the story I found to be the most striking and emphasized them a lot more than the book, and somehow I felt like the characters were better shown. Strange I know, especially when most of the book is from one of the character's point of view and the movie has to hurry to set a foundation for the characters. I felt like ...more

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Oct 12, 2009 Sue rated it really liked it

Shelves: international, world-war-ii

Started out not too sure about this book, but it took an unexpected turn that made it very interesting and morally complex.

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Sep 05, 2009 Ira Bespalova rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-because-liked-the-cover, ordered-in-book-catalogues

The book hasn't made the impression I was waiting for. I'm very much into war-period books telling about the lives of ordinary people. Even though the idea itself and the plot structure seem brilliant, I found "The Reader" a bit boring to my greatest discontent, the film hasn't impressed me either. ...more

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Jun 18, 2009 David rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: novels

My German's not that good, but I decided to read this in the original. Not too hard, not too long.

An interesting take on memory, self-justification and repentance. ...more

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