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Dec 24, 2021
Kirsten
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I originally read this book in 2006 and ended up bawling like mad. When I told my dad, he told me "It's the Holocaust!! It doesn't end well!!" Well, that is a benchmark for me. If I know how a story will end and I still have a severe emotional reaction the author has done their job.
What is even more impressive is if you cry again when you do a reread (which is why I don't reread or rewatch Where the Red Fern Grows).
Although ostensibly a Young Adult work, all the characters are so well done it's ...more
What is even more impressive is if you cry again when you do a reread (which is why I don't reread or rewatch Where the Red Fern Grows).
Although ostensibly a Young Adult work, all the characters are so well done it's ...more
I really liked this book. The characters were all wonderful and the writing was really very intriguing. Markus Zusak can definitely find some very interesting ways to go about describing things and I loved that.
"Death" as the protagonist was OKAY, but the book could have been just as good without that whole gimmick I think. What I definitely did not care for were the constant starred and bolded interjections from the narrator that came along every page or so. I think all of that could have been ...more
"Death" as the protagonist was OKAY, but the book could have been just as good without that whole gimmick I think. What I definitely did not care for were the constant starred and bolded interjections from the narrator that came along every page or so. I think all of that could have been ...more
Having Death as the narrator was genius. The fact that Death has such dry humor and shows such fascination of the human nature just makes it all even better.
That being said, the story itself is very heavy reading. All books from the world wars are like that, especially the second world war I tend to think. This time we get the story of a little German girl in a small town - she's from a poor neighborhood and all they really care about (at least, most of them) is trying to survive. At the beginni ...more
That being said, the story itself is very heavy reading. All books from the world wars are like that, especially the second world war I tend to think. This time we get the story of a little German girl in a small town - she's from a poor neighborhood and all they really care about (at least, most of them) is trying to survive. At the beginni ...more
I finished this book this morning. I read it as the first selection from my new book club. I’d already seen the movie, plus there is a lot of foreshadowing, so I knew the ending would be both sad and hopeful. I can’t read another bleak book for a while, though. When I saw the movie, I heard it was going to be a hard book to film and I know what they meant now. The writing is full of metaphor, clever prose and even puns. Some of that came through in the film, but I am glad to have read the book t
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