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The Book Thief
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Jenn
Dec 26, 2013 rated it it was amazing
I know I don't possess the proper words but I'll try. This book was beautiful and horrific. It made me laugh out loud and sob even louder. It made me despair at humans and rejoice in humanity. It was simply a masterpiece and I am better having read it. ...more
Mirliz
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
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