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The Book Thief

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dandj
Love of my life....

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Denise

The Book Thief

What an intense book...It was good but so sad...I sobbed at the end.

I liked the way it was narrated too...

Any one else read it?

Posted 3/23/10 4:37 PM
 
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AliceCullen
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Re: The Book Thief

I gave up about 50 pages in, I just couldn't get into it. Everyone I know loved it though so I'll have to give it another shot at some point.

Posted 3/23/10 6:08 PM
 

DayDay
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Dayna

Re: The Book Thief

What's it about?

Posted 3/24/10 1:14 PM
 

dandj
Love of my life....

Member since 5/05

3687 total posts

Name:
Denise

Re: The Book Thief

Got this off Amazon...sums it up


Death himself narrates the World War II-era story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken, at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working-class neighborhood of tough kids, acid-tongued mothers, and loving fathers who earn their living by the work of their hands. The child arrives having just stolen her first book–although she has not yet learned how to read–and her foster father uses it, The Gravediggers Handbook, to lull her to sleep when shes roused by regular nightmares about her younger brothers death. Across the ensuing years of the late 1930s and into the 1940s, Liesel collects more stolen books as well as a peculiar set of friends: the boy Rudy, the Jewish refugee Max, the mayors reclusive wife (who has a whole library from which she allows Liesel to steal), and especially her foster parents. Zusak not only creates a mesmerizing and original story but also writes with poetic syntax, causing readers to deliberate over phrases and lines, even as the action impels them forward. Death is not a sentimental storyteller, but he does attend to an array of satisfying details, giving Liesels story all the nuances of chance, folly, and fulfilled expectation that it deserves. An extraordinary narrative.–Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA

Posted 3/24/10 4:54 PM
 
 

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