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Markus Zusak
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Pages: 560 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0552773891
Pub: Black Swan
Pub date: 2008-01-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5
Reader Reviews:
where did this go to ? (0/0 people found this helpful)
I seem to be one of the few people who is not impressed by this book. I found the style very heavy handed and simplistic. The storyline meandered and seemed to have no purpose. The voice and content of the death naration was predictable and to me seemed a little uninteresting and immature. I would really only recommend this book to someone who wants to get some more colour on life during the second world war of a civilian german family and community.
Wow! What a fantastic read. (0/0 people found this helpful)
I couldn't put this book down.
It's narrated by Death who has a beautiful and colourful view of the world. It is the only book that I have read that gives away endings before they come. Sounds strange but it works.
Liesel is a nine year old girl who tackles all that life throws at her. Which is an awful lot; her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp and her brother dies before her eyes. The characters in this book will make you laugh, cry and make your blood boil.
Definitely recommended to everyone who is interested in the Nazi period as the characters reactions and thoughts towards what is happening is so believable. People do what they have to do to get by and when their sympathy gets in the way they have to pay the price.
When starting the book it may be difficult to get into, I personally didn't have a problem as it grabbed me right from the start, but bear with it. Both my gran and mum didn't get past the first few chapters which is a great shame.
I really didn't want the book to end. A definite must read.
Ugh (1/1 people found this helpful)
Normally I don't write "bad" reviews and tend to only review books that I enjoyed, but this one has so many positive reviews (that I really don't understand!!) that I feel it needs more negative reviews. I read a LOT of books and this is just a piece of crap. The first half is utterly boring, the second half seems to only be there to try and make you cry (let's kill everyone! that'll make you feel bad!) and the writing style is SO annoying, it made me want to throw the book out the window several times (I may still do that!). Also, this third person narrative makes it so you never know what anyone is feeling and makes you simply not care about any of the characters. They are all very 2-dimensional. Bad book, ignore the hype, it isn't worth it.
A really poorly written book. (1/3 people found this helpful)
I thought this a really poorly written book,SOME of the facts were correct,O.K.it was a different way of writing a book,but if you have been caught up in the goings on at that time as I was,I think there are better ways of putting it on paper.The constant use of bad language,and the use of unpleasant name calling is NOT of that time.I feel the author,is someone of the modern generation who does not really know how things were during the these times in which this book took place.And if I am wrong about that may be his idea of writing as though death had written the book was just so morbid,there was enough morbidity and bad feeling at the time,so why add to the grief?If a writer needs to paint a book in such dark colours,maybe he should also get his facts right.The use of the German language is repetative,as though those were the few German words he knew or found in a dictionary,so he used them over and over again.A thoroughly miserable book giving the public who read it a totaly twisted idea of that era,even though it certainly was not good living there,at that time.
Hmmm....strictly okay. (0/1 people found this helpful)
I read it based on various recommendations. The copy had lots of reviews which made me anticipate a really good read. It's really difficult to get into and some sections are extremely slow. Was disappointed overall.
However, it was interesting to read about the 2nd World War from the German Peoples' perspective The Author's style was different where the future is told then backtracks to explain how.
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