It has been hard carrying this hardback on the underground. It is not light as a paperback, and you cannot push it easily in your bag… but the physical book took perfectly the weight of the words that it carries. The Book Thief is a sad story, a story about the World War II, a story about a life lived and thousands of lives loss.
The book is well written and even if it not able to take your breath away, it is a good book in the end. This is not one of those books you cannot stop reading, and a comparison with “Schindler’s List” is a good one: a good film, that you will not watch twice.
The war without the war, with the death as narrator. Interesting, but not a light reading. A good story, but not enough to keep you awake in the night. Well written, but not breathtaking. I would not suggest it, but to be completely honest it is much better than many many other books I have read lately! Enjoy!
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
[...] Carlo Reviews The war without the war, with the death as narrator. Interesting, but not a light reading. A good story, but not enough to keep you awake in the night. Well written, but not breathtaking. I would not suggest it, but to be completely honest it is much better than many many other books I have read lately! [...]
Oct 11, 2008 @ 4:37
Kate
Wrong wrong wrong! how could you not suggest it? It’s much better than Twilight or any of those other over marketed crap books.
Feb 07, 2009 @ 1:44