The Book Thief

My boyfriend read this as part of his classes before student teaching English, and he passed it on to me. It's "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak.

I'm not 100% in love with all of his techniques (sometimes they work beautifully, other times... meh?), but overall.... Wow. This is just such a quirky, phenomenal and touching book that takes place during the Holocaust but somehow doesn't focus on the suffering.

Quite a good read. =]

It's the techniques and style that left me unable to finish this book. I got half-way through and couldn't read on any further. I can't comment on the story because I haven't finished it. It just felt like I was reading, waiting for the story to come along, and it never did.

I agree, sometimes the techniques do work very well. Initially I liked the way this book was written. There were a few confusing metaphors in there, though. Some of them didn't make any sense.

Anyway, just felt I had to get this out.

I liked this book.

Have you read I am the Messenger by him? I listened to it on audiobook and it's good.

I actually really enjoyed this book (after my prof told us it was death narrating, I though it might be death but I wasn't sure XD, and after the first 20 pages). We had to read it for my english class but I'm glad we did.
I liked the ending and I hated it. I'm not really sure what else to say except that I could probably disect the book for you and tell you comparisions between The Book Thief and Speak XDD. I'm now getting started to do a 10 page take home exam on The Book Thief and Speak so yeppp.

I love The Book Thief so much. I Am the Messenger is phenomenal too, though not quite so much.

^This. To an extent I can understand why some people don't like The Book Thief because of the style, but personally I love it. It's beautiful without segueing (sp?) into purple prose. I love how Zusak showed WWII from the side of the average German citizen. I liked the ending too, though every single time I read it I can't help but cry. Whenever I read it I find myself falling in love with all of the various characters all over again, and it makes me both happy and sad because I know what's coming.

I loved The Book Thief. It was just so beautiful. It made me cry quite a bit, especially towards the end...

The Book Thief legitimately CHANGED MY LIFE
It was a book I had to read for school, and at first I didn't want to - not to mention my sister said it was weird and really bad. But at that time, I had been going through that phase everyone hits when they're just like "Epiphany. I am going to die one day." And reading this book got rid of every fear I had.
Not even joking I had such a crush on Death, I could never be scared of it again

This book made me cry SO MUCH. ;___; which was awkward as I was reading it as an e-book at work while I waited for things to load. So I really hoped that no one would come and ask if I was okay.

I want this Death, Gaiman's Death, and Pratchett's Death to all hang out with the Lady on the Grey for tea or something.

The Book Thief is my favorite book of all time.

I picked it up at a Costco-it was on sale and I really really liked the summary-and I finished it in three hours. And I read it over and over again, and it's just. So hauntingly beautiful, so poetic, so...I love it so much.

Everything was just heartbreakingly beautiful. :( I teared up when Rudy died........and that ending.

The Book Thief is my favorite book of all time.

I picked it up at a Costco-it was on sale and I really really liked the summary-and I finished it in three hours. And I read it over and over again, and it's just. So hauntingly beautiful, so poetic, so...I love it so much.

Everything was just heartbreakingly beautiful. :( I teared up when Rudy died........and that ending.

This book is phenomenal. In my brain it fits into the same category as To Kill a Mockingbird.

I loved this book. It was both beautiful and heartbreaking. I managed to fall in love with almost every character, and the ending made me cry. I personally loved the writing style.... no other book has torn my heart into tiny little pieces quite the same way.

I reread The Book Thief for a book club a while ago, and it was terrible because I knew what was going to happen, so I was close to tear before I was even 15 pages into it... And I'd forgotten that *SPOILERS* everyone died at the end and then I was really really sad.

But I loved the book, and I love the way it's written. It's... refreshing, is the word I think. Something completely different from what I normally read.

Fantastic/amazing/incredible.

*Spoilers I think, maybe, except they don't make sense unless you read the book... Maybe*
I must say, I bawled when she was holding his accordion. And when she kissed Rudy(Yes, yes, not in that order but it was the order I thought of them). I was at school, and everyone kept asking me what was wrong. Nothing is wrong at all with that book.

I must say, I was glad Max came back but I was still heart broken. Just thinking about it makes me want to cry again.