Get started, add a book to your profile!Start with your current and favorite reads. You can also see what your friends have read, browse recommendations based on the books you choose, and review your favorite reads. |
The Book
This book was so good I bought a copy after reading it for Book Club. I now have MY HARD BACK, and bought 6 more as I know once lent it will never be returned. This Book will be read by many, 5 have gone already and the readers will have experienced a brilliant book and will be better for the experience. This book also coincided with 'The Black Book' a film. If you get the chance please see it. The film makes The Book Thief even more remarkable!
This was the best book I have read in a long time it was written really well. I recommend it to all.
I picked this book up because one of my graduate professors recommended it to me. I started reading it and could not put it down. It is such a compelling story and so well written. A truly good book makes you feel as you read it and this book really did that.
Just felt impelled to comment. I recently gave this to my 12 year old daughter as she was searching for something to read. She was riveted the whole way through and kept asking me what's going to happen to Max and Rudy. By the end of the book, she was in tears... and asked me "why did you make me read that"..... now that the 'shock' has worn off, she has been quite reflective and continues to talk about it.
What a piece of writing.
This book is very good. I still think about it and have continued reading books about that time period---it is so heart breaking and I so wish such suffering hadn't occured in our world.
Have you picked up The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas yet? Consider listening to it in audio---its like another piece to the great puzzle of that time era----Why? Why? Why? did this happen------
Best book ive read in agggggggges!, Cant believe is going to turn into a major motion picture!. I cant wait for it!! :D
I agree with you fully, books from that period let you know so much. It really makes you wish this had never happened, to know that it is currently happening in our times is even more heartbreaking..there are a lot of people suffering like that in the world.
Is the Boy in the stripped pajamas worth a shot?
Yes, the Boy in the Stripped Pajamas is still lingering in my mind-----it got me where the soul meets the brain and the heart is left with a feeling of awareness that come out of a books awakening. Bruno, the little boy from whose perspective the story is told thinks that his father has been transferred to "Outwith". The author calls it a fable but you are going to hear a lot about this book. Some think of it as a children's story----it is not! It is a story that has to be told----for the same reason that The Book Thief has to be told and retold.
Stories----give voice to those whose cries were not heard when they should have been.
