this is an awesome book. very interesting.

posted Oct 3, 2011 at 4:11AM

different piont of view! great!

posted Nov 17, 2011 at 8:26PM

This book was O.k. It was not the best book I have ever read but I did like the two different points of view. It was just a bit to slow for my taste. I recommend it to anyone who like historical fiction.

posted Jan 17, 2012 at 3:58PM

How do the characters of Death, a book thief and her foster parents, a boxing Jew and young German boy who wants to be Jessie Owens make a wonderful reading experience—I am not really sure but they do. When I began to read this book I wasn’t sure I would enjoy Death as the narrator in the setting of World War II, but somehow it works. Death tells the story of Liesel Meminger, a 13-year old girl and “book thief” who has lost her family in the early stages of World War II. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. I loved the characters, I adored the way the book was written and the plot was brilliantly conceived—5 out of 5 stars.

posted Mar 20, 2012 at 9:29PM

This appears to be one of those books you like or really hate. The style is a little unusual in that the story is told by Death. Appropriate however, perhaps as the book takes place in Nazi Germany, ironically on a street called "Himmel" (heaven). Some people are annoyed by the narrator and the sometimes weird descriptions. Partly, maybe because I was listening and the reader was really good, the style did not bother me. I have to say I found this book good but not overly compelling. I’m surprised by the young people who read it and called it "life changing" but perhaps they are just discovering literature about the Holocaust. Want something about the Holocaust that’s life changing? Try Night by Elie Wiesel.

posted Apr 10, 2013 at 9:39AM

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