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Rating  - amazing book!
The Book Thief is a must read!
It is written in a unique, rather brilliant style, having an almost magical feel to it.
The story is powerful...as the bare truth often is.
one of the best books I have ever read!
Rating - Loss, love, and survival
Thanks to many critics' lists of best contemporary books, I took notice of this masterpiece of a novel. This is not only my favorite book of the past year, this is one of my top five favorite books ever. This brilliant story of loss and the pursuit of love and belonging could have been set in any time or location. Nevertheless, the setting also serves as one of the best accounts of life on WWII Germany's home front I've ever read. The story is told with beautifully simple and often poetic language and the characters are treated with a restraint that is masterful. The setting and the characters were so vivid and alive that I felt as if I too had lived with the Hubermann's on Himmel Street. While I highly encourage teenagers to read this novel, I do hope that they will read it again as a young adult and yet again as an older adult. This book has so much to teach us all regardless of our stage of life. Within hours of reading the last chapter, I found myself hurrying to pass the book along to a loved one. However, I'll soon buy another copy for I will definitely find myself reading this many times over in the coming years.
Rating - Absolutely Brilliant
Markus Zusak has done an amazing job on his book "The Book Thief". I have heard that the book will be made into a movie, and I really hope this is true! This is one of my favorite books of all time!
It starts out in the 1930s in Nazi Germany in a train, where a little girl (Liesel Meminger) and her mother and younger brother are. They are on their way in the snowy weather to go to a foster home, where the mother is going to leave Liesel and her brother. Liesel's father was a Communist, and he had already been rounded up by the Nazis and sent to a Concentration Camp. His wife was left alone with two young children, and she simply could not take care of them. The boy dies in the train, so Liesel is left and sent off to the foster home of Rosa and Hans Hubermann.
The rest of the book tells a happy-yet-sad story of Liesel during her few years on Himmel Street, including her new best friend Rudy, and her eccentric step-parents.
I would recommend this fantastic book to anybody in 7th or 8th grade through adult. Any age between then would be blown away by this amazing story.
Rating - Couldn't put it down
This book was much better than I thought it would be. It was recommended to me by my daughter and we don't normally agree on books. After reading the first couple of chapters I still couldn't decide if I wanted to keep with it or not; but after a couple of more I couldn't put it down. It provides the reader with a different perspective than is normally published on the German people during WW II. If you have any interest in that time period you won't be disappointed in The Book Thief.
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