http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ A book club with a difference en Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:26:21 +0000 http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/what-a-book#post-448 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:13:41 +0000 ingrid 448@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>Wow what a reaction from a thread, glad I asked the question now!! </p> <p>Eileen, I'm with you, I dusted it off and re read it over Christmas, I have to say it's even better the 2nd time around because I knew what was coming around the corner so i was trying to relive every moment of the book and soak up all the little details. And yes I still cried buckets!! </p> <p>Think this book will be with me for a good while now. </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/what-a-book#post-411 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:46:05 +0000 Eileen 411@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>Ok- it's slightly turning into an obsession with me! I'm re-reading The Book Thief and enjoying it just as much second time round. </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/what-a-book#post-409 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:46:14 +0000 Gav 409@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>I really enjoyed The Book Thief and recommended it to people at work and family. I loved how Death was the narrator it was so unusual-it really grabbed my attention right from the start and kept me enthralled. I thought the success of this book was in the fact that the characters were just so believable=great read from start to finish. </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/what-a-book#post-381 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:49:09 +0000 Bashert 381@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>I really enjoyed The Book Thief and unlike some of you I thought the drawings and notes added to the pathos and poignancy of the story. Don't often cry over a book but I cried buckets over The Book Thief. I'm going through a bit of a Holocaust phase at the moment. Anyone else interested in the same genre might like to read "The Kindly Ones" by Jonathan Littell ... a most disturbing book in my view. </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/what-a-book#post-379 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:14:14 +0000 Eileen 379@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>I felt exactly like that Bookbug, and it took me ages to find another book to live up to the standard! </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/what-a-book#post-376 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:16:50 +0000 Bookbug 376@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>I just finished this book about ten minutes ago and I feel I just want to turn back to the beginning and read it all again! The Book Thief was definitely one of my favourite reads of 2009 so far. </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/what-a-book#post-362 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:59:38 +0000 maraine 362@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>This is my first post woo hoo!</p> <p>I recently finished this book and loved it. I know it is fiction but I felt comforted by the story. Why? By how selfless and giving people can be although life it raining bricks. At first I wasn't sure about the approach to the story but after a few chapters and when Liesel joined the Hubermann household I was hooked. Wasn't it a novel idea to have death as the narrator? My imagination conjures up a foreboding and sinister image of death but here he was likeable. For a finish as well as feeling sorrow for the other characters I equally felt sorrow for death. I'm glad I read this book. </p> <p>As for the illustrations. Hmm, found them a bit surplus to requiements! Didn't feel they added anything to my enjoyment of the story. </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/what-a-book#post-334 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:24:52 +0000 pounder 334@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>Just finished. Best book I've read in the last year. Poor auld Rudy Steiner. Lesson for girls out there: Kiss the boy 'fore its too late!! </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/what-a-book#post-243 Mon, 04 May 2009 15:17:43 +0000 yct 243@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>LOVED this book. I have bought it for others &amp; have heard positive things back.<br /> I really enjoyed the unusual narration &amp; crying buckets at the end... </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/what-a-book#post-219 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:35:17 +0000 Carizza 219@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>See, I had really high hopes about The Book Thief. My husband was reading it and really liked it and I kept urging him to hurry up so I could have it. I read it in a day while on holiday and just did not like it. I hated the structure of the prose, I hated the little drawings and I didn't especially like any of the characters.</p> <p>I was really disappointed. </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/what-a-book#post-210 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:08:44 +0000 ingrid 210@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>Hey ckeyes only just started &quot;Outcast&quot; so too early to tell yet but i'm enjoying it so far. Hard to get into another book after such a good previous one. My mind keeps wandering back to The Book Thief! </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/what-a-book#post-206 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:22:34 +0000 Ck 206@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>The book Thief is also in my top three. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I've read the 'Outcast' too Ingrid. What do you think? </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/what-a-book#post-199 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:36:38 +0000 Eileen 199@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>I felt like that about the Book Thief too, it's amazing. The language and the whole idea of it totally enthralled me. </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/what-a-book#post-197 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:36:45 +0000 ingrid 197@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>I've just finished &quot;The Book Thief&quot; and feel i'll never read another book quite like it again. </p> <p>I had heard it was good so expected a lot from it but the minute i read the first chapter i was hooked and even hurrying to bed early each night to read more of it! I fell in love with each character within the book especially Rudy and Papa. It is such a moving story and when I finished the book, it made it all the more poignant to think that it is only 1 story from a time when I'm sure there were thousands more of a similar nature. Wonderfully written,I'd recommend it to anyone, this has now been moved to my top 3. </p>