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  1. ingrid

    ingrid
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    Currently Reading: Sarah's key by tatiana de rosna

    I've just finished "The Book Thief" and feel i'll never read another book quite like it again.

    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.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  2. Eileen
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    The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Currently Reading: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

    I felt like that about the Book Thief too, it's amazing. The language and the whole idea of it totally enthralled me.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  3. Ck
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    The book Thief is also in my top three. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I've read the 'Outcast' too Ingrid. What do you think?

    Posted 2 years ago #
  4. ingrid

    ingrid
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    Currently Reading: Sarah's key by tatiana de rosna

    Hey ckeyes only just started "Outcast" 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!

    Posted 2 years ago #

  5. Carizza
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    Stories We Could Tell Currently Reading: Stories We Could Tell by Tony Parsons

    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.

    I was really disappointed.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  6. yct

    yct
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    Guernsey Literary and potato peel pie society Currently Reading: Guernsey Literary and potato peel pie society by Mary Ann Shaffer

    LOVED this book. I have bought it for others & have heard positive things back.
    I really enjoyed the unusual narration & crying buckets at the end...

    Posted 2 years ago #
  7. pounder

    pounder
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    The Male Gaze Currently Reading: The Male Gaze by Joe Treasure

    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!!

    Posted 2 years ago #

  8. maraine
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    The book thief Currently Reading: The book thief by Markus Zusak

    This is my first post woo hoo!

    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.

    As for the illustrations. Hmm, found them a bit surplus to requiements! Didn't feel they added anything to my enjoyment of the story.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  9. Bookbug
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    Great Expectations Currently Reading: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

    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.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  10. Eileen
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    The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Currently Reading: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

    I felt exactly like that Bookbug, and it took me ages to find another book to live up to the standard!

    Posted 2 years ago #

  11. Bashert
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    Currently Reading: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

    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.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  12. Gav
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    Mr Toppit Currently Reading: Mr Toppit by Charles Elton

    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.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  13. Eileen
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    The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Currently Reading: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

    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.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  14. ingrid

    ingrid
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    Currently Reading: Sarah's key by tatiana de rosna

    Wow what a reaction from a thread, glad I asked the question now!!

    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!!

    Think this book will be with me for a good while now.

    Posted 2 years ago #

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