The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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Re: The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The narrator tells us the less known side of the Nazi Germany, the side of the little people who are trying to survive in the shadow of war and Nazi atrocities and suffering from poverty and deprivation. One can't not to but sympathize with Liesel and her friends, but at least their weren't victims to the Nazi's greased murder machine. Suffice to say I felt more for the Jewish victims which all of a sudden their world fell apart. The narrator mentions the death marches (Auschwitz and such) and even he is shocked about that. Death notes at the end of the book that he always understates the human race (and with a good reason it seems) and concludes: "I am haunted by humans".
Something to think about: Indeed it wasn't easy to live in Germany during the holocaust era, but it was much worse for the Jew and the other victims.
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It is not my fave genre, but this book really has called my attention. The reviews are great. I'll be reading it soon.Gannon wrote:Its in my top ten favourite books of all time.
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Many of the stories I've heard about that time are focused on the fate of the Jews, for obvious reasons. But I've always wondered about the average person living in Germany. How did this happen and what were they thinking? Feeling? What were their lives like. I loved this book for giving a glimpse into their world. But then I could go on and on about why I loved this book.
Has anyone seen the movie? I don't know if I should watch it or not.
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I love how Death turns into a being-- with some hints at feeling-- and becomes an observant fan of a little girl struggling to read books and create new ideas in a time when anything to enhance the individual and fine tune one's introspection makes this book a "must" in the teaching world. New realistic fiction literature to teach alongside classics like Elie Wiesel's Night and the various other wonderfully devastating non-fiction reflections on the Holocaust is a wonderful thing.
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