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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Miss it - Miss out! I'm a complete book worm and this book has gone straight into my top 5 all time best books! Totally absorbing. Fantastically written.
Sad, happy, poignant,life affirming (even though the narrator is death!)
The characters get into your soul and it will stay with you for a long time after you've read it. I finished it a few days ago and have recommended it to everyone and now, I want to go back and read it all over again! It's a cliche but if you only read one book this year, make sure... more info
Haunted by humans - and by this wonderful book I approached this book with some apprehension. The cover illustration on my copy seemed almost twee and the selected review quote - `When Death tells a story, you really have to listen' - contrived and gimmicky. The first few pages did little to relieve my reservations either. Death, the narrator, has a glib style, using colloquialisms and jokey asides, again worrying me that a topic as serious and solemn as life in Nazi Germany and the plight of the Jews during the War was to be treated in such a... more info
This is definately one worth stealing I read this book a few months ago and it still has me thinking of how peoples lives were changed (even now) beyond recognition and belief by one mans' hatred. It is a book full to the brim with beauty,love,innocence,bravery,hatred,brutality,ignorance,indifference and tragedy. Truly a reflection of humanity at its best and worst. I loved every minute of it, so beautifully written even death seemed alive. I recommend this to everyone who loves stories whether based on truth or fairy tale, I will read it again... more info
Whats that all about? I bought this book about 8 months ago and only got around to reading it recently. It came highly recommended to me by a number of people who had read it. I must confess that when I had got over the idea that I had to like it, I realised that it just didn't live up to expectations at all. The premise of the book is good. It tells the a story of how the War affected ordinary German citizens. It debunks the myth that everyone in Germany during the war was a Nazi sympathiser, and and that overnight they all... more info
