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| The Book Thief | 
 enlarge | Author: Markus Zusak
Publisher: Doubleday
Category: Book
List Price: £10.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  333 reviews
Sales Rank: 122083
Media: Paperback
Edition: Airport/Export Ed
Pages: 592
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.9
ISBN: 0385611471
EAN: 9780385611473
ASIN: 0385611471
Publication Date: July 3, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Softcover, Small signs of wear to outer cover with spine creased. Pages very good and clear throughout. Despatched TODAY by 1st class or Airmail IF ordered by 4.20pm (weekdays only), or 11.20am (Saturday), otherwise next working day.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Delicately written, thoughtful and meaningful. November 10, 2008
I won't go in to the details of this book because I don't want to ruin any of it for you, the story is very unique and told from an unusual perspective.
I just loved this! It's very rare that I keep hold of a book, I usually pass it to a friend to read but I found myself buying additional copies for my friends so that they could share the beauty of it.
This book is just outstanding! I wouldn't usually read this type of book, I thought it was going to be heart-wrenching and gritty which it actually was, but it was done in such a delicate manner that I just enjoyed reading it so much.
I was quite sorry I read it so quickly, I would have liked to keep the joy of reading it for longer.
Buy it, read it, keep it.
 Didn't Quite Steal my Heart November 5, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
An interesting ploy to have DEATH narrate this quaint tale of a young German girl stumbling upon and stealing various books whilst World War 2 and the holocaust is buzzing all around her.
For me it didn't quite hit home as a GREAT, but nonetheless it has a certain charm - and worth a run if you've got the time; at 560 pages you're going to need it as the events are fairly pedestrian.
Oh, give it a go...then tell me I'm wrong!
Death makes a fabulous narrator!! October 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I actually started to read this book with reluctance. It's everywhere in the book shops, always on some sort of offer, everyone appears to have read it. This puts me off! I don't know why. A need to be different I guess. But it had excellent reviews and for once I wasn't going to let my stubbornness get the better of me.
So I started to read The Book Thief. It's narrated by Death, different I thought, but it worked. Yes you know who's going to die before you actually read about it, but why do we have to be surprised by death! I feel that if Death hadn't prepared me for the ending of this book it would have felt a bit OTT, or I would have been so overcome with emotion I wouldn't have appreciated how life affirming this book is. The book would not be the same without the narrator.
It was an easy read. I found I'd made it through a hundred pages in no time at all, always a nice feeling. But my entire outlook on the book changed when Max's first book is given to Liesel. I was hooked; I couldn't put the book down!
The Book Thief made me laugh, and for the first time whilst reading a book, it made me cry! Some people have said that they haven't enjoyed it as it was depressing. Yes it's sad, but I feel completely enlightened having read it. It's set in a tragic time, it's narrated by death, it's going to be depressing. But above all this, it is beautiful and extremely thought provoking. It is interesting to be reading a war story from a German point of view. I think it's very easy to forget that thousands of German people lost their lives during WWII and this book is a stark reminder of this.
I have read that they are going to be turning this book into a film. If it is done well the film should be amazing! If the book made me cry I cannot imagine the mess I would be in by the end of the film. Read this book, it's important!
One of my favourite books October 29, 2008
It is original and touching. A beautiful story which made me cry, a rare event.
unforgetable October 26, 2008
This book is so different from any thing else I have read. The plot is original and unforgetable, the writing is brilliant. Read this book it will stay with you for a long time after you've finished it.
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