Title: The Book Thief
Author: Markus Zusak
Genre: Fiction/Historical
Rating: 4/5
This book is about a girl during World War and is narrated by the Death itself. I thought the narration added more value to the book through it's interesting take and perspective about things in the world. The story revolves around Liesel, her love for the books and words in her small world consisting of her foster parents, her friend Rudy and Max. Liesel has to go through a lot during the World War and finds solace in her interest with books and words.
Author has provided a very nice read with interesting characters and plot. Though the story surrounds during the holocaust, the details about it is kept to the bare required limit. Here are few things I would have expected the author to handle properly:
Author: Markus Zusak
Genre: Fiction/Historical
Rating: 4/5
This book is about a girl during World War and is narrated by the Death itself. I thought the narration added more value to the book through it's interesting take and perspective about things in the world. The story revolves around Liesel, her love for the books and words in her small world consisting of her foster parents, her friend Rudy and Max. Liesel has to go through a lot during the World War and finds solace in her interest with books and words.
Author has provided a very nice read with interesting characters and plot. Though the story surrounds during the holocaust, the details about it is kept to the bare required limit. Here are few things I would have expected the author to handle properly:
- The events or climax were revealed in advance and the details came later. This, I think, took some intensity off the story telling
- The situations deserved more emotions than what has been provided.
- Less description about the weather on many occasions would have been better
I liked the storyline, worth to be a movie.
ReplyDeleteYes, the movie based on this book was released last year with the same name.
ReplyDeleteWatched it immediately after finishing the book ;-) I was disappointed though as it had quite a few changes and obviously couldn't put all the details which I felt were important. The direction let me down, frankly. Only worth mentioning about the movie was the girl playing the lead role. She did a good job.