Interview with Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief
Its just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and ...
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Hi, I'm reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and I'm about a fourth of the way through. I'm in the chapter called The Attributes of Summer in part 3, and the book doesn't seem very interesting yet. I was wondering if the whole book is like this or
A: It gets exponentially better at one point, but for now just appreciate the set up and the fantastic but tricky writing.
Its just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and ...
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I started to feel pressure that this book was all hype and wow, but what if I read it and I did not like it. The Life of Pi is my Achilles’ heel – that book strikes the fear of reading in to me. I totally freeze when ever I pick it up and can’t... There was just something about the book that put me off reading it. It might have been the fanfare regarding it – so many reviews had said it was a brilliant book and and and. I took this book along with me when we did the Whale Trail earlier this year and I flew through this book in just over a day – it was gripping and brilliant. I think this book had tried to be introduced to my book club several times, and it kept getting bounced. I personally wasn’t really putting my weight behind it to get it into book club either. The thing does not make sense, so I live in fear that there are more books out there that I might be too mentally slow to understand....