FAQ: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

FAQ 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.

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 ...

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The Book Thief – Markus Zusak « The Reluctant Mom's Blog

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....

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