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Dec 20, 2020N_1239 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This chilling novel is narrated by Death themself, a character that doesn’t always have a positive connotation, but will go against your preconceptions. But even other than this, so many aspects of The Book Thief make it such a memorable piece of art, such as the diction the author uses, and the “facts'' the author throws out that seem so odd, but are truly insightful. They will leave you sitting in your chair, staring at the sentence and thinking about it constantly, knowing that such simple facts aren’t put in such simple ways. The writing style of Markus Zusak itself is one to make you read the book; it’s truly lyrical, poignant, a bit simple sometimes, but ever so complex. The language of Death is really so beautiful. Along with that, "The Book Thief" has a little bit for everybody; a friendship blossoming into a innocent childhood romance all too late, the deaths and apocalyptic era of World War II, the angry yet sarcastic humor derived from humorous German words, the mystery of the accordion and eyes who saw the burned book in the coat, the chilling jokes of the narrator, and the journey of families on Himmel street in a time that was never heaven. It's truly a book worth reading, because after all, “When Death has a story to tell, you listen.”