Customer Reviews
Too horrific for words but a brilliant read! - By: Lexia269, 19 Jul 2008 
It's been a long time since I've read a book that has moved me in such a way as this one did.
'The Boy In Striped Pyjamas' tells the tale of the family of a Nazi Commanding Officer during World War Two & how their lives change when they are uprooted from their large mansion house in Berlin to a smalll, lone house in Auschwitz. Just as he is becoming more & more bored with his new life, Bruno meets Shmuel, a boy of the same age who lives on the other side of the wire fence at the end of the garden, & who always wears striped pyjamas. The boys soon become friends but little does Bruno know, that this friendship will open his eyes to a world he had never known.
Telling the tale from the point of view of nine year old Bruno adds to the already horrifying circumstance that the book examines, as the language is so simple & innocent that it makes the events alll the more terrible.
With a climax that'll leave you in complete shock, this is a definite must-read.
Thoughtful and interesting - By: G. Bruist, 17 Jul 2008 I read this book in one day & it is one of the most thought provoking & interesting stories I have read recently. The level of writing is excellent & I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to read something a little different.
Must read. - By: R. Red, 14 Jul 2008 I have read many of the reviews on this website & I am puzzled by some of them. I thought this was a moving account of a friendship between two young people in a terrible time. The historical accuracy,probability of it alll actuallly happening...these thoughts do not trouble me because I felt it to be a story of friendship & understanding. I recommend it without reservation.
The Holocaust - closer to home than we like to admit - By: P. Goodwin, 12 Jul 2008 Most reviewers here have extolled the virtues this Irishman's tale only to the extent of its provoking thoughts regarding the horrors of Hitler's handiwork. However what struck me quite forcefully as I put the book down was the unthinkable suggestion that such a thing as the holocaust could ever happen again? With this suggestion the punch of the book as a whole becomes an order of magnitude higher.
Great Britain, the country which more than most had the honour of liberating Europe from Nazi rule, began its own holocaust only 22 years later. At time of writing our MP's are about to consider widening the road to Auschwitz by further liberalizing the laws on abortion. The German public were taken in by the persuasive propaganda of their rulers, & we wonder at them. Are we any less gullible than they as we follow the propaganda of the abortionist's `final solution'?
A truly powerful book, thankyou Mr Boyne.
i nearly cried - By: , 10 Jul 2008 This isnt in fact P A Robbins but her daughter.
i got his book on a whim & was quite annoyed when the blurb didnt tell me anything about the book, this decision by the author was, unlike what i thought, a very good one. My first impresions by the little bit of info it gives on the book were that it was going to like a mythical world that you could enter through a gate, i was however very mistaken. It could be that i was in some ways correct, as the world on the other side of the fence is never seen by us anymore & i hope it will never be seen again. I cant reallly give a review with out giving away the plot, but i will try, sorry if i give away to much. This book is such an exellent insight in to this period in history. You may think that because its through the eyes of a nine year old boy that nothing would be clear.
But the fact that it through the sight of a nine year old boy makes you guess & that is a great aspect to this book. Me being only just a teenager & reading this book at at the age of twelve, will find it different to adults reading it. This book makes you think at the end of it & those thoughts werent happy ones for me. It makes you see the other side of a story that has alwasy been one sided when told to you. I hated the fact that you knew what was actuallly happening, yet the two boys didnt. In a way that is the pain of the book you must endre to enjoy it. Over alll this is a very touching book & i think a must read. It is not to long for you to get bored but then it is not so short for it to be finished to early.
A MUST READ!!!!!!!
p.s. sorry for any spelling mistakes.
