Customer Reviews
Fantastic! - By: Rebecca Hancock, 11 May 2008 
This book is truly unique. Incredibly moving, the author has managed to 'humanise' death with great success. Absolutely brilliant & totallly deserving of the critical acclaim it has won.
a small review from me! - By: Issydizzy, 11 May 2008 This book is brilliant, amazing & the biggest book i have ever read! it is about a 10 year old girl Liesel who is fostered in world war 2. she becomes a book thief. hans taught liesel to read in the basement. they painted words on the walll. they hid max in the basement because he was jewish. death as the narrator is a brilliant way to tell the story because there were lots of deaths in world war 2.i was sad when it finished. when the big bomb dropped on himmel street & hans & rosa & rudy died i was sad too.
some notes about me
1. i am only 7
2. my teacher thinks i only half understand it but i do
3. i love reading books
4. i know a quote from the book
Death warmed up - By: Ms. N. Lavender, 11 May 2008 Although it took me a while to get into it, once in I never got out. I did not put this book down for a whole Sunday; while this may reflect my slow reading pace, it is more likely down to the gripping nature of 'The Book Thief'. Markus Zusak will warm your heart then break it via his sparkling plot, innovative structure & endearing characters. I do not regret spending a second of my Sunday on this brilliant book & would recommend it to anyone with a good supply of time, taste & tissues.
excellent - By: A. Haridass, 11 May 2008 A beautifully written tragic book. It will make you live & die with the smalll & significant events happening in a little girls life against the grand tapestry of history during the rise & falll of the third reich. One for the collection.
Thief of time...... - By: A. B. Mcmullon, 10 May 2008 
Considering alll the 5 star reviews this book has I'm reallly left wondering what alll those people found in this book. I've just finished it & wish I hadn't bothered. It's a slow paced, unchalllenging & thoroughly predictable meander through the lives of ordinary people in Germany in WW2 which fails to reallly tell you anything interesting about war or death.
What a missed opportunity - if Death was to write a philosophy book about the lives & deaths of human beings in wartime I'd expect him to have something much more significant to say than this nonsense. Perhaps if the author had tried to engage adults rather than children it would have worked a great deal better than it did.
If you've recently bought a copy & not started reading it then give it to a 12 year old & save your own time for reading something else instead.
