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The Book Club :
The Book Thief

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 isthismynewlife (original poster member #43292) posted at 2:20 AM on Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

I may be a little late in reading this since it has already been a movie but what a great book! Cried like a baby through quite a bit of it but couldn't put it down! Normally I don't read books like this one but my DD (15) read it and gave it to me.

Have to admit it was really nice to read a non A related book - even if it was heartbreaking at times!

Me 42 BS
Him 42 FWS
DDay #1 11/28/13 - 7 months EA/a little PA with my supposed friend.
DDAy #2 8/25/14 - oops - did I forget to mention that it was a 15 month PA/EA? He thought the first version would hurt me less.
Things are improving daily!

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abbycadabby ( member #27428) posted at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

Love this book. It was heartbreaking. I haven't seen the movie yet.

WHERE'S THE PUDDING?!

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rachelc ( member #30314) posted at 2:57 PM on Thursday, April 30th, 2015

Quality book - read All the Light We Cannot See - much the same..

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 isthismynewlife (original poster member #43292) posted at 4:46 PM on Thursday, April 30th, 2015

Thanks for the recommendation! I will try that one next. After crying my way through Book Thief I had to shift gears - DD gave me The Maze Runner. Hard to put down!

Me 42 BS
Him 42 FWS
DDay #1 11/28/13 - 7 months EA/a little PA with my supposed friend.
DDAy #2 8/25/14 - oops - did I forget to mention that it was a 15 month PA/EA? He thought the first version would hurt me less.
Things are improving daily!

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sparkysable ( member #3703) posted at 1:47 PM on Thursday, June 4th, 2015

You know...I have The Book Thief. I've had it for years. It's on my bookshelf, but I've never read it! I think it's time I took it off the shelf and actually read it.

D-day OW#1 2/2004;D-day OW#2 5/2010
Marriages that start this way, stepping over the bodies of loved ones as the giddy couple walks down the aisle, are not likely to last.

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Chilli ( member #47017) posted at 5:19 PM on Friday, July 3rd, 2015

This book is amazing, so beautifully written. I love it and cried also! I've read it 3 times....

Only a few books get several reads.

The movie is ok. but it doesn't transfer too well to the big screen I thought. The *story* is told but you don't get the same provocative feeling about the narration, and who is narrating, so much in the movie, and in my opinion that aspect adds such a fascinating layer to the book.

I've tried to be deliberately vague about that, trying not to spoil it for those yet to read.

Some things can't be fixed...

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Tripletrouble ( member #39169) posted at 5:23 PM on Friday, July 3rd, 2015

Oh my goodness - the part where he draws the pictures of their friendship. This book is so beautiful in spite of it's setting, or maybe because of its setting. Such a profound story of love and loyalty. I thought the casting was wonderful when I saw the movie.

40 somethings - me BW after 20 years
D Day April 2013
Divorced November 2013
Happily remarried 2018
Time is a great healer but a terrible beautician.

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shakentocore ( member #46124) posted at 5:41 PM on Thursday, July 9th, 2015

DD13 saw the movie, then read the book. Both are incredibly well done.

I loved the book.

DDay - Christmas 2014. Working on R.

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ILINIA ( member #39836) posted at 4:24 AM on Tuesday, July 21st, 2015

Great book. I saw the movie after and I so wanted to rename my son Rudy, because it was so endearing how she would call out to him "Hudy. Hudy!"

I must be in a WWII kick, as also just finished All the Light We Cannot See and

Sarah's Key

. I would recommend both of those as well.

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burningmidnight ( new member #48917) posted at 8:10 PM on Wednesday, August 12th, 2015

I loved this book. I read it three times. I cried each time. I recommend the Kite Runner.

Per aspera ad astra

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workingonmyself ( member #49740) posted at 12:56 PM on Friday, October 2nd, 2015

great book have not seen the movie -- will put it on my to do list

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whensitover ( member #31207) posted at 3:54 PM on Wednesday, November 4th, 2015

The way this book was written....the wording...was just unbelievable! I felt like a blind person who was being described things and I could actually SEE where they were in the story! I am an avid reader and never have I ever read anything so descriptive in ways that made it just literally come alive!! It was an amazing literary piece! I found myself going back over re-reading parts and thinking "How do you describe something that way???"

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cass ( member #24261) posted at 11:14 PM on Saturday, November 21st, 2015

I loved it and the movie. I'd recommend reading the book first. The movie was wonderfully done but agree that something of the narration was lost or couldn't be transferred.

'The Kite Runner' is another favourite and beautifully written book, and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' also by Khaled Hosseini.

'All the Light We Cannot See' is next on my list.

DDay - April 2008
Me - 58 and doing great, alone.

Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket!

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whensitover ( member #31207) posted at 6:19 PM on Monday, January 11th, 2016

AWESOME book!!!!

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