Emma from Blue Chicken Ninja wrote a post yesterday about favourite last sentences from books you have read. I was pleasantly surprised to see the first sentence she had included was from the book I had just finished, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
I was actually considering writing a little something on this book anyway, as I really enjoyed it, then this post of Emma’s came up, and enlightened me to the fact that there was a film of the book too!! If you already know this, sorry, but as I said yesterday, I only know the classics, and when I come across more modern movies, I get excited, thinking everyone else is like me, and isn’t up to date!!
Anyway…. Emma’s favourite last line…
Death. Yes, the book is written from the perspective of Death, sort of letting us know Death is not a bad thing, but merely the one who has to go around, collecting all the souls, when a death occurs. He focuses on the story of a young girl Liesel Memminger, and how Death seems to visit her, or those around her, a few times, and the books that seem to be the defining items at moments in her life.
Set in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s in Nazi Germany, it follows the story of a young girl, sent to live with foster parents. The couple who take her in aren’t enamoured of the Nazi beliefs, and are Jew sympathisers, who end up taking in a young Jewish man, to help him hide, and survive. I don’t want to say too much, it would make you reading the book a pointless activity!
There is the sweetness of a young love story within the book… Bittersweet, I should say… But I shan’t say any more, that gives things away!
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The book was amazing. I would recommend all to read it. The film…beautifully shot, but missing so many key parts in the book, and characters. But hey, what’s a film maker to do? They only have 90 odd minutes to try and picturise a novel! So therefore, if you have seen the film, read the book… You will get so much more of the background, the whole story!
Happy reading, hopefully!!!
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