Book Thief

I had read the first 50 pages of the Book Thief over the summer holiday and never got the chance to finish it. So when the opportunity was presented to me during our English course I jumped at the opportunity. The first 50 pages were excellent and the rest of the book was not of distaste. We meet Liesel our main character and follow her through the eyes of Death as you move through the novel, which is based in Nazi Germany during the second great war. Liesel grew from the sad little girl on the train to the strong woman we see at the end of the story. In part the reason for my fondness of the book originates from the way in which the narrator is able to keep a quick pace through the book. This fast pace many people feel as thought it would make a fantastic movie. I disagree, not to take away from the "great" works Hollywood produces, but I think this is better left as a book. The book was powerful and through our discussion we all expressed our growing love for Hans and Liesel each and every lit circle, a movie would kill the whole reason behind the book. So as a final statement I urge you to become emerged in your studies and look further into what you see on the television and in movies because many of them have written stories that are far greater than Hollywood or Chucks film creators could ever produce.