The Book Thief. “The Extraordinary New York Times #1 BESTSELLER”Oh really?
Unimpressive. Language. Overtly. Pretentious.
Undecipherable. Senseless. Metaphors. Incomplete.
Sentences.
Why, why would someone write like that? Too much repetition, big words which are not required, metaphors which don’t make sense at all. And colors. What is it with colors? Time and again, the author talks of colors. Red sky, gray road, blue sky. Am I missing something? The writing style looks forced upon. The detailed descriptions don’t make sense. Midway the story gets interesting or was it just curiosity getting the better of me? Beats me.
The setting being Germany, a lot of German words are thrown in, however unlike other books, the good thing here is that they are all explained. So now I know a bit of German too. Saukerl and Saumensch, mainly. Personally, I like books with small chapters and even smaller sections in it. Each time I move to a new chapter, it highlights my progress to me. In this aspect, The Book Thief gets full marks. Infact, this might be the only aspect in which it gets any marks at all.
(By the way, Saukerl & Saumensch is when you call someone a pig. Saukerl for a boy, Saumensch for a girl.)
The story was good. But too long. An uncommon narrator, Death, tells about the story of Liesel with her foster parents in
It certainly does not have what the raving reviews claim. All in all, for all those looking to read all the books in the world, I would suggest keeping The Book Thief for later.
Much later.
