I've just started to read this, and although the structure isn't that of a book which i would normally read, I'm hooked. It's a real page turner.
Anyone else read it?
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Other things amazing about this book:
1. Yes, it's not at all short, but that's done for a reason. While reading these 500+ pages, you really get to love its characters - even the bitchy and annoying ones. You get to love the small German town (Molching), its most familiar Himmel Street and almost pray for it to survive the war. The author has done a brilliant job in making the reader very attached to the characters. That's why it's so hard to face and accept what happens in the end of the story.
2. The story is narrated by Death. As you read, you get to smile (and sometimes freak-out) at all those sarcastic "side-notes" made by this unusual narrator, such as "It kills me sometimes, how people die".
3. It's almost impossible to mention all themes that this book covers because there are so many: Destruction vs Creation (always side-by-side), Love, Friendship, Cruelty... Death, ambiguity of thievery.
4. The book is literally a fount of quotes, one of my favorite being "The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you" and "I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right".
5. Books normally don't make me cry (movies do), but this one... really did. After reading I kept staring at a blank wall for some minutes, speechless.
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