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★☆☆☆☆
Flat, stereopype, too much profanity
It is totally beyond me why this book getting such good reviews. As a German I find the flat stereotypes unbearable. The author inserts German words all the time, probably to make the novel more authentic, however very often his vocabulary is used incorrectly, is misspelled or grammatically wrong. There is profanity from start to end, it is German profanity and maybe the English reader isn't feeling the impact because it is not his native language, but imagine someone writing the f... word all the time and cursing on the lowest social level, that gets old very quickly. The book is filled with typical 3rd Reich, Nazi, Bavarian stereotypes, the writing style wants to be different and extraordinary, but having said everything above, it is flat out boring, insulting and annoying. The story has been told a million times already, so I think don't waste your money and time.
September 2013 · Books
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The Book Thief
4.6★ · 66,459 ratings, as of 2023