I loved it.

I LOVED it, as did everyone in my book club. I can't listen to books. I loose interest rather quickly. I have to read it.
Oh, and my book club is 8 very diverse women.

I'm so glad that you asked this question, as I had a very difficult time getting into it, too. I put it down and started reading something else but will give it another try.

This is only the second book I've given up on in my life. Well, not yet. 30 more mins to renew my interest , then on to something better.

Last week I saw a movie, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, with my family. I enjoyed it . It was quite silly and my mom didn't enjoy it like I did. There were several references to other movies etc, in it. I thought possibly mom didn't know about those connections and of course about Ben Stiller himself. That's how I feel about this book. Like I'm missing a part of the puzzle.

Try "The Discovery" , by Dan Walsh. Wonderful book!

I loved the Book Thief, I read it when it first came out. I also read the secret Life Of Walter Mitty, in HS~~~so this must be a modern day version of it. It was done as a short story, I guess they are just using the title and adding their own version of it. I hate when they do that!!

Without a doubt , a new version!

After reading the reviews, Discovery sounds like a book I'd like. Thanks !

I couldn't get a handle on the storyteller in "The Book Thief."
I figured my mind was just not ready for that book!
The movie version is either in theaters now or about to be.
I'm wavering on whether to give the book another shot or see the movie.
(I also wavered on "Sarah's Key" -- then saw the movie version instead. But we forever wonder what was in the book -- and the author's original intent -- that the movie skipped over or changed dramatically...)

Yea, the storyteller, or death or something I don't get. What is "its" purpose or role. What is it doing in the book?

I saw the movie recently. I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I thought I would.

I too gave up on it. Just couldn't get into it even though I really wanted to......I hate not finishing books but figure if they don't hold my interest, that is time I've wasted when I could have been reading something fascinating.

I liked the book. Not so much the movie. Now reading Stephen King's Doctor Sleep. It's about the kid from The Shining, who has grown up now. I just started it.

I finished the book, but didn't enjoy it either.

I loved it too!!!

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My 12 y/o granddaughter liked the book but her mother found it long and boring. DH and I loved the movie we did not read the book. Not a book that would interest me to read, but we adored the movie - Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson and the young girl (don't know her name) were just wonderful.

Reminds me of "Heidi" -- another book for children -- only set in a time of war, with Death as a larger character. The movie got some reviews that noted predictable, simplistic characters, especially the kindly father figure. You can actually find this book in the 'young adult' section of the library.

I read and watched "Sarah's Key". Not my favorite in either version.

Now I am stumped trying to remember the title of a book I read only a few months ago, also with a WWII setting. One character is a girl sent away from Berlin to live with her great-uncle towards the end of WWII. She isn't the main character, but her story has a realistic portrayal of the end of the war and Germans surviving guilt and deprivation. Anybody know the title? (Central character is a Londoner, raised by *his* uncle to be a cat burglar -- participates in the black market as a soldier in Berlin -- is recruited years later to get a woman out of East Berlin via a tunnel.)

It's "Then We Take Berlin" by John Lawton. Who knew Google could find a book given so little information!