Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

197 reviews

flatstrahmly's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Grief, Racial slurs, Violence, Child death, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Xenophobia

amaya_s's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Antisemitism, Death, Child death, War, and Genocide

Moderate: Grief

painteed_12's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

"Ela não teria dificuldade em chamar-lhe papá."

QUE LIVRO. 
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Decidi ler este livro porque ia a Berlim, apesar de apenas o acabar depois do fim da viagem, foi um enriquecimento histórico necessário.
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Este livro conta-nos a história de Liesel, uma rapariga nova que vai viver na rua Himmel, porque a sua mãe não tem condições para cuidar dela. Aí conhece os novos pais dela, Rudy, e mais pessoas que vão mudar a sua vida, e que vão ver a sua vida mudada por ela. 
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Uma coisa que gostei imenso neste livro foi que a história inteira é narrada pela morte, apesar de ela dar spoilers... É uma perspetiva que nos dá uma visão diferente da história destas pessoas e desta época no geral, combinada com a perspetiva de uma rapariga mais nova que gosta de roubar livros e cresce durante a 2ª guerra mundial.
Também gostei bastante que no livro o autor não tentou romantizar ou deixar mais "soft" a história. O final destruiu-me. E não só o final, outras partes também. Claro que houve momentos mais felizes, mas o autor retratou algumas cenas da guerra como deviam mesmo ser, traumatizantes e horríveis. 
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Este livro devia ser um clássico, se já não o é. 
Quero mesmo ver o filme agora.

"Matou-se por querer viver."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Antisemitism, Violence, and Child death

Moderate: Death of parent

elmmegan's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War

Minor: Violence and Gore

cecinamo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Absolutely beautiful, but very sad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, Misogyny, War, Child death, Antisemitism, Blood, Torture, Violence, Child abuse, Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Genocide, Murder, and Physical abuse

artmuseam's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

truly heart shattering and emotional. this book knew exactly how to set fire to my emotions because at the end of the book i could barely read the damn words through my tears. the narration threw me off at first, just because it felt almost satirical, but i got used to it by part 2, and i seriously fell in love with all the main characters. it was so intimate to where i thought i was a part of the family and the town, and i especially loved the emphasis on how powerful words and stories are. this book killed me—in the best way possible. 4.5/5 stars <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Antisemitism

amgarrido's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Death of parent, Violence, War, Genocide, Xenophobia, Racism, Death, and Murder

octagon's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Antisemitism, Suicide, Death, Grief, and Police brutality

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Genocide, and Violence

Minor: Child abuse

lexilovesreadingandlaufey's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I have never cried while reading a book before, but this got me. I cried and this book will forever be in my heart. I, myself, am "Jewish Blood" and it breaks my heart reading this story about Liesel. I definitely recommend to anyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Grief, Genocide, War, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Child abuse, and Suicide

a_novi's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

This story is amazing, it’s not a feel-good story. It’s tragic and heart wrenching. There’s realism in the telling of a WWII story from the perspective of a young German girl who was too young to understand the evil involved. We watch her grow and learn of it though, and as the reader we can feel the pain, agony, fear, and grief if only just a fraction. It is even more nauseating to read this during the genocide of Palestine. The bombings still haven’t stopped and I can’t help but relate it to this story. How dare we as humans allow history to repeat in this way? The scene in this book when she steals a banned book from a book burning inspired me to finally research the banned books in my country. As expected, I’m appalled. Everyone should read this book and everyone should resist censorship and fascism. Everyone thinks if they were alive during the holocaust  that they would have hid a jew in their basement like the Hubermans but the truth is: whatever we are doing right now while we are watching a genocide take place today in Gaza is exactly what we would be doing. The answer is: not enough. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, Death, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, Cursing, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Child death, Death of parent, Excrement, Grief, and Antisemitism