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3.65 AVERAGE
3.65 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I really enjoyed this book. Found it very interesting to feel the perspective of the younger German generation after the war - as well as the topic of literacy. Amazing how such a large story can be told in so few pages.
I just finished this book and I can't imagine how the movie could possibly portray the lyrical genius in these pages. I'm still looking forward to seeing the movie!
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Odd read, but that may be because it was translated from German and just didn't translate the same way it reads in German.
I understand there is a movie adaptation of this. It will be interesting to see that.
I understand there is a movie adaptation of this. It will be interesting to see that.
If I would have sat down with this book on a Sunday afternoon, I would have been planted to the spot until I finished. It was a very quick read that completely engrossed me. I saw the movie a week ago and I usually like to read the book first and I wish I had because some things would have made more sense/had more meaning, but both movie and book were on the same par: excellent. The book gave us more of an insight to things, but the movie expressed a bit more of what Hanna was like. Excellent book that really made me think.
Interesting novel. The main character mentions during the course of the text that a particular book he had read was written from such a distance that it was difficult to become involved. I got the same feeling reading Bernhard Schlink's novel. It was written from such a distance that it was difficult to become invested in the characters, their relationships, and the events of the story. It was a good story and as such kept interested enough to see it through to the end. It was, in my opinion, a commentary on humanity and how one's actions can unknowingly (or maybe even knowingly)put into action a sequence of events that will return to continually mess with one's life far into the future.