Markus Zusak created a best seller when he wrote 'The Book Thief'. You know what’s strange about the book? It’s told by Death. Right at the beginning Death tells us that the most painful part of his work is looking at `the survivors’ - the ones who are left behind. According to Death, it is difficult to watch the suffering of the people who have lost their loved ones. The one who dies is free from all this pain. And hence, Death is `haunted by humans’. What an unusual phrase. Browsing through Shmoop gave me such helpful guidelines to appreciate the book from various aspects.

I have read so many books and the best thing about that is is that I am still young and I have a lot more time to read even more epic books. By far, The Book Theif by Markus Zusak has taken the cake for the most memorable and beautiful novel of all time. I can see that this novel will be around for generations and go down in literature as one of the greatest classics of all time. This book is written in Death's perspective during the Holocaust, but the reader does not go into the battlefields. We instead read about the wars going on inside the german streets where a girl, Leisel lives. She has lost her mother and her brother and all she has of them both is a book she stole at the time of her brother's death: The Gravedigger's Handbook. Leisel is illiterate, but with the help of Hans Hubermann she learns the value and strentgh of words. There is so much that this novel offers to a reader, not just as a good read, but as a life lesson. I suggest this book be read by everyone possible. When I read it the first time, I immediately went back to the first page and started over. It is difficult, nearly impossible, to part with these characters. This book is too much of a good thing to go unread. --- Enthusastic Reader, Lit Circ