I enjoyed The Book Thief, once I got into it. Didn't realise the author was only 11!

May give RR a try after I've finished my current book

Have finished RR and thought it was fantastic

Loved the style it was written in

Thought it conveyed so much about the characters and the era and the lives they had to inhabit

God, how miserable

Would highly recommend it to others

Have started on Book Thief now and so far so good (just started though)

I can spell Thief btw .

I read RR but I think that I was too influenced by being aware of but niot having seen the recent film. I usually like to imagine my own characters but I just kept thinking of Kate and Leo which spoilt it a bit for me.

I did like the truth at the heart of it, the struggle with thinking that you are special and realising that your life is just like the lives of many, many others and that your wildest dreams are unlikely to be fulfilled, especially once you have had children, and how for many that is a very uncomfortable realisation.

I bought the Book Theif on Monday but I've yet to start it, I'm finishing "The Great Lover" first but I'm not gripped by that tbh.

RR is brilliant

Not read the other

Have only read Revolutionary Road and it's superb... you wont be disappointed.

Thoroughly enjoyed The Book Thief.
So did dh and dd1 (18). Found it very moving and unusual being told by a different portrayal of Death personified (he is mostly detached but not always).

Didn't like BT, in fact didn't even bother reading to end of it. I thought Boy in Striped Pyjamas better child's eye view of that period.

Read both. Enjoyed RR far more (although it is a bit sad!)

Read both. Enjoyed RR far more (although it is a bit sad!)