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Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

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claireybee · 15/07/2009 14:52

Oh. My. God.

That's all

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SouthernMeerkat · 15/07/2009 16:47

We've vetoed any more Holocaust/Second World War books in our book group - we seem to have ended up reading an awful lot of them lately. Maybe that's why I hated the Book Thief - it's just the end of a very long line of books with world war as a main theme, a backdrop or a memory.....

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claireybee · 15/07/2009 15:03

I deliberately didn't read anything about it before reading it so the ending came as a complete shock to me.

I'm not sure it was exactly an accurate representation but thought provoking all the same.

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UnquietDad · 15/07/2009 14:57

Yes, it's not exactly cheerful summer reading.

I'm fed up with endless books about the Holocaust, to be honest.