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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - Community Reviews back

by John Boyne
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ѦѺ rated it 9 years ago
June's Reading Challenge by Sock Poppet at Play is called Six It Is. for this month, the prompts are to read a book:1 ~ with six words in the title.2 ~ whose author has six letters in first or last name.3 ~ that was published in a six year (ex. 1776, 1868, 1967, 2006).4 ~ that is the sixth (or 16...
BagEndBooks
BagEndBooks rated it 9 years ago
The story told in this book was simplified a little too much for my taste. Bruno and Gretel were too innocent. Bruno was supposed to be nine, Gretel twelve or thirteen. They would have been bought up to hate Jews, so Bruno would have had to learn to see through his anti-Semitism to view Shmuel as a ...
A History Nut's Romantic State of Mind
With such a gripping historical background, I expected more. Maybe the book was intended for young readers. It lacks the depth I love in a book.
Reading is my ESCAPE from Reality!
Reading is my ESCAPE from Reality! rated it 10 years ago
"The story of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the jacket, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about. If you do start...
Toni
Toni rated it 10 years ago
This is an unforgettable and a small wonder of a book. A Holocaust drama that explores the horror of WW11 seen through the eyes of Bruno, the eight year old son of the commandant at a concentration camp called “Out With” and of a Jewish inmate of the same age called Shmuel. The strength is in the...
Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents
Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents rated it 10 years ago
Wow what a story this is. How precious life is. No matter who you are there is something to gain from reading this. It's amazing, with no preset notions, how kids see things in life.
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 10 years ago
bookshelves: autumn-2010, published-2006, room-101, historical-masturbation, abandoned Read on October 31, 2010 I should say at the start that I haven't seen the film.Home audioLater (but not too much later).. I find this detestable. There are enough real examples of the holocaust without needing...
Read All The Things! Reviews
Read All The Things! Reviews rated it 10 years ago
Well, that was depressing.I've read enough WWII novels to know that they don't usually have happy endings, but this one blindsided me. Possibly because it was in the young adult section of the bookstore, and the endings of young adult books are usually more hopeful. Maybe I missed it, but I couldn't...
The Symmetrical Bookworm
The Symmetrical Bookworm rated it 11 years ago
Too many bad reviews from people whose reviews I trust. Hell no.
SakuraMorimoto
SakuraMorimoto rated it 11 years ago
The Accidental ReaderThis is another book that I read during my experiment with World War 2 Literature and I have to say that I am little dissapointed. I made the mistake and watched the movie first before reading this book and usually the term ''the book is always better than the movie'' is true al...
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