Er jeg den eneste i hele verden som ikke liker boken "The Book Thief"? Hvis det er tilfelle, så er det definitvt meg det er noe i veien med.
Men jeg liker den ikke. Jeg er i konstant konflikt med forfatteren. Det andre synes er rørende, synes jeg er pretensiøst og klisjefylt. Det som sies å være historisk interessant synes jeg er velkjent inntil det banale. Magi beskrives på en måte som fjerner magien. Jeg er i villrede. Språket er fylt av klisjeer og overtydelighet. Jeg ser at forfatteren sammenlignes med Kurt Vonnegut - det oppfatter jeg som en fornærmelse mot sistnevnte.
Jeg leser og lider.
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Jeg har faktisk funnet noen (få) brukeranmeldelser på Amazon som har samme oppfatning som meg - jeg er ikke alene!! F.eks. denne:
"If you are looking for an easy read that doesnt require too much thought then this is the book for you. I had read rave review after rave review and found myself very disappointed with the actual book. My problems can be summed up in a couple of points:
1) The characters are all one dimensional. You will know who the good guy is because he will hate Hitler and the Nazis. You will know who the bad guy is because he will be a spit drenched facist. At one point a character gives out about the main character and says that she should be reading Mein Kampf. See now we know to file him under "baddies". There were just too many broad strokes.
2) I hated the writing style. I mean at the start it was a bit of a novelty. Death popping up to point out the important phrases or to tell us that a certain character would have a sticky end in a few months time. This happened so often that I lost track of all the things I had been forewarned about. Most of it was done for shock value. One character's fate in particular was dropped in solely to provoke gasps. But when that character met their fate it didnt live up to what we had been warned about. Sorry for all the vagueness but I really don't want to spoil it for those who havent already read it.
3) It was way too heavy handed. At one point a German does something that paints them in a good light. The following two sentances are:
"Was this Germany? Nazi Germany?"
Why not hand me the sledgehammer so I can hit myself over the head with it instead.
All in all I give it two stars, because as a children's book it is very simple with a nice story about people we like doing nice things. But as an adult piece of fiction it was just way too clunky for me."
Og denne - vi er tydeligvis en liten, men eksklusiv klubb:
"I'm writing this review so the other 2 or 3 people out there who didn't like this book will know they are not the only ones. I was a little hesitant about reading this book in the first place ("ANOTHER book about WWII??"), however, friends, relatives, teachers, strangers in the grocery store, etc were all saying it was pretty much the best book they had ever read, so I figured it had to be at least decent.
Unfortunately (Sorry Mom, I still love you!), this was actually one of the least interesting, least engaging books I've read this year. My biggest problem was with the language: I found it to be empty, fruity, and ultra-pretentious. I have a real problem with authors who throw a bunch of meaningless words together and consider themselves to be poetic geniuses. The story itself, a modestly appealing if slightly hackneyed yarn about a little girl who loves to read, would have benefitted from a more straight-forward storytelling approach instead of being obscured with flowery language.
To the people who found this book to be earth-shattering: I'm sorry.
To the people like me who found this book to be off-putting and banal: You may never get back the 2 hours you wasted on this book, but take heart in the fact that you are not alone."
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