The Reader

This book was very intriguing and extremely well written. I've never read anything by Schlink or even heard of him for that matter but I think I would read some of his other work now. I found myself not able to put the book down. It is a quick read and definitely worth reading. I'd like to see how the book was portrayed on film. I highly recommend this book.

A good read. But disturbing in many places: makes you think about the awfull times that ordinary people had to endure. Then the aftermat of the war on ordinary people too and how it changed them all for ever . At the same time ,how a yougher generation could not come to terms with the history.

Bought this book together with the Spanish edition of the same title¨for my Spanish study. Because the story is cut in short sections, it was great and covenient for my language study. However more than my initial intention, the story of The Reader touched my mind at the deepest place. For one reason, I witnessed a similar incident in a war tribunal in Japan after the world war ll. It is a part of irony of human history, but the book described well while helping my Spanish study.

...I would just have loved to know more about Hannah's background, her family, how she grew up. But, maybe that was intentional on the author's part, for Hannah to remain a mystery. Recommended read.

the beginning of the book had me captivated and I loved the twist in the middle. I simply gave the reader a 4 star rating because of the failure to hold my attention till the very end. a great story none the less that I would recommend to others.

This is a very intelligent and well written book. It is a story about pride, power, love, cruelty, and prejudice set shortly after the second world war in Germany. It's a tragedy in which we are capable of playing all of its characters. It contains valuable lessons for us all.

the book is very straight forward. the twist is the holocaust n the responsibility of being involved n not involved. i have a feeling the movie will be more graphic about the horrors of the holocaust. the book talked about a man's feelings for a woman who was a guard in one of the camps. she was human n paid a price for that.

I felt much more of a personal connection with the characters instead of a metaphorical view of the struggles war victims and perpetrators alike must have felt.

I was captivated and the moral issues addressed really gets you thinking.

This book will have a permanent space in my library - have already recommended it to my friends as a 'must read' book. It is profoundly moving. What an excellent teaching tool this would be for students, for history buffs, for anyone trying to define 'MORALITY'. I cannot remember the last book that had such an impact and felt so true to it's form. This is a book whose message goes past World War II, it is universal and expresses important thoughts without preaching.

I read approximately 60 percent sporadically not certain I wanted to continue. Too many philosophical innuendos that seemed to lead nowhere. Once I had read past the trial, I couldn't put the book. My judgement of the protagonists took several "about faces".

This fascinating tale induces moral reflection and exposure to unusual patterns of thinking, reasoning, and acting. The Reader's unusual structure keeps the reader enticed while simultaneously estranging them from the book in order to keep the reader in reality just enough to contemplate it's messages. The Reader scores numerous social and logical pathways concerning behavior including love, infatuation, loyalty, the affects of maturing members of a relationship on said relationship, alienation, duty, moral responsibility, and devotion. This book is simultaneously fascinating, morally reflective, and moving. I would recommend that this book be read by all individuals who want more than a simple story from a work of literature.

Excellent book, the story is good and catch you from the very first moment. It is well written and it is s a congruent story, does not have unfilled spaces between chapters. The topic is controversial but I think that the ethical issues presented are fairly well and managed. For me there are two clear messages that we can get from this book, one is that at the end, every decision and action we make, it has consequences with ones you have to live, and the second message is that justice is not always something easy to give and the context of the scenary could even make more complex to apply this concept

Although set in an earlier time and in another country, I found it very easy to follow. Although the author paints a vivid picture with description and emotion you aren't lost in large amounts of detail. Very good!