Journal Entry 1 by corry000 from Chicago, Illinois USA on Saturday, December 11, 2004

Another copy of this book for trade or release.


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Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 1999: Originally published in Switzerland, and gracefully translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway, The Reader is a brief tale about sex, love, reading, and shame in postwar Germany. Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. He never learns very much about her, and when she disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But, to his horror, he does. Hanna is a defendant in a trial related to Germany's Nazi past, and it soon becomes clear that she is guilty of an unspeakable crime. As Michael follows the trial, he struggles with an overwhelming question: What should his generation do with its knowledge of the Holocaust? "We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable.... Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame, and guilt? To what purpose?"

The Reader, which won the Boston Book Review's Fisk Fiction Prize, wrestles with many more demons in its few, remarkably lucid pages. What does it mean to love those people--parents, grandparents, even lovers--who committed the worst atrocities the world has ever known? And is any atonement possible through literature? Schlink's prose is clean and pared down, stripped of unnecessary imagery, dialogue, and excess in any form. What remains is an austerely beautiful narrative of the attempt to breach the gap between Germany's pre- and postwar generations, between the guilty and the innocent, and between words and silence. 

Journal Entry 2 by corry000 from Chicago, Illinois USA on Saturday, July 07, 2007

I really enjoyed the book. It was a romantic and a little bit sad story of growing up and strange love... 

Journal Entry 3 by darkpunkangel from Barrie, Ontario Canada on Friday, October 05, 2007

Thanks, look forward to reading it! 

Journal Entry 4 by darkpunkangel from Barrie, Ontario Canada on Sunday, November 15, 2009

I really enjoyed reading the book but it was kind of sad towards the end.

RES for camis who took it out of the 1001 Books VBB 

Journal Entry 5 by darkpunkangel at 1001 Books VBB, Virtual Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Released 2 yrs ago (11/24/2009 UTC) at 1001 Books VBB, Virtual Bookbox -- Controlled Releases

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This book is now on its way to Camis, hope you enjoy the book! 

Journal Entry 6 by camis from Tharston, Norfolk United Kingdom on Monday, December 07, 2009

Received safely - thank you! 

Journal Entry 7 by camis from Tharston, Norfolk United Kingdom on Monday, January 18, 2010

A thought-provoking read that gripped me from start to end. Thank you for sharing this. 

Journal Entry 8 by camis at Tharston, Norfolk United Kingdom on Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Sending to Stubee from the BookObsessed 1001 VBB 

Journal Entry 9 by stubee at Bury, Greater Manchester United Kingdom on Monday, July 12, 2010

Thanks Camis, I'll find a new home for this soon. 

Journal Entry 10 by stubee at Bury, Lancashire United Kingdom on Thursday, February 23, 2012

It transpires that I have two copies of this book on my bookshelf. I'll therefore make this one available and I'll be on the look out for anyone that's interested in it. 

Journal Entry 11 by stubee at Norwich, Norfolk United Kingdom on Thursday, March 15, 2012

Released 2 mos ago (3/15/2012 UTC) at Norwich, Norfolk United Kingdom

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Sending to johnevelyn as it on their wishlist. 

Journal Entry 12 by johnevelyn at Norwich, Norfolk United Kingdom on Friday, March 16, 2012

Kindly sent by stubee...