2008-05-10 Thief of time......

Considering all the 5 star reviews this book has I'm really left wondering what all those people found in this book. I've just finished it and wish I hadn't bothered. It's a slow paced, unchallenging and thoroughly predictable meander through the lives of ordinary people in Germany in WW2 which fails to really tell you anything interesting about war or death.

What a missed opportunity - if Death was to write a philosophy book about the lives and deaths of human beings in wartime I'd expect him to have something much more significant to say than this nonsense. Perhaps if the author had tried to engage adults rather than children it would have worked a great deal better than it did.

If you've recently bought a copy and not started reading it then give it to a 12 year old and save your own time for reading something else instead.