Sunday, January 20, 2008

The Reader - Bernhard Schlink

A good thought provoking book.

Schlink weaves us a story, with elements of love, loss, secrecy, and coming of age. Tightly packed with moral dilemmas, this book makes you think. How far are you willing to go, to protect your own secrets? How do we judge people in certain situations, only assuming we know all the facts? When is it our responsibility to step in, when someone has chosen a self destructive path?

This book, is relatively short - only 218 pages - but packs a lot of punch in that short time.

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