This book is FILLED with emotion. It is incredible. It is about a girl who, at first cannot read, then, slowly learns how to weild words to her liking. She steals books from the mayor's wife, her foster father hides a Jew in his basement (remember, this is during Nazi Germany), and in the end, she is, literally, the only one left standing in the rubble. At the end of this book, I started to tear up on the inside. Throughout the ENTIRE book, you are moved through the "grim reaper's" rendition of "The Book Theif's" life. It captivates EVERYONE that starts to read the first paragraph of the book. I bought it because I needed a book to last me 3 weeks for my holliday, and I figured it would take me a long time to get through a five hundred page book. But it is exactly 7 days since I've had the book, and I have finished it. Currently, I have just passed it on to my mom who, every now and then has to stop and read a little bit of it to me because she loves it so much. (My mom is the kind of person who can't get past the first paragraph, and she's had it for about 10 minutes, and is on page 33.) Anyone who DOESN'T buy this book would be selling themselves short. Everyone deserves this book. This is the best book I have ever read.