Saturday, July 18, 2009

The Reader


It wasn't by choise. Oportunity met my financial situation and I've decided to buy it. "The Reader", a book I bought at one of my trips to Goodwill. As suprising it must be, Goodwill stores have excellent used books in good shape and excellent prices. That day, I acquired a bunch and concidentely chose another book about the Holocaust to please myself. I was curious to find out about all the fuzz and all the Oscar's nominations, even though I haven't seen the movie yet.

The story is told in three parts by the main character, Michael Berg. Each part takes place in a different time period in the past. It is polemic and good. The writer, not such much, at least not in my opinion. I expected more passion form a Law Professor, I think.
It is a nice book, if you are not looking for something expensive, exciting and long. You can easily finish it in two days. It took me a week, but I haven't had much time to it lately.