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Book Review of The Reader

The Reader
The Reader
Author: Bernhard Schlink
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Easy read, nice book.
I quickly realized the "secret", but the ending was a bit of a surprise.

What I didn't like is that there are too many passages like:
I don't know why [... someone did something] ... was it because ... or maybe they ... but perhaps ... I'll never know

SO SHUT UP ALREADY !!!! Just say this is what happened, I don't know why, and let us speculate by ourselves. Ok, not quite. Some speculation is ok, but it got tiring.

Raises some "moral questions" (the affair, should you tell someone else's secret, are "The Bad Guys" always bad guys) but mostly left too much for book discussion groups.

Oh, and it had a lot of sex in the first third.

R