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Book Review of The Reader

The Reader
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Helpful Score: 1


This book was great. It combined the passion and love or lust between two people and what war does to people. It was interesting to me how Hanna, in her guilt over what happened, allowed most of the blame to fall on her in the trial, unwilling to hide anything and willing to take the blame. There was a time when she took the blame for writing a falsified report, even though she couldnt because she was illiterate, because she blamed herself so much that she wanted to be severly punished. While the true main perpetrators got small prison sentences, she got life, but in the end, she succeded and used her experiences bless others lives.