Talk:The Book Thief

message: This page lists prizes that the book has won. The Booker Prize is listed, but this book was not awarded the Booker prize. If this is referring to another prize it needs to be rectified. These prizes really need references. 81.174.243.233 (talk) 23:24, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I just saw that it states The Book Thief won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2006, but the Wikipedia article on the Commonwealth Writers' Prize has another novel winning that year, and does not have The Book Thief as a winner any year. Needs a double-check please. Keithh (talk) 21:54, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prizes 

message: The book summary is very incoherent. Thus I changed the Max line to earlier. 203.218.103.58 01:47, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book Summary 

message: To anyone who read the book: Would it make sense to link to the Synesthesia article because of the color-emoting-linking thing Death does? The book was recommended to me because of that, but I haven't read it yet, so I don't have an opinion. Tierlieb 11:17, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't personally think so. The color metaphors in the book are fairly random and used only for a sort of surprise effect -- surprise in that they are not really applicable to reality -- far from it. Softlavender (talk) 05:31, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Synesthesia 

message: The only character listed is death and it only plays a small role in the story, other more important charaters should be added. I have added several more major/minor character from the book Coho (talk) 00:10, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Characters

message: there is only one referance for this article more are needed to help prove its reliabilty.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Coho (talk • contribs) 00:41, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Referances

message: Is a student film, especially one with merely related themes, relevant enough to warent a mention in this article? 137.222.211.174 (talk) 23:08, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Film Adaptation

message: I've written a little something I think he might appreciate.  Anyone know any way of contacting him or one of his "people"?  I've already checked his website, but in vain.  Thank you in advance. 70.181.173.246 (talk) 03:58, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Send a letter to him via his publishers.  Their address will be in any of his books.  This is the tried and true method. If anyone knows his details they won't publish them here. --Perry Middlemiss (talk) 04:08, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you so much! This is exactly what I was looking for. 70.181.173.246 (talk) 13:51, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anyone know how I can contact Markus Zusak? 

message: It states in the article that the book was published in 2005. If this is true could someone correct the categories refering to 2003 and 2004 novels? Thank you. Raisin56 (talk) 15:01, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It was published in in Australia first (2005), then US (2006), then UK (2007). See UK publishers website and Amazon blurb--Plad2 (talk) 06:34, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of publication 

message: Why does the article tell us that she dies in the end? Way to ruin the book. --216.106.111.55 (talk) 21:21, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. If you don't want to know that end, you probably shouldn't read the article. PrincessofLlyr royal court 04:53, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: She dies of old age... so I hardly call that a spoiler, I mean everybody dies at some point :P  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.141.153.63 (talk) 16:54, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

text: I mean, considering the book almost serves as its own spoiler (telling you that certain characters are going to die long before it happens, etc.) I don't have too much of a problem with this. Besides, Wikipedia is not meant to be spoiler free. Don't come here to read the summary if you haven't finished the book and don't want spoilers :P  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.108.81.43 (talk) 18:00, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revealing the end.  

message: The article is unbalanced, lots of people did not like this book, me included. For me its soft war porn for Jews. Im going to hunt for reliable neg refs. --HumusTheCowboy (talk) 05:46, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Negative Reviews

message: The article uses "adopted" and "fostered" interchangeably, referring to the family that took in the protagonist. These are two different things. Which was it? If I knew that I'd correct it. Sylvia A (talk) 22:49, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't read the book, but SparkNotes says "fostered". Note that SparkNotes may have gotten this information from here. Asperous (talk) 08:30, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Adopted or fostered?

message: The article states "we meet Max Vandenburg, a Jew who is being hidden by a German friend name Walter Kugler." Why should the fact that Walter Kugler is German be stressed? Everybody in the book is supposed to be German, it takes place in GERMANY. Nowhere in the article is it mentioned that Vandenburg isn't German, in fact it states the opposite. You do realize that one can be German AND Jewish at the same time? I'm going to change it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.84.175.250 (talk) 21:52, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: German friend?

message: The book summary should look more professional. For example, the second sentence is "Liesel and her brother, Werner Meminger.", which isn't even a full sentence. Many of the paragraphs have extremely short sentences, which aren't exactly fit for Wikipedia. In conclusion, the section looks like it was written by a third grader, so there should be an overhaul. 121.131.24.1 (talk) 01:49, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: "i am haunted by humans" is a huge spoiler!!! those are the last four words of the book!!! why is this in the wikipedia article?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8801:2D00:5FC:8D46:D6FC:4C58:6DAD (talk) 08:53, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: "I am haunted by humans" is five words. Also, Wikipedia is not written to be a spoiler-free encyclopedia.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.108.81.43 (talk) 18:02, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  revealing the end AGAIN 

message: — Assignment last updated by Fursheep98 (talk) 14:59, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Honors English 250HV10

message: Random quotations littered throughout the article hinder reading and clarity Notseans1 (talk) 12:55, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Random quotations