Everyone has said it all. This was a book I could not put down at times or most of the time. It is good to be able to read such a wonderful true story, very emotional writing, the author knows how to keep you interested.
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I saw the movie ten years ago so I thought I knew what to expect from this novel. (By the way, this is a _fictionalized_ account of a story that is, for the most part, true, and is well-researched by the author)This novel is very well written, and full of themes that apply today as much as they did during the holocaust. The thing I like about this story is it forces the reader to examine what makes a man good vs. what makes...
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"Oskar had done nothing astounding before the war and been unexceptional since. He was fortunate, therefore, that in that short fierce era between 1939 and 1945 he had met people who summoned forth his deeper talents." -comment by Emilie Schindler to a German TV documentary crewThis, of course, is the essential mystery of Oskar Schindler. How was it that this charismatic but morally ambiguous...
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[My last review was botched in transmission. Please forgive the resubmission.]The Holocaust is a difficult topic to deal with as subject matter for a work of art; its horrors have been explicitly brought to light countless times in several different formats and knowledge of these horrors has pervaded our society such that nearly everyone has been exposed to them in some way or another. In order to tell an effective story...
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