#0012A The Reader - Bernhard Schlink

I had no idea what this book was about. I've never seen the movie and probably will not now. I picked it up because of the NY Times Best Seller List. I mean, it cannot be bad if everyone is buying it. I really beg to differ.
*Spoilers*
One third of the book is about a FIFTEEN year old boy who because a 35 year old's lover. That's right, lover. I really could have just put it down then. I'm not one to reading about things like that, but I'm really big on finishing books I have started unless they were just awful by the middle. Thank goodness, it did not go into real detail about things. The woman has the boy read to her. And then there's a trial which I had a hard time following. The woman went to jail and when the boy grew up he realized that she was illiterate, so he sent her tapes of him reading books. She killed herself in the end, right before she got out of jail and that was the whole story.

Nothing happened in the book. It took me too long to read because I was confused through the trial and ending was abrupt and I really had mixed feelings by that time. I did not really like the book. I mean, I can see why it was made into a movie and got good reviews and what have you. It was stationed during the Nazi reign and she was a guard at a concentration camp. I don't think that should be the only reason why something is popular. Really, they did not go into much about it. The book did not go much into anything. Just my opinion. 2 stars