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i am the messenger by markus zusak

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MARKUS ZUSAK
I AM THE MESSENGER

oneyear52books:

Book 17

Title: I Am The Messenger
Author: Markus Zusak 
Date started: 17 July 2011
Date finished: 28 July 2011
Rating: 9/10

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I Am The Messenger

tastedevourchew:

I am the Messenger, Markus Zusak

Stars: 4.5/5

I LOVE THIS MAN. I want to marry his writing. Or him. Either.

Warning: I have two pages filled up on both sides each.

She even touches Jimmy’s face on the photos, and I see what it is to love someone like Milla loved that man. Her fingertips are made of love. When she speaks, her voice is made of love.

Her hair is out and it’s beautiful. her eyes are worth drowning in, her mouth speaks to me.

“No, I’m not a saint, Sophie. I’m just another stupid human.”

Inside, I hear them.

He’s waking her in every moment.

Disturbing her.

Reaching through her and abandoning her at the same time.

He throws her down and takes her and cuts her open. The bedsprings leak— a howling, desperate noise of falling and springing up, even though they don’t want to. Refusal is pointless. Complaint has no use. Some crying crawls to the doorway where I stand. It hobbles out from the gap in the door and lands at my feet.

I ask you:

What would you do if you were me? Tell me. Please tell me!

But you’re far from this. your fingers turn the strangeness of these pages that somehow connect my life to yours. Your eyes are safe. The story is just another few hundred pages of you rmind. For me, it’s here. It’s now.

The Proclaimers thunder through my hea.

Imagine it.

Imagine killing someone to the tune of two Scottish nerds wearing glasses and flattop haircuts. How will I ever listen to that song again? What will I do if it comes on the radio? I’ll think of the night I murdered another man and stole his life with my own hands.

Sometimes people are beautiful.

not in looks.

Not in what they say.

Just in what they are.

Of course you are real— just like any thought or any story. It’s real when you’re in it.

SPOILER

We sink to the floor and Audrey kisses me. her lips join up with mine, and I taste her breath and swallow and lunge for it. It streaks me inside with streams of her beauty. I hold her yellow hair. I touch the smooth skin of her neck, and she keeps kissing me. She wants to.

  

If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe anyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.

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The Messenger by Markus Zusack
4/5

The Messenger is about a guy, Ed. He’s an average person, he has an average job, lives in an average shack, has a less-than-average love live, and it pretty much suck. Until one day, he gets a playing card  with clues on it. These clues lead him to places. The places hold people with problems. Ed, an average guy, is now a messenger. He needs to help all these people and in the end, he sort of helps himself.

Ed is really sad in the beginning. He isn’t loved, his life sucks, and that is how it has always been. But now being a messenger, he has the chance to be somebody. Somebody who matters. Somebody who isn’t worthless. Anybody but ‘Just Ed’. 

The reason I read this book was because it was recommended to me. You can tell a little bit about a person by what sort of books they recommend and which they say are their favorites.

I think a lot of people feel worthless or unimportant. They all want something to happen to them, something strange and exciting. I guess people want to feel special, and they can only do that if something significant occurs in their life. I used to think like that when I was little. This book reminded me of that feeling. But then I realized that there is already so much importance that I’ve done with little things, you just have to pay attention.

So I definitely liked this book. I think anyone feeling down on themselves should read this book for a little inspiration to do something with their life. Just as it was recommended to me, I’d gladly recommend it to anyone else.

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bradleyc123:

This Book. So amazing.

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