The Thief

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Summary: The Thief
Review: The Thief is a very good book and I really enjoyed it. It was very interesting and very well-planned out. I liked it because it was set in Greece and I learned about a new place. The character Gen is so fun to read about. He is a great hero and I was so happy to see that there is a sequel to the book too!! If you like adventure and mystery you will love The Thief.

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Summary: The Book that Should Have Won the NB Medal
Review: A fast-paced, cleverly written adventure about a fictionous world and a clever thief, who is George Clooney in Ocean's Eleven or Piers Brosnon in The Thomas Crown Affair. Gen, having been in prison for six months for bragging for being able to steal anything, is released by the King's Magus: the smartest man in the kingdom who is determined to get a legendary stone that he wants Gen to steal. If Gen can fetch the stone, he will be granted his freedom. However, cocky and clever Gen has his own ideas about how this plan is going to work...

The PERFECT novel to read. Exciting and deliciously witty, Whalen Turner keeps us reading as fast as possible. A twist ending awaits in the last pages of the book. When your done with that, you should definitely go pick up the sequel, The Queen of Attolia. -Lia

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Summary: Wonderful!!!!!!
Review: I had more fun reading this book than any other, ever. Eugenides is such a great character, you will get to love him by the end. His claim is that he can steal anything, and in this book he must prove it. He is telling the story in a witty, mischevious tone, and he reveals many things to the reader, but unexpectedly also has many secrets. This is not a children's book, in fact I think teenagers and adults would apprectiate it more. For anyone who loves a delightful adventure.

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Summary: A Teacher's Take on The Thief
Review: I read this book for a young adult literature class I teach and couldn't put it down. It has an exotic setting, intriguing characters, and a well-crafted plot. I think teens who like adventure and fantasy would enjoy this book.

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Summary: What a teen thinks
Review: It was a great fanasty book, I would recomend it for age 9 or 10 and up, I would rate it PG.

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Summary: REALLY great book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I loved this book!! I think the main character, Gen, is so neat because he's like a good guy and a bad guy, all at once! This wonderful book takes place in Ancient Greece and is basicly about how Gen is pulled out of prison to go and steal something (I'm not saying what)and then, a big chunk of the book tells about how Gen and four other men travel across three cities to get to the place where Gen has to steal the something, but there's SOOO much more to it! The only thing I don't like about this book is that they use a few mild bad words, but less than this one PG-rated movie I once saw. This is a very well written, VERY awesome, and over all great book that I'd recomend to everyone in the world!

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Summary: A heart-wrenching, heart-warming story
Review: Gen is a young arrogant thief who is captured in the king's treasury. To save his life he must help the king's Magus steal a magical stone that makes its possessor almost invincible. Along with Gen and the Magus go Ambiades and Sophos, the Magus' aristocratic apprentices, and Pol, a soldier. As they travel in secrecy across enemy land, they must learn to overlook their prejudices and rely on one another.

This is an exciting and moving tale about trickery, loyalty, and friendship. Gen is an engaging character, whom I would love to know. More than once I (21 when I read it the first time) found myself in tears over the way Gen was treated or the events in the book.

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Summary: My Favorite Book of All Times
Review: This book was perfect to my expectations. Gen(the thief)and the other characters had very defined personalities. I loved all the twists and turns, and the ending was totally unexpected. Where did Gen ever get so cunning? One thing I've found is it is very hard to describe how wonderful this book is to someone else. I tried and the other person didn't get the feeling of the book at all. You really have to read it to understand.

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Summary: I couldn't put this down!
Review: This is an incredible book!!!! All two hundred and nineteen pages kept me mesmerized, which is something only Jane Austin and Louise Rennison have previously done. As the book jacket says, "Megan Whalen Turner weaves Gen's stories and Gen's story together with style and verve in a novel that is filled with intrigue, adventure, and surprise." The intrigue is supplied by the feud between the magus's apprentice and Gen, adventure fills the entire novel, and as for surprise, the ending heavily supplies that. The myths are entertaining, and when the mood gets a little too heavy, Gen's dry humor lightens things up. He is, in his own words, a very well behaved hammer.

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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: This book, THE THIEF, is extremely well written. There is action and adventure. It is about a Thief (named Gen) who is taken out of Jail by the King's scholar. They are on a journey to get the legendary Stone out of a temple. The temple is only open 4 days of the year. While on the journey the companions have many conflicts (with each other and with others). There also is a twist at the end that basically changes all you knrw of Gen. The twist makes it even more exciting. I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone. It is very very good.