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  <title><![CDATA[Night]]></title>
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  <default_description>In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir &lt;i&gt;Night&lt;/i&gt;, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elie Wiesel]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/>There is little that freaks me out more than the Holocaust.  And I'm not belittling it at all with the phrase 'freaks me out.'  Growing up in the 1970s and 80s, I felt sufficiently desensitized enough by television violence to be able to gage how often I need to shake the jiffy pop and r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28685186">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has garnered so many five-star reviews and deals with such important subject matter that it almost feels like an act of heresy to give it a mere four stars. Yet that is exactly what I'm going to do, for while <em>Night</em> is a chilling account of the Holocaust and the dehumanisation and brutalisa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18656659">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10318129">
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 07 07:00:14 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What can I say that hasn't already been said?<br/><br/>This book is the newer translation, with some clarifications to the chronology of people and events, with introductions by Wiesel himself and the man who fought to have the book published, Francois Mauriac.<br/><br/>The prose is in a relativ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10318129">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12357379">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jan 12 16:51:59 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Night, was possibly one of the worst books I've ever read. I was suprised when I logged on to find, Five star reviews of this book. Yeah, so it was written by a holocaust survivor. It doesn't make it well written. From a literary standpoing, purely. It was terrible. As Ms. Hawley would say, It lacke...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12357379">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6926979">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 27 21:48:26 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 27 21:51:33 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[How come there are people in this world who questioned that NAZI and holocaust really happened in the past?!!!!<br/><br/>Come on...<br/>There are a lot of fact, stories and people who try to forget the nasty horrible moment which happened to them.<br/>History is the past, which we never can chan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6926979">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10592804">
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 17 17:57:28 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 19 09:49:55 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I teach this book yearly, but my students seemed distant from the true reality of the story. When I use the Holocaust Museum's interactive of Lola Rein's dress, it hits them. Real people, real history. The immediacy of the tragedy that was Wiesel's then comes to life in a way that a junior or senior...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10592804">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3310947">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jul 22 19:41:46 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had put off reading this story for a variety of reasons, main among them that I knew what I would be facing, and was eager to find an excuse not to. After having been to the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany, the images of the now-dead ovens still linger somewhere in the recesses of my mind, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3310947">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42279251">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[EVERY SINGLE PERSON.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jan 22 13:27:17 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/>I loved this book. I loved the honesty, the horror, &amp; the truth that was revealed, by this amazing person.<br/><br/>I had to read this book for my English class, &amp; boy, my English class somehow found HUMOR behind this book. I was thoroughly agitated by their finding this funny. NOTHING...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42279251">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22017023">
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  <read_at>Wed May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jul 03 11:15:47 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If there is one book genre I dislike is biographies, in general I find biographies too suspicious, after all how do I know the writer kept a neutral view of his subject? And I find auto-biographies self serving, how many times you find page after page of the whining of people who paint a picture of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22017023">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41822120">
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  <date_added>Sun Jan 04 06:43:54 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[We used this book for a class I was co-teaching which attempted to measure learning outcomes of community college students. It's an excellent book for getting discussions going and seeing how students relate to events of which they have no experience. As a holocaust book, however, I think there are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41822120">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48622039">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Elie Wiesel's &quot;Night&quot; is such a widely read book, there's no need to describe the book itself. I'll instead focus here on my thoughts on rereading it for the first time since, if I remember correctly, I was a teenager. While I grew up hearing Holocaust survivors speak at my Hebrew school, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48622039">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12295286">
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    <name><![CDATA[Heather]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 11 19:21:03 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 06 16:03:24 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book almost entirely in one sitting.  It felt like seeing a horrible accident that had just taken place, or watching craniofacial surgery on television--you want to close your eyes and block it out, but part of you just can't turn away.  I know I will be haunted by some of the things I r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12295286">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2698684">
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 04 01:35:00 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I might too stingy in giving stars for this book. A friend of mind recommended the book to me. My rating for this book doesn't mean that I discredited the book or dislike it. The book is good, and i love memoirs, especially those slice of life true story with past experiences, no matter if it's good...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2698684">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1526098">
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Elie Wisel (won '86 Nobel Peace Prize) a Holocaust survivor tells of the unending hell he and his father (and family) endured at the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.  Only Elie makes it out alive, and surpisingly, his father lasts throughout the year, or so, of sheer torment. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1526098">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Elie Wiesel (Night),<br/><br/>  When the French writer Francois Mauriac met to Elie Wiesel ( A Jew survival from the concentration camp of Auschwitz, during the World War II), Mauriac immediately recognized in the cold gaze of Wiesel, the living testimony of heroism, human survival, and unconditio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47667068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a heart wrenching true account of a Hungarian Jewish boy going through the Holocaust.  One can't even imagine the horrible things that normal, typical human beings are capable of - how they act when it comes down to their survival: trampling on dying men, beating up and taking food from men ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42387694">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was short but very difficult to get through. It isn't the sort of thing one likes to read after a hard day at work. It tells the true story of Elie Wiesel, a Romanian Jew who, at age 15,  survived the horrors of four Nazi concentration camps between 1944 and 1945. And it ended abruptly whi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15193925">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was interesting to contrast Wiesel's experience in Nazi concentration camps with some of the other accounts that I have read.  Specifically, Viktor Frankle's account kept flashing up.  These two individuals had very different responses to their experiences-- Frankle learned and grew from his horr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24400384">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a hard one to rate.  Within the holocaust genre it deserves higher marks, as it was an impressive story-telling of a monstrous time in history.  However, in general, set against all other genres that I enjoy reading, I had to mark it with 3 stars. <br/>This book is difficult to read, heart...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13099311">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I believe this is a book that everyone needs to read at least once in their lifetime.  That said, it is not an easy book to read--it is horrifying and and powerful and transfixing all at the same time.  I felt Ellie Wiesel's raw pain due to the things he and his family experienced in concentration c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12726653">more...</a>]]></body>
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