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    <body><![CDATA[I was really disappointed. The book is filled with trite philosophical diatribe and its digressions leave one wanting to return to the main plot. The ending is terribly predictable. It is a nice allegorical attempt...but I wouldn't read it twice.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Pros: </strong><br/>* Beautiful writing.<br/><br/><strong>Cons:</strong><br/>* To me it seemed more like a philosophical discussion than an interesting story and that is not my cup of tea. <br/><br/><strong>Other: </strong>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting in looking at how people deal with being faced with death and extreme situations, but i really didn't like it.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Khas Elie Wiesel sekali... Gelap, riweuh, and sophisticated!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I should have been in a more contemplative mood to read this.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Distinguished author, Holocaust survivor, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel continues his exploration of guilt, innocence, history, and memory, but with a new twist. Wiesel moves the battle for the human soul from the Holocaust to the rarefied setting of a Connecticut parlor. There, five strangers, stranded during a snowstorm, find themselves manipulated by a sadistic host who calls himself the Judge and declares that one of them will die before morning. Through the long night, the characters take stock of their lives and indentify what inspires them to cling to life. There is George, the archivist who has discovered a dangerously revealing document and whose &quot;ambition it is to evoke the memory of memory&quot;; Yoav, the Israeli commando who believes that &quot;each man was his own executioner and his own victim&quot;; and Razziel, who lost the memory of his childhood to torturers and was on his way to meet the man who could unlock his past. While the characterizations are uneven (Bruce, the playboy, is stock stuff and the Judge's deification of evil is not entirely convincing), Wiesel's philosophical fable is powerful and thought provoking, and increasingly relevant in an age concerned with terrorism and the questions of good and evil. <em>--Lesley Reed</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book very much; however, I felt that it was a bit confusing due to all the different stories intertwined together. It definitely makes you think about what you're living for. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Such a great book - in my opinion, one of Wiesel's best. There is so much going on in this book - between character development and symbolism, that the book takes on a life of its own. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Distinguished author, Holocaust survivor, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel continues his exploration of guilt, innocence, history, and memory, but with a new twist. Wiesel moves the battle for the human soul from the Holocaust to the rarefied setting of a Connecticut parlor. There, five strangers, stranded during a snowstorm, find themselves manipulated by a sadistic host who calls himself the Judge and declares that one of them will die before morning. Through the long night, the characters take stock of their lives and indentify what inspires them to cling to life. There is George, the archivist who has discovered a dangerously revealing document and whose &quot;ambition it is to evoke the memory of memory&quot;; Yoav, the Israeli commando who believes that &quot;each man was his own executioner and his own victim&quot;; and Razziel, who lost the memory of his childhood to torturers and was on his way to meet the man who could unlock his past. While the characterizations are uneven (Bruce, the playboy, is stock stuff and the Judge's deification of evil is not entirely convincing), Wiesel's philosophical fable is powerful and thought provoking, and increasingly relevant in an age concerned with terrorism and the questions of good and evil. <em>--Lesley Reed</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I think it was a little above me.<br/>I kept reading to get to the meat.<br/>And then it was over. I missed the meat.<br/>I think there's a lot there I wasn't contemplating...Doh!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners&quot; From The Judges.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't bother.  It was confusing and went nowhere.  I had high expectations, considering the respected author and &quot;Night.&quot;  I was disappointed.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel bad giving a poor review to anything by Elie Wiesel, but in this case I thought the idea for the novel was better than end result.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book starts out so good and spooky, but the end felt like a little bit of a cop out.  Definitely worth reading.]]></body>
    
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