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The Picture of Dorian Gray - *SPOILERS*
By Kaseadillla · 122 posts · 548 views
By Kaseadillla · 122 posts · 548 views
last updated Sep 21, 2025 05:00PM
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For years I couldn't even look at the cover of this book, much less read it. I knew little about the Holocaust, and had never been required to read the book in school. I even had nightmares about Anne Frank, whom I knew almost nothing about! Then, as a public librarian, one day a patron asked for the book, and when I picked it up, I knew it was time for me to read it. Once I read it, I was so moved that I had to read more and more and more...
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Reading this book is kind of like watching Titanic. You know the boat sinks, so to speak. Throughout the book, and especially at the end, I recalled my visit to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. Images seen and stories learned there came flooding back. It was a very hard place to visit, and in the end you walk away with shame and abhorrence for what one man can do to another, and also a strong sense of hope because you realize how much the human spirit can endure in spite of brutality. Ann
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The last time I read this book, Anne Frank was older than me. Since we're going to visit the Anne Frank house next month, I thought it would be worthwhile to reread this.
Every time I read a story about this era I'm amazed by the extremes of human nature. How is it possible that people can sink so low as to go along with something like the Holocaust without putting a foot down and saying no? And at the same time, people can be so selfless as to put their lives at risk day in and day out to bring ...more
Every time I read a story about this era I'm amazed by the extremes of human nature. How is it possible that people can sink so low as to go along with something like the Holocaust without putting a foot down and saying no? And at the same time, people can be so selfless as to put their lives at risk day in and day out to bring ...more
I've read this book a number of times, as probably anyone my age has. It was required reading in High School. Each time I read it I get more out of it. I also had to keep putting it down this time through, not so much for what Anne was writing, but the gravity of the whole situation they were in. Knowing that they did not survive their ordeal made it really hard keep moving through at times.
A couple things that struck me was how old Anne seemed to be. Thinking back to what I would have written i ...more
A couple things that struck me was how old Anne seemed to be. Thinking back to what I would have written i ...more
How could a person not be deeply affected by this book?
Mar 07, 2008
Kaitlin
rated it
really liked it
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Feb 28, 2015
Melissa
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it was amazing
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wwi-wwii-books,
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