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The book is written by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel. An American Jewish writer from Romania and also, an Auschwitz survivor. Everything in the books screams that the author remembers everything as it was yesterday. Some of the atrocities witnessed by him which he mentioned in the book are so heinous, it will leave you thinking for quite some time.
The book is edited by his wife Marion and a few chapters were added. One such chapter in the end is the speech Elie gave at his Nobel Prize acc ...more
The book is edited by his wife Marion and a few chapters were added. One such chapter in the end is the speech Elie gave at his Nobel Prize acc ...more
Very sad, graphic, eye opening book, book. Important to have these books in publication, although pesonally I have a hard time reading them. It's so hard to imagine humanity so acceptably dark and cruel to one another, for no reason at all. THis book literally made me physically ill, that's how real it was, but that's how real it was. I read this book and all my probems turn to dust and all my complaints shrink to nothing. THis book is a ery quick read btw, finished it in a coulple hours, but ve
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A Dark Tale
I found myself deeply, deeply moved to my very core. I find it hard to believe that one group of people can lack the heart, the depth of feeling and the compassion to commit such atrocities, such barbarous cruelty and inhumane evil on another group of people. Yet, I know not only did it happen but it continues to happen. This is a call to arms, a call to prevent holocaustic events from ever happening again. We need to answer that call to arms.
I found myself deeply, deeply moved to my very core. I find it hard to believe that one group of people can lack the heart, the depth of feeling and the compassion to commit such atrocities, such barbarous cruelty and inhumane evil on another group of people. Yet, I know not only did it happen but it continues to happen. This is a call to arms, a call to prevent holocaustic events from ever happening again. We need to answer that call to arms.
I feel strange saying I liked this book. It's heartbreaking. I think it's something everyone needs to read, both to keep something like this from happening again, and to know something about human nature. We like to pretend that terrible things, things so awful our minds revolt, haven't happened, at least until we have enough distance from them that they're safely in the past. We can never face the beasts right in front of us. This is something we need to overcome, and this book helps us see it,
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