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This is NOT really the book to be reading on a plane ride to Florida. It just seemed wrong...aside from the fact that I kept crying and people probably thought I was nuts.
Everyone should be required to read this at some point. Not just to learn about the horrors these people endured but to be encouraged by the triumph of the human spirit and the acts of love and compassion that can be seen even in the darkest of circumstances.
Everyone should be required to read this at some point. Not just to learn about the horrors these people endured but to be encouraged by the triumph of the human spirit and the acts of love and compassion that can be seen even in the darkest of circumstances.
This is a horrific truth of what transpired in the death camps during Nazi Germany. This is not for the faint of heart. A compelling story told by Elie Wiesel, who thankfully lived to tell his story, however gruesome it may be. If you start this book, you will not put it down. You will not EVER forget what lies on the pages of this novel and you will never be the same.
This was, of course, a heartbreaking book. An excellent translation and a page turner. A tribute to the ideal that to forget our history often leads us to repeat it. Wiesel eloquently states more than this in his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize for this work.
This is not really a review, because this book is truly beyond that, but my thoughts and questions about this important book. I am also writing this with the knowledge that a natural confusion, while trying to make sense of this horrifi ...more
This is not really a review, because this book is truly beyond that, but my thoughts and questions about this important book. I am also writing this with the knowledge that a natural confusion, while trying to make sense of this horrifi ...more
What a powerful book. Short, sharp and to the point. No over-dramatisation, no made for movie dramatic storyline, just one boys account of his time in Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
The author won the Nobel Peace prize (not sure what for yet) and this book is one of the best I have read about the concentration camps of World War II.
He does not try to make a hero of himself, in fact, he choses to point out the times when he was a coward and did not stand up for his father and fellow man.
He does not was ...more
The author won the Nobel Peace prize (not sure what for yet) and this book is one of the best I have read about the concentration camps of World War II.
He does not try to make a hero of himself, in fact, he choses to point out the times when he was a coward and did not stand up for his father and fellow man.
He does not was ...more
This is an extraordinary book that everyone must read at least once in their life. Haunting and grim though Wiesel's story may be, his writing nevertheless is inspiring. I truly believe that reading this book can make us all better humans.
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My wife is an English teacher for the local high school and this is required reading this year. I wasn't impressed with the introduction, but continued anyway. Kind of glad I did. It was a journal that was kept by the author as he made his way through the concentration camps as he grew up. It was moving at times and never did my interest sway. Nice quick read.
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