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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

raphabonaretti's review against another edition

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5.0

É difícil começar a comentar sobre esse livro.
Anne foi uma menina completamente à frente do seu tempo, seus relatos e reflexões são profundos e emocionantes. Inacreditável pensar que um diário escrito por uma menina de 12-14 anos me trouxe muito mais reflexões sobre a vida do que muitos outros livros que já li e que foram escritos por adultos experientes.
Anne tinha o dom das palavras e uma capacidade incrível de analisar o mundo ao seu redor e transpor isso em texto de uma forma única e comovente.
É duro pensar que ela e muitas outras pessoas tiveram que passar por algo tão cruel e desumano. E também que mesmo submetida a tais condições ela conseguiu viver intensamente, ver o lado positivo da vida e carregar as esperança da salvação até o último momento.
Anne temia ser apenas mais uma, temia passar pela vida como uma pessoa qualquer, mas em sua simplicidade ela conseguiu deixar sua marca no mundo e tocar inúmeros corações.

closetpirate's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced

5.0

AB/PB|🇳🇱


Ik besefte me 4 mei dat ik het achterhuis (geloof ik) nog nooit helemaal cover to cover had gelezen, daar moest ik verandering in komen.

Verder kan ik echt niks toevoegen aan wat de afgelopen 75+ jaar over dit boek is gezegd en geschreven, ik ben dankbaar dat de ungesencureerde versie beschikbaar is want Anne had dingen te zeggen en die zijn het waard om te horen/lezen

athousandgreatbooks's review against another edition

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4.0

Paper is more patient than man.

In June of 1942, Anne received a diary for her 13th birthday. And already in July of 1942, she and her family were forced to go into hiding in an office building in Holland. There, on the upper floors, behind a bookcase, was their ‘Secret Annexe’ where they spent 2 years with another family, the Van Daans, and a Dentist who joined them a year later. In total, there were 8 of them living in cramped and inhospitable conditions in secrecy.

Anne confides all in her diary (nicknamed Kitty). From her estranged relationship with her mother, to the pains of her unfolding womanhood, her love for Peter (Van Daan), the daily happenings of the Secret Annexe, and her increasing sense of becoming a person independent of her parents – WE are Kitty to whom Anne tells all, with a touch of genius that could never fully become. The diary entries paint a narrative that is humorous, poignant, and most of all, intimate. Never have I been so anguished with anticipation even after knowing how it all ends.

Anne is beautiful, witty, high-spirited, cheerful and even a little flippant on the outside. But this is the side that she has to put up to keep the peace in the long days of the Secret Annexe. There is another side to her which she confesses she rarely shows, for it is seldom appreciated, but is felt nevertheless.

‘A bundle of contradictions’ the others call her. But misunderstood would be more appropriate. Her understanding of the human soul, her own self, grows by leaps and bounds during the hideout. In the midst of despair and despondence, she chooses to look at the brighter side of things.
How fortunate we are here, so well cared for and undisturbed.

Truly, very few beings would be able to utter such words while surviving, essentially, like vermin.

If we can save someone, then everything else is of secondary importance.

Alas, the hopes of their escape are dashed as they are betrayed and found, and sent to Auschwitz. Only Mr. Frank survived.

sumz_4404's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense

5.0

lissi_k's review against another edition

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challenging reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

larinha_08's review against another edition

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dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

nikhilajk's review against another edition

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emotional sad slow-paced

4.0

bookworm921's review against another edition

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I did not finish the book because it was an assignment for school and I did not have the same copy. When they were finished with the book I still had a chunk left to read. I also did not find it as interesting as I have other books. 

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cjexoxo's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

aura_34's review against another edition

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4.0

Just another diary, but not just another diary. When I finished the book (diary, of course), I felt tremendously sad - realizing the fact that she dies a while after that last entry I read - as though I lost an old friend. Anne is a bit like myself. I could relate. The book just describes the way she grows into the surroundings, with her new family, the new life. The way she approaches adolescence with all the dullness surrounding her with the war. The way her intellectual maturity grows. Just another girl. But not just another girl.