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4.38 AVERAGE
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Made me teary eyed about twice or thrice during the whole time I listened to this. The audiobook included the author's acceptance speech for his Nobel Peace Prize.
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Sometimes when I think about WWII and specifically the Nazis and the holocaust it all seems made up. Not in a "holocaust denier" way, but it all just seems so pointless and blatantly evil that it seems unrealistic. Like, it sounds like the setup for a video game. Rarely in life is something so black and white as the Nazi's villainy. I mean, they literally had skulls on their uniforms.
Also I still don't understand the supposed reasoning behind the holocaust. If he had some master plan for the race or whatever, why bother with the whole process of the camps? Why shuffle them around and feed them and build big camps? Why wouldn't he just kill them if that was the ultimate goal? The whole time I was reading Night I just kept thinking "What was the point of all this?". I guess the fact that I don't understand is a good thing, and I don't mean to be insensitive, I just kept being struck with the senselessness of it all.
Also I still don't understand the supposed reasoning behind the holocaust. If he had some master plan for the race or whatever, why bother with the whole process of the camps? Why shuffle them around and feed them and build big camps? Why wouldn't he just kill them if that was the ultimate goal? The whole time I was reading Night I just kept thinking "What was the point of all this?". I guess the fact that I don't understand is a good thing, and I don't mean to be insensitive, I just kept being struck with the senselessness of it all.
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One of the greatest books ever written and for the greatest purpose. Unbelievably painful and real.
Devastatingly gorgeous prose. Telling such a catastrophic story with precise and elaborate detail, emotion, and true fear in such a short amount of pages is miraculous.
I read this back in high school, somehow never having read Annes Diary because of how the district jumbled our education. This book pulled me hard, my imagery and feeling the torment Wiesel went through. Even as an adult I remember the scene when he spoke about a violin, his father dying and in that moment he was grateful over his death. But Wiesel is one of only a million with such a story and so many did not live to speak of it. This was a powerful memoir and one I think everyone should read at least once to get a deeper understanding of the pain that happened during the Holocaust.
More tolerable than I anticipated, this novel was actually simple, short, and without surprises. However, it is hard to rate a novel, such as this one, that is a true personal account of tragedy. Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor.
Why only tolerable? The novel was translated from French into English, which makes me wonder how much of the craft was lost. I hungered for more resonance and craft-- I would appreciate a rewrite by an author-- especially an English speaking one... maybe with the name of Markus Zusak.
The best part? I was surprised to find that the novel is not graphic. It is not overtly sad. It is not overbearing or unnecessarily painful. It also does not stray from the tragedy. It portrays horrific occurrences without detail, and without lingering.
Why only tolerable? The novel was translated from French into English, which makes me wonder how much of the craft was lost. I hungered for more resonance and craft-- I would appreciate a rewrite by an author-- especially an English speaking one... maybe with the name of Markus Zusak.
The best part? I was surprised to find that the novel is not graphic. It is not overtly sad. It is not overbearing or unnecessarily painful. It also does not stray from the tragedy. It portrays horrific occurrences without detail, and without lingering.
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