232 reviews for:

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Elie Wiesel

3.65 AVERAGE

vavocado's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Complicated
• Loveable characters? Complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

rachvanw's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Complicated
• Loveable characters? Complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

violetearendil's review against another edition

4.0

Day is a novella in Wiesel's Night trilogy. In this story, a Holocaust survivor reminisces about life after the war while recovering as a victim of a car accident. This novella focuses on what it means to understand the true meaning of life and death.

chloesbook's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Complicated
• Loveable characters? Complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

kulisek's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

It was interesting to see how past still can haunt our present.

juliettee_july's review against another edition

4.0

Let's book. Had me thinking bro. I am absolutely in love with Eli Wiesel and all of his freaking books. I like the way he rides is absolutely captivating and the back and forth in this book. I will say it kind of confuses me here. But overall I fell in love with this book just like I fell in love with every other book. There were so many points and times where I had to literally stop and just be like wow like for someone who struggles with depression of reading this book and like basically understanding that this man is like look: if I die I die. It is what it does. Please don't try to save me and he's in a situation where he basically faced his death and he was hoping he did die and now he's not that he's alive and now people are questioning him. People are walking out eggshells around him and he's basically sitting here telling them exactly why he doesn't want to be alive or exactly who he is. And they're still just staring at him like he's crazy. And it's weird for me, because reading all that I like: Yes I get that.

drjreads's review against another edition

3.0

Definitely better than Wiesel's first foray into fiction, Day is an improvement of style and writing, but still suffers from Wiesel's preference for the male mind pondering on issues of existentialism while forgoing traditional plot or any kind of propulsive energy.
The novel finds its narrator/protagonist as the victim of a horrible accident, as his body is hit by a taxi in New York City. The story, though, takes place in the aftermath of the accident, as the man recuperates in the hospital, engages with conversations with his doctor, girlfriend, and a friend painting his portrait, and thinking back on his love story and a childhood he never speaks of.
It's a much less boring read than I found "Dawn" to be, yet it is at times agonizing to spend so much space within the mind of a man who comes off as pretentious and self-aggrandizing (the character, not Wiesel).
"Night" has rightfully gone down as Wiesel's masterpiece, but now that I've read a couple of his other books, it becomes clearer as to why... His other works are just not as good as his magnum opus.

jo961blue's review against another edition

4.0

Some books are just too hard to handle. This is an incredible read. There is more emotion and literature and philosophy and religion and understanding in this short novel than in 100 others. I had never really thought about what it would be like to live after being liberated from Auschwitz I guess because the people I have met have used their lives to inform others of the horror. So they have been able to find meaning. But this is not ostensibly what this book is about. It is about recovery from a car accident. But is it? How can you fight so hard to stay alive against all the odds. And then want to die? An amazing book.

stephaniereads123's review against another edition

5.0

"You speak of happiness Kathleen, as if happiness were possible. It isn't even a dream. It too is dead. It too is up above. Everything has taken refuge above. And what emptiness here below! Real life is there. Here, we have nothing. Nothing, Kathleen. Here we had an arid desert. A desert without even a mirage. It's a station where the child left on a platform sees his parents carried off by a train. And there is only black smoke where they stood. They are smoke."

jheher's review against another edition

4.0

Another classic Wiesel. Terse; each word carries more than its fair weight. This study of the long term impacts of one man's experience in WWII concentration camps. How those experiences define him in ways he will never be able to change yet how love and life tenaciously and insidiously struggle to overcome.