Reviews

Day by Elie Wiesel

max_rauhman's review against another edition

5.0

This was one of the most emotionally impactful books I’ve read in a long time. It took me several weeks to get through it, even though it’s only about a hundred pages. Honestly, this book scared me. The content was challenging and exhausting, and I had to ask myself “are you sure you’re up for this?” before diving in. The extent to which it was difficult for me is also a solid measure of how badly I needed to read this for personal growth.

Although there is a driving narrative, the book is just as much “philosophy” as it is “story.” Wiesel asks how one can love another person after they’ve seen the atrocities we’re capable of as a species, and whether it’s possible to repair spiritual wounds. He also examines the value of a single human life, and the value of the human species as a whole. Also, what room is there for God in a world gone wrong?

Elie Wiesel can’t answer these questions for us- no one can. That’s one of the reasons I think that this book will stay in my mind and heart forever.

grungeseabunny's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

dollythornton's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

kkaste's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

sr_yancey's review against another edition

Suffering, death, and now life and love after so much suffering and death. This trilogy will haunt me.

kavanaughcori's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

catladylover94's review against another edition

5.0

good different,

ramblingbard's review

dark emotional reflective sad

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

4.0

amittaizero's review against another edition

3.0

I read this almost ten years after first reading [b:Night|1617|Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)|Elie Wiesel|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1473495285s/1617.jpg|265616] and a year after reading [b:Dawn|11166|Dawn (The Night Trilogy, #2)|Elie Wiesel|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1416448131s/11166.jpg|164328].

I don't know if Wiesel's truth in this book is True or not. Only several weeks ago, a survivor of the massacre at Parkland killed herself. Was it because she was carrying the dead inside her?

"...why should God be allied with death? Why should He want to kill a man who succeeded in seeing him? Now, everything became clear. God was ashamed. God likes to sleep with twelve-year-old girls. And He doesn't want us to know. Whoever sees it or guesses it must die so as not to divulge the secret. Death is only the guard who protects God, the doorkeeper of the immense brothel that we call the universe."

mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition

2.0

I'm glad I read Night. But there was no good reason for me to have read this book. I didn't enjoy the style or the characters really any details or meaning. I get that our main character was at least depressed if not actually suicidal, but I really didn't care. Mostly readable, but also mostly tiresome. It was a character study, but I'm not sure that was a good thing.