Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Night by Elie Wiesel

21 reviews

emerentina's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Physical abuse, Torture, Antisemitism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Deportation, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Violence, and War

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Medical content, and Mental illness

Minor: Addiction

aely's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Death, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Hate crime, and Violence

Moderate: War and Medical content

Minor: Deportation, Trafficking, Blood, Pedophilia, and Excrement

elspethmigliore's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

this was so heartbreaking to read. truly a gift to have the opportunity to read from the author’s point of view. 

most likely a reread ☑️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Gore, Child abuse, Blood, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Grief, Death of parent, Death, Cannibalism, Animal death, Trafficking, Ableism, Vomit, Torture, War, Religious bigotry, Mental illness, Genocide, Animal cruelty, Slavery, Child death, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Medical trauma, Confinement, Rape, Physical abuse, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

sugarwookiee's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Child death, Confinement, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Deportation

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, and Grief

almostqualified's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Antisemitism, Xenophobia, Genocide, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Violence, and War

Minor: Medical content

queerloras's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Hate crime, Murder, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Mass/school shootings, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Trafficking, War, Child death, Deportation, Genocide, and Gun violence

Minor: Sexual content, Medical content, and Adult/minor relationship

124smilehd's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

4.75

I remember reading this book in high school and not being as interested because it was something I had to read. Rereading this as an adult has made a whirl of a diffrence. My copy had the preface, forward from the original french publication, and speech from the Nobel prize award which gave me so much more context and insight. It also helped me delve into further research about the topic and Wiesel himself.

The story itself is a dark and honest recount of a boy who survived the holocaust and it shows the progression of his lost of hope, faith and even humanity. By his own admission, by the end when his

father dies

he feels nothing but relief, just as others before him had abandoned loved ones in order to keep themselves alive. As a reader you can't help but feel the heartbreak as he breaks both from internal and external tortures.

The book is beautifully written, with phrases that I will never forget and will probably keep me thinking for years to come. This is thanks to the tremendous skill of his wife, Marion Wiesel, who is the translator of this edition.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Genocide, Antisemitism, Violence, War, Gore, Child death, Death, Police brutality, and Suicide

Moderate: Medical content and Deportation

lostposture's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

To give this book a five-star ranking feels wrong. How do you award an experience so painful? How do you respond to the story of the survivor? With pity for their misfortune? With joy and awe of their stupendous luck? Or do you simply go numb, heart breaking under the thunderous crush of human capacity for hate and evil? How can I give such a terrible story five stars?

Five stars to author Elie Wiesel for reliving his pain to share his experience for the world to learn from. Five stars to Marion Wiesel for her haunting translation of his story from French to English. May they both rest in peace.

This will live with me for a long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child abuse, Torture, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Child death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War and Sexual content

I think that covers most of it

horizonous's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Death of parent, Murder, Antisemitism, Genocide, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Medical content, Child abuse, and Sexual violence

shrutislibrary's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, War, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Genocide, Child death, Death of parent, Violence, Torture, Medical content, Death, and Antisemitism