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Night (Oprah's Book Club)
by: Elie Wiesel
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318092
EAN: 9780374500016
ISBN: 0374500010
Label: Hill and Wang
Manufacturer: Hill and Wang
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 120
Publication Date: January 16, 2006
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Release Date: January 16, 2006
Sales Rank: 848
Studio: Hill and Wang
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Rating:  - Night
This was an amazing book. Anyone wanting to study WW2 and or just the Holocaust, this is the book to read. I rate it right up there with the Diary of Anne Frank. It is an amazing story that pulls you so you can't put it down!
Rating: - What Hell Looks Like
There was obviously no joy for Elie Wiesel in writing this grisly memoir of life in a concentration camp. These are not moments to savor, to cherish, to grinningly share with the grandchildren. The darkest period of human history is recounted with no sugar coating; laid out stark and cold so that all of humanity can bear witness.
To find a reason to carry on when your world is systematically stripped bare and your soul is skewered without explanation is a challenge for even the greatest ... Read More
Rating: - Scary reminder of what mankind is capable of
I learned four things from this book. First; people are capable of doing the most horrific of deeds to each other. I seriously hope I would never do those types of things; but I have never been put in that type of situation. Second; other people are able to allow these things to happen without intervening. This is trickier, because it happens all of the time; we know bad things happen far away and feel others will take care of it. How would I react if it were happening in my own community? Third; ... Read More
Rating: - heart wrenching
In this true account of a man who has lived trough one of history's biggest atrocity, you'll find a boy facing a cold world. Forced to grow up much too fast, he becomes a man, who has to ask the important questions and has to live with the answers no matter how vague and how inconclusive. I don't know how he still believes in God.
Rating: - The banal becomes terrifying, the terrifying becomes everyday "normal"
The beauty of this book lies in Elie Wiesel's ability to turn everything we know inside-out. He succeeds in taking something so extraordinary large as the Holocaust, and transforming it into something intimate and extremely personal through his restrained voice.
Through his eyes, in equal turns subjective and dispassionate, the banal becomes terrifying, the terrifying becomes everyday"normal". In a heartbeat, hope gives way to despair, but despair just as quickly can give way to hope. Wiesel's ... Read More
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