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Summary: NIGHT
Review: THIS IS A GREAT BOOK! I RECOMEND THIS TO ANY ONE. I NORMALLY HATE READING BUT THIS BOOK HAD ME READING UNTIL THE VERY END. I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN! TRUST ME. YOU WILL LOVE THIS BOOK!
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Summary: The most terrifying book I've ever read..
Review: In only a hundred pages or so this book manages to bring to life what surely must be the darkest most horrible period in history. With simple prose the author is able to paint a horrible picture of the time he spent in a concentration camp. The images his story evoked in my minds eye of the terrible cruelty humans can inflict on one another will stay with me forever.
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Summary: plainly and powerfully told
Review: Elie Wiesel's "Night" is the story of his experience of the Holocaust, in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He writes of this bleak, horrible time in plain and powerful prose. "Night" is far more than an account of days and nights that nearly defy description. It also reveals how young fifteen year old Elie, who had been an exceedingly devout and prayerful boy, lost his faith. The lament "Where is God?" echoes throughout the book, a question to which no one can provide an answer that satisfies without seeming too glib and insensitive. Elie Weisel did survive, and has spent much of his life seeking justice and reparations for the tremendous suffering and losses of the camps. His memoir "Night" is a vital contribution to Holocaust history.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: "Night" by Elie Wiesel is by far one of the best Holocaust books ever written. It is very short, but what it lacks in number of pages, it makes up for in content and message. The book gives a look at details from the ghetto and concentration camps that are often overlooked or widely unknown. It not only goes through a young man's struggle through concentration camps, but also his struggles with losing his family and everyone close to him, as well as his struggle with faith in God, hunger, and other issues. I found this book to be amazingly enlightening and overall wonderfully written
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Summary: A small book that hits like an atomic bomb
Review: I read this book for a college religious study course I took called "Religion and modern literature" at Long Beach State University. I found this book difficult to read because Elie Wiesel graphically describes the horrors of the holocaust. He gives a graphic description of people , especially children being thrown into the furnace at Auschwitz. The cruelity of the Nazis were purely barbaric. In the book Elie Wiesel describes his conflict with God amonst the suffering of his people. This book is a must read for anyone who wants to fully understand one of humanities darkest period. Six million people were murdered because of blind hatred.
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Summary: What's Going On Here ?
Review: Why haven't you heard about this: All present Holocaust Museums and literature are all about Gas Chambers. Isn't it odd Elie never mentioned one? At the time of his writing, Elie had several to chose from : Boiling water or steam(spread by the Polish communists); electrocution (spread by the Soviets); the fire method(origins yet undiscovered), and the gas chamber(spread by the American communists/pro-communists, etc.).On the scholarly plane, the gas chamber myth is finished. It ended at the Sorbonne colloquium in Paris(1982)- the problem is censureship; no means to get the message out. Even amoung "Court Historians" the 'Fire' war-propaganda/myth has long ceased any resemblence of credibility. The war-propaganda/myths of 'Boiling water", 'Steam' and 'Electrocution' have long been discredited. And why am I watching countless 'school' children being forced to read this nonsense for required 'school' readings ???
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Summary: Why?
Review: In Elie's time at the concentration camp he questions many things. He is constantly questioning why his people still praise and glofiy the same God who has betrayed them. Elie demands to know why God is punishing his people? But there is no end to the questioning of God's reasons, and there are only silent answers. Elies belief in his God waivers throughout the whole novel and eventually is destroyed. The Nazis not only murder his whole family but also his God. This was an insightful book full of pain, but extremely realistic. It makes you question the little things we take for granted, like our freedom.
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Summary: Not ONE word out of place
Review: This is a book that makes the most of simple, well-chosen English to create a powerful, poetic picture. The whole thing can be read through in a couple of hours, and then read again to pick up all those exquisite images created by the author's prose. Even if you are not interested in the Holocaust, you can read this book if for no other reason than to see an example of powerful writing that is balanced and not overwrought with detail.
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Summary: hunger, hunger, hunger
Review: Obviously, I agree with most of the things said by the other reviewers. What grabbed me, though, is this: the importance of hunger. How when you are starved enough, it really stops mattering how many people are being killed around you or even whether people are beating you up. Reading this reminded me that, even in the midst of all the terrorism and other terrible things that are going on in our world, material abundance (or at least a full stomach) is really nothing to sneeze at.
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Summary: You'll never forget this book
Review: During Mr. Wisels acceceptance speech for this pulitzer prize winning novel, he mentioned that he wrote this because he never wanted people to ever carelessly forget what had happened in concentration camps just as they had carlessly let it take place. In that he did an excellent job. The images that are drawn for the reader in this book are so horrifying and so vivd that they leave a lasting imprint on your soul. He uses simple diction while showing the evrelating "night" that he and so many others felt. He writes of the loss of his illusions , the loss of his innocence and the loss of his god on that horrible "night". I know that I will never forget, read this book so you can remember.
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