Reviews tagging 'Death'

Man's Search for Meaning: Young Adult Edition: Young Adult Edition by Viktor E. Frankl

70 reviews

cmwilliams29's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative sad medium-paced

3.75

I read bits and piece of this many years ago, but it's great to finally read the full text. A harrowing and powerful account of life in a concentration camp and the insights he gathers from the behaviour of those prisoners is just stunning. To see how Frankl used his training from before the war to then develop his theories afterwards is impressive. An important book - I understand why it has received so much praise in the past.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Excrement, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and War

Minor: Cannibalism

lindsayvale's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Grief, and War

sponberry's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, and War

rennybenny's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.0

Listened to this in audio and I think I'm gonna have to sit down and read it to really soak everything in. Frankl comes from such a unique perspective that deserves to be listened to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, and Xenophobia

crazybooklady89's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I will need to read this one again. For such a small book it held so many gems! I was both inspired by and educated on Logotherapy principles. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Torture, Xenophobia, Grief, and Murder

elizlizabeth's review against another edition

hopeful reflective fast-paced

2.5

Lo leí para una clase de la uni. Los principios de la logoterapia, así como del psicoanálisis, me parecen cuestionables; como memoria está muy bien escrita.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Slavery, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Genocide

ghostycell's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

Difficult to get through at times, for different reasons. The subject matter is very dark but the story is told in a very engaging way and I was keen to keep going. The second half becomes a bit technical and I struggled to get through it at times, but it is well worth the time spent. 

The audiobook experience was decent. I think everyone should give this book a go, at the very least.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Police brutality, and War

Moderate: Suicide, Torture, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child death and Cannibalism

jayvdw's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

This book is split into a few parts. I only read the first part of the book: Experiences in a Concentration Camp. This is the original book that Frankl wrote. Later on, other parts of the book about logotherapy were added. I read a bit from these parts but it was personally of no interest to me to read about it. But since I am rating the whole book and I was only interested in half of the book, I deduced 0.25 from my rating. 

The first part was a unique experience to read. It was written as a combination of a narrative and a psychological analysis of this narrative. Frankl wrote about his own experiences in the different Concentration camps and what he did to mentally survive. The book teaches the reader a lot about life in a concentration camp and how it was organized from the prisoner's perspective. 

The book is also full of great quotes from other people. My personal favorites were:
The story about the death in Teheran. A short story that highlights that people should let fate run its course. 

It did not really matter what we expected of life, but rather what life expected from us. 
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take away from you.

I have visited the Dachau concentration camp, the camp where Frankl was liberated from. This made reading the book a bit extra special, since I was aware of how to camp looked and I have walked around it myself. This also made me rethink my visit and the next time I will visit a concentration camp, I am sure to have this book in the back of my mind. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Genocide, Hate crime, Antisemitism, and Deportation

Moderate: Death, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: War

chemeducator's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, and Antisemitism

mblanke's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and War