Reviews tagging 'War'

Night by Elie Wiesel

131 reviews

robotnik's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

4.0

It's so hard to put into this book into words. I remember having to read it in school. My class of 26 was the type of students who would rather be in gym class, rock climbing, than reading a book. Some of them probably rather be stuck in a math test than read a book. There was literally myself and one other girl who read regularly away from class. And, this book made this group of book haters emotional. 

It's the memoir of a Holocaust survivor, and so you can't really judge the events or the emotion that went behind it. This book really brings to life the horrors and atrocities that happened during the Holocaust. It's written in such a way that it reminds you that these were real people with real horrors happening to them, and this wasn't hundreds of years ago - so far distant in the past that we tend to forget that these things happened to real people. But, this wasn't far in the past, as far as history is concerned. 

I loved this book, and I hope other people read it. It's a reminder about what mankind can do to itself, and why we should try our damnedest to not repeat history. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism and War

turtlebassoonist's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

As a religious man, this book hurt and burned unlike anything I've read before. How is a faith to stand in the context of such suffering? As this record of pain carries memories of one of humanity's most depraved hours through the decades, I am confident, however, that the challenge of this book will inspire endurance and a hope that will not be put to shame.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Police brutality, Antisemitism, and War

sophiaanderson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

fae93's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

0.25

This was a helpful book assigned as required reading in high school. However, the author is a Zionist - he was already attempting colonization in 1946 and the genocide (Nakba) occured in 1948. There are other survivors like those in Jewish Voice for Peace who have not become the oppressor in their freedom. It's really sickening how awful this man is and has tainted the book too much for me to ever recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Racism, Torture, and War

karly_ackley's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and War

sadiesupernova's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I am so drained after reading this. Such an important book but so incredibly difficult. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

strwbrymatcha's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

spinesinaline's review against another edition

challenging emotional fast-paced

4.0

Clearly a very personal and haunting story. I had known of this book for a while and I'm glad to have finally read it. For a firsthand account of the horrors of the holocaust, I'd recommend this book but really review the content warnings first. Seeing his attitudes towards Palestine in the epilogue is more haunting.

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Content Warnings

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

catiecat2_5's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Racism, Torture, Police brutality, Death of parent, and War

halfling_stories's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Antisemitism, and War