Reviews

Night by Elie Wiesel

manjuuu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

A book everyone should read. 

alisarae's review against another edition

4.0

I really appreciated reading this account of life in concentration camps. It's amazing how much faith, the will to live, and human psychology are all intertwined. I really recommend reading Maus if you haven't already done that.

cheesegromit's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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

alliemco's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

milanatsi's review against another edition

5.0

wow. I read this book for English 2 and holy shit I cried so much

maeclegg's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

travelling_bookworm's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

“ Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never. ”
 
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Heartbreaking, soul crushing, blood-chilling, and undeniably powerful. 

graciegrace1178's review against another edition

4.0

4.33 stars. Muchh shorter than I imagined but remarkably painful.

PT: Rory Gilmore reading challenge, reading around the world: Sighet Transylvania + others, books on the Holocaust

full review in progress

gothgf1567's review against another edition

At the beginning of this book, the introduction speaks of the need for this book so as to never allow anything like this to happen again. And then, the zionist calls for the colonization of Palestine from the author both in the book and during his lifetime, which in the future becomes an active and decades long genocide, seems to conflict with this sentiment. This memoir is incredibly powerful and necessary, and yet I find myself conflicted at the failure of the author and contributors to recognize their hypocrisy.