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Customer Rating:
Summary: A gift to humanity
Comment: "Night" is a gift to humanity. The haunting story is told in such a way that the most evil time in
history can be understood. Elie Wiesel opens his heart and the result is a treasured piece of
literature. Amazing.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Extremely depressing / Parents beware!
Comment: This book should not be read by anyone who is likely to have nightmares based on horrific stories.
This is an inappropriate choice for English teachers to assign as reading unless your students are
all over the age of 16 and you know that none of them are subject to depression. If the book is
included in a suggested reading list, it should be noted that the story is very depressing. I found
my 14 year old son in tears reading this story and I called his school to ask that he not be
required to complete it which is what happened.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Translation wrong
Comment: Do not buy this. This does not follow isbn 0028179668 or 0553272535.
it is a total waste of
money if you intend to use this in a classroom setting with the isbn numbers listed above.
You
will want ISBN-10: 1883332508. This is the correct translation which corresponds to the above isbn
numbers

Customer Rating:
Summary: Reads like a Book Length Poem
Comment: I started reading "Night" a couple months ago and it was so heavy, I had to put it down and take a
break before continuing. Life went on as it has a habit of doing, and today I picked the book back
up without any intention beyond reading a breath at a time.

I think because of the
backdrop of my own life-experience as of late, I was pretty numb during the reading, but what I
noticed were silent tears leaking out of my eyes. A recent phenomenon for me, when there is so much
emotion yet almost placid emotion. Hard to put into words.

The writing is so precise,
so clear it makes the story that much more accessible for the reader. There are no histrionics there
is simply "this happened" with explanation and vivid descriptions for us to become a part of the
atrocities that occurred themselves.

It is almost like a book-length poem.
/>I want to read it again. Maybe I will wait seven days and read it again. Its shortness would make
it about an hour read if I just sat and read.

Customer Rating:
Summary: From a teacher's perspective...
Comment: I ordered 27 copies of Night for my advanced students to read and have been thrilled. The new
translation is beautifully written and the story is, as it always has been, a brutally honest
description of life in the camps.