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Summary: The Holocaust For Real
Comment: I have watchd many movies that "hollywoodize" the holocaust and use theatrics to depict what
happened. "Night" is the most gripping tale of that horrific event I have read or seen. Kudos to
Elie Wiesel for being able to control his emotions to write such a compelling, real-life, emotional
story. He richly deserves the Nobel Prize.

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Summary: Not "Just Another Haulocaust Book"
Comment: I "read" this book as a book on tape. I almost turned it off..."Oh, here's another one of those
depressing Haulocaust books", I thought at first. But, I'm glad I listened alittle more. As I did
I realized that "this guy has a way with words".

You'll read the part of the book
about the violinist who "plays his last concert" inside a damaged brick factory as the captives rest
during a "death march" type of experience---the violinist plays the theme from Beethoven's Violin
Concerto as about 100 of his fellows are laying in the snow half dead from starvation and fatigue
after a long forced march. Wiesel falls asleep and when he awakens the violinist is dead and his
violin is crushed. But, the author states that this "concert" lives forever in his memory every
time he hears the Beethoven violin theme...and it will also "live" in your memory--- in the mind of
the reader of the book every time you think about this book. This book is "not depressing" when you
realize as you read it that, "this guy survived all this cruelty"...and that thought makes the book
encouraging and "uplifting". Recommended. Email: boland7214@aol.

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Summary: Pulls you into a story that has to be shared
Comment: The author gives the reader a heads-up in his introduction that his story has been doubted,
especially in the first edition. I don't doubt his story. He has a voice that can only come from
someone who experienced such pain and hardships.

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Summary: mandatory reading for every human being on the planet.
Comment: "What do you recommend?" I asked the bookshop attendant, "I like Hemmingway..."
He
immediately rushed for this book. The pulitzer peace prize winner and oprah book club selection.
That was yesterday evening. It's done now. Absolutely riveting.

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Summary: Stunning
Comment: I have never and, God-willing, will never find my self in a situation where my life or the life of
my family is in danger. I have never and, God-willing, will never encounter people with such
horrific apathy to their fellow human beings. I cannot honestly review this book because the
subject matter is beyond my comprehension. The telling is in Mr. Wiesel's own words and cannot be
criticized for he and only he can express what is in his heart and what is sadly in his memory.
What I can say is that this book should be required reading for EVERYONE so that this history is
never again repeated. I finished this book on a plane and had to sit quietly the remainder of the
flight, staring silently at Mr. Wiesel's photograph on the back cover. Thought-provoking doesn't do
this book justice. I have no words to describe that which has no place in humanity but which Mr.
Wiesel and so many MANY others somehow endured. I gave the book to a friend that day and I hope it
travels the world.