Review: Night

Night by Elie Wiesel

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



This is such a difficult book for me to rate. I am giving it five-stars because it deserves it .. but I never want to read this book again.

This story was horrific. I have absolutely no perspective when it comes to this brand of terror. This book, which was simply written, recounts the tragedies of the Holocaust. I had to put it down several times. It made me sick. Every time I picked it back up, I had to take a deep breath. I reminded myself that no matter how awful it is to read .. it is not a measurable fraction of how bad it was to live.

Bravo to all the survivors (of the Holocaust or 9/11 or anything) that have the courage to tell their story. It's a lesson that needs to be shared and a lesson that does not bear repeating. May, one day, a book be enough.



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