Night (Elie Wiesel)

This is an extremely powerful book that provokes the same outrage as Animal Farm does.

I had to read this in the 8th grade. I was really not prepared to deal with all of the imagery in it and I think that affected the way I feel about it. I have read it since then and since visiting Dachau (one of the first death camps). It is almost indiscribable how much pain is contained within this short book, but everybody should read it, just to so we don't forget.

Short, action packed, moving...my kind of book.

A depressingly eye-opening novel about the Holocaust. It will make you cry for a month.

Wiesel's first Holocaust novella was probably his best. It's brevity enhances it's impact.

Unforgettable. Chilling. Difficult to read, in parts.

I read this book last year in English class, and just found it to be a very deep and depressing novel which explores a young man's horror during the Holocaust. It almost brought me to tears when Elie's father died. And of course, it is short, so I was able to read it in about two hours without putting it down once, and when I was finish, I stopped for a moment to remind myself that the Holocaust really DID occur and that evil in this world is a cruel reality.

This book's pretty interesting I guess. It's definitely no masterpiece or classic of any kind, but it's still pretty interesting. I had to read it for a Contemporary Moral Problems class my first year of college when we were studying genocide. I guess I mainly enjoyed it because it was so much easier to understand than the endless philosophical works we were always reading and analyzing. The book really makes you realize just how terrifying the Holocaust actually was.

An overrated opus best suited for junior high schoolers.

I think this should be required reading in all schools. The Holocaust should never be forgotten. This book tells of the author's terrifying experiences in the Nazi death camps.

.....disturbing....but disturbing in a way that all born after the holocaust must never forget.The humanity portrayed in this book is eternal,this is one of the modern classics of our time. It is a book that ALL must read.

He's a racist. He has attacked Jews and non-Jews alike who have even suggested that non-Jews also suffered during the Holocaust.

It amazes me that a humanitarian and author such as Wiesel was able to explain Shoah in this compact but evocative masterpiece of survival, second by second, in the Nazi concentration camps, through an eternal "Night." William Saroyan evokes similar feelings in his novel "The Human Comedy" about feelings of loss and despair, but ultimately of hope and redemption of humanity, only Saroyan refers to the Armenian Holocaust. A must-read for those who need to know and be aware of the horrors man can inflict upon man.

Extremely moving. Captures the sorrow, strength, and emotion of the characters and the time period. The fact that it's a true story only makes it that much more powerful.

This was a good book because it has to do with history. It was through the eyes of a Jewish guy and what happened in his life. The book was very good and insightful. I also read this in English.

This book is good from a historical point of view. It adds a little humanity to the story of the second World War. As Wiesel travels from camp to camp and is split up from his family, he manages to survive, and is still a supporter for rights all over the world.

Unlike most other books about the Holocaust, this really shows the inhumanity in the death camps. It's like you were there. Terribly haunting.

The book is very specific. It deals with the Holocaust in brutal detail and succeeds greatly in imparting upon the reader the horror of the experience. It was hard to put down, short and concise. It should be required reading.

Wiesel's testament to the horror of the Holocaust is indispensable. It's the first book of a trilogy. It is short and haunting. If you want to know how the atrocities scarred the survivors, read Night.

This was truly the most powerful book I have ever read and the only one that has ever brought me close to tears. I'm ashamed that it has taken me, a 31 year old Jewish man, so long to read it. Through raw emotion, the atrocities that Wiesel went through are painted with terrifying detail. What everyone must remember is that his is just one of millions of similar stories. Unlike most of the others, he survived and had the courage to bare his soul.

A tiny, shocking book that uses simple language and an economy of words to describe the horror of the Holocaust. For me, this book was an eye-opener when I read it in junior high school. I hadn’t realized 20th century human beings were capable of such boundless cruelty. History books taught me the basic facts of the Holocaust, but “Night” gave it a living face and forced me to try to grapple with the fact that evil can still manifest itself on such a large scale. “Night” is the best Holocaust book I’ve ever read, although I’d also recommend “Man’s Search For Meaning” by Victor Frankl – another short book that fully describes the horror while also showing that the human spirit can survive Hell on earth.

About as painful and powerful as I can imagine (or handle) in as few pages.