Powerful and important. ( )

This is a record of Elie Wiesel's personal memories of his time as a teenager in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. "Night" portrays the horror and grief so many people endured throughout World War II. Elie also urges readers throughout to remember what happens so it is never allowed to happen again. A heartbreaking story that all readers should hear. ( )

I'll suggest to every reader I know that this book should be in their hands. ( )

I don’t know what possessed me to buy this depressing novel. Especially as it was the first novel I had read from months, I just cannot read when depressed, and then I came across a review which was excellent. Plus it was short. So I read it while I was depressed and in hospital on extended stay.

This must mean something - that I was able to complete it ... But, and it is a big but, I don’t understand why it was so well reviewed. I have read much better - more well written - novels about the Holocaust, and this doesn’t come near any of them.

That it is factual may be the reason it received so many awards, but I was disappointed in the quality of the book, and with the structure of the story line. ( )

"NEVER SHALL I FORGET that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never."

Everyone should read this book.

Lest we forget. ( )