everyone should read Night by Elie Wiesel
because it really happened
it shows what you can endure
and what you are capable of doing to others
Dec 24, 2024
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It taught me how literature can carry national grief. The novel doesn’t glorify war - it strips it bare. The language is sober, devastating and shaped how I understand brutality, numbness, and the fight to stay human.
Once, in my hometown, there was an art installation where quotes from the book were engraved into tree trunks and scattered through the city:
“A lance corporal (…) drags his shattered knees behind him; another walks to the dressing station, and over his clasped hands spill his intestines. (…) The horror can be endured as long as you simply duck your head; but it kills you if you start to think about it.”
Apr 16, 2025
Or anything written by Vonnegut, for that matter. I certainly prefer some of his other books, but I re-read this one for the first time and was bewildered by how compelling and strange it still was.
Vonnegut is my go-to recommendation when I talk to people who rarely read, and my go-to when I talk to people I really like. So complex, and then written with such meticulous precision that just about anyone can read it.
The general theme through all of these novels is "kindness in spite of everything. Vonnegut was obviously traumatized and cynical, but his books radiate a gentleness that no one can match
May 25, 2025
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My favorite book ever makes me cry every time I read it please read it will strengthen your spirit
Jan 23, 2024
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