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 Anne Frank March 23, 2007
2 out of 15 found this review helpful
I think this book was quite interesting and made me feel very sad at the end. It is good but it also is not very engaging and it was rather boring in parts. I bought it after studying it for A level English and even though i thought it was ok, it is not one of the best books that i have read.
 A classic February 11, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Despite the exceptional circumstances under which Anne Frank wrote her diary, she shows a totally natural teenage spirit, with which young people today can also identify. Boy trouble, for instance! However, she also demonstrates a remarkable maturity far beyond her years, which makes this diary so moving. Direct from the heart, Anne's Diary will always be a testimony to the suffering and hardship suffered by the Jews during the Second World War. Everyone should read this book.
Why the loss of 6 million January 9, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I first heard about her as a child dramatised on TV which scared me. It still did with the pictures of the Holocaust till I went to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Then I forced myself to read about her and her diary. At the start she is just an every day girl having fun and tells you about her daily life. All is then taken away in hiding and she talks about house mates and how things get worse. No where does she express hate for the evils but instead worries for the others suffering in the holocaust Disabled, Jews, Gypsies, etc.
Its why Im am always reminded that Racisim should never be allowed to extremes. 6 million individual lives who all had contributions to society all taken away. This book should be read by everyone. At the end of the day we are all much the same. Ignorance is the watch word. Read, ask and learn about other peoples ways faiths (where they come from first) then draw conclusions!
A shocking reminder February 25, 2005
11 out of 21 found this review helpful
I didn't find this book compelling reading but having recently visited the house in Amsterdam where Anne and her family were hiding, I stuck with reading the mundane story to the end. Various thoughts occurred as I turned the pages, not least wonderment at how eight people could survive for over two years without giving themselves away and also how their friends managed to feed them etc over that time. Anne writes of the things that any girl of her age would do but, apart from the privations of captivity, there is little to glean from the book about the war and the outside world - one would not expect a girl of her age to be able to write of such things. The great tragedy is that Anne did not survive to see the end of the war and enjoy the life to which she was entitled. The book has sold in its millions and if I could pass a world-wide law, it would be that it was compulsory reading for every human being in the hope that it ended man's inhumanity to man everywhere. Anyone who had anything to do or any connection with the Holocaust should be forever haunted by their conscience.
Heartbreaking August 7, 2004
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
With an engaging combination of lively humour, teenage high spirits, adolescent angst and heart-wrenching despair at the terror that dominated her nights and days in a rickety Amsterdam warehouse, Anne Frank's diary is a living testimony to the senseless slaughter that took place in the Nazi concentration camps. Although she was an exceptionally gifted writer, in most respects she was just an ordinary teenage girl who was denied the chance of an ordinary teenage life. For me, this knowledge injected even the most humorous diary entries with a sense of sick irony - Anne is innocently hopeful throughout most of the book, but in the end she lost out. Her anguished cry, "Let the end come, even if it is hard!" came true, and sixty years later this harrowing quote speaks volumes, telling readers of the diary exactly how difficult conditions in the Secret Annexe were.But in spite of this, Anne does not allow you to pity her. She is too lively, too quick-minded, too full of beans to tolerate that. Her personality and those of the seven people she shared a cramped attich with shine forth from the diary's pages. The diary has special meaning for me as I am close to one of Anne and Margot's old friends, who unlike them returned alive. I am now the age Anne was when she died. Strangely, I too want to become a writer. Anyone who dares to dream about what they would like to do tomorrow should read this book.
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