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Summary: A book of knowledge, wisdom, and understanding.
Review: This book gives a lot detailed information and shares a number of things that we need to know about, I recommend that school students read this book. It will show them that suffrage took place not only now but than also. Many of us think that we going through now but it was something back in the days. Even though they did not have what we have they been through something even worst and I say to the writter job well done. I get the point and the understanding.
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Summary: Interesting, brilliant, exceptional all once
Review: There's some sort of charm and insight to every sentence in Thomas Keneally's exceptional novel. Indeed, Oskar Schindler was a scoundrel, a drunkard, a womanizer (unremittingly successful in all three), but he was refined and had a heart of gold. He was far from flawless, but flawed men are capable of great things. Thomas Keneally doesn't just bring him interestingly to life; he brings the situations to life as well. Sometimes, the novel seems immediate and urgent; other times, it seems sober and indifferent. The observations and keen duality of Keneally telling the story and BEING the story is very curious, and indeed, some of the events are just eye-poppingly coincidental, since many of them actually happened in history. One of the better Holocaust fiction, "Schindler's List" is powerful, compelling, brilliant, and exceptional.
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Summary: Confusing - but good.
Review: I read Schindler's List for my English class, and I found it an educating and interesting experience for me and my friends, but it was extremely confusing. I found it especially difficult to discern a plot or theme from the book. I digress however, the life and escapades of Oskar Schindler are worth reading about and I'd recommend it to anyone with an interest in the Holocaust or World War II.
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Summary: Triumphant!
Review: You don't have to be a perfect person in order to make the world a better place. You can work on yourself and help others at the same time. When you reach a ripe old age, you still probably will not be a perfect person. That's okay. You can still do great things. Sure, I could have figured this out on my own, but it's nice to have a living, breathing example. I also learned that even with people who fundamentally disagree with you, you can be a lot more open than you would think. And instead of telling people that they should do something differently, which I suppose can be done well, Oskar asked people to help him with his project. "My workers . . . highly skilled . . . essential labor." It was genius. When I first heard of this story, I wondered if it was true. And sometimes I still find myself wondering, Did this really happen? Was Oskar really able to pull this off? Oh yes, he was able to pull it off. This is a true story. "Ah, Oskar Schindler, now there's a name people won't soon forget. For he, he did something extra-ordinary."
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Summary: Keneally at his best
Review: This is Thomas Keneally at his best. The chance meeting with a Schindler Jew in a Los Angeles shop made a book, then a movie, then a global project to catalogue the stories of Holocaust survivors. It took Spielberg and Hollywood to bring the story to the screen but it was Keneally and his evocative text on the life of Oskar Schindler that bought the story to the world. His choice to use the texture of a novel works well. As the author said himself, this seemed the best way to handle a character with the ambiguity and magnitude of that celebrated Sudeten charmer. But a novelist's approach also makes it easier to convey meaning, to explore and probe every shadow, each emotion, any nuance. Keneally's gift is to do this well. The highlight of the book is his brilliant study of Oskar and Amon, good with bad, the German bon vivant versus the Dark Prince. Like two heads of the same coin, Keneally shows nobility and evil as uncomfortably close bedfellows. There go I but the grace of God... Keneally has a well-deserved reputation as one of Australia's greatest writers, but the forces this book has set in train, perhaps, have not been fully acknowledged. Fortunately, for a select group of southern Polish Jews in World War II, a saviour was in their midst. Fortunately, for those that followed, there was a writer who saved the saviour's story for us all.
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Summary: You will never forget.
Review: You will never forget this book. You should never forget. The compelling events of the biggest crime on the face of this earth will grip your heart and if you are human at all, it will inspire you to do something either in the world or even just within your own family or your own soul, to see that this history never repeats itself. You will never forget and you should never forget. Read it, know it and then make it part of you that it will not happen again. Teach your children. Refuse to participate in any activity of the least that resembles hatred and don't accept the actions of those around you who may mimic prejudice and evil. If you are human and normal, once you have read this book and/or have seen the video, you will never forget.
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Summary: heartstopping!
Review: The horror of Auchwitz has never before been written so brilliantly and truthfully-this book is first hand evidence of a truely tallented story teller and is well worth the read.
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Summary: A flawed man doing Great Things
Review: [My last review was botched in transmission. Please forgive the resubmission.] The Holocaust is a difficult topic to deal with as subject matter for a work of art; its horrors have been explicitly brought to light countless times in several different formats and knowledge of these horrors has pervaded our society such that nearly everyone has been exposed to them in some way or another. In order to tell an effective story about the Holocaust, one must do more than shock the reader with the evils that took place in concentration camps or Jewish ghettos--this has been done once and for all by those who lived through it. In Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally goes beyond such shock value by telling of the profound goodness that emerged--from such unspeakable evil--in the character of prison camp Direktor Oskar Schindler and his Schindlerjuden. In his telling of the story, Keneally's sure-handed prose adds credibility and its occasional delve into the poetic adds great emotional weight. The effect of such a telling is that of a slow toxin that siezes the reader by the heart and squeezes to the point of anguish, leading to a novel that is both deeply moving and absolutely believable. As for the story itself, Keneally focuses mostly on the actions and ambitions of Schindler, leaving the horror stories recessed in the background, creeping around the edges. When such evils are brought to the forefront of the tale, they are potent and real, but somehow serve more as chiaroscuro to the divine goodness of Schindler's deeds. Thus it is that much more effective when Schindler spends every bit of his entire life's fortune to literally buy life for as many of the Jews as he possibly can. When all is said and done, Keneally has done no less than consecrate the sanctity of life by weighing its importance against that of essentially meaningless things such as money. Schindler's List, by telling the story of a good man living in such evil times, has become an important addition to Holocaust literature.
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Summary: A flawed man, doing great things.
Review: The Holocaust is a difficult topic to deal with as subject matter for a work of art; its horrors have been explicitly brought to light countless times in several different formats and knowledge of these horrors has pervaded our society such that nearly everyone has been exposed to them in some way or another. In order to tell an effective story about the Holocaust, one must do more than shock the reader with the evils that took place in concentration camps or Jewish ghettos--this has been done once and for all by those who lived through it. In Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally goes beyond such shock value by telling of the profound goodness that emerged--from such unspeakable evil--in the character of prison camp Direktor Oskar Schindler and his Schindlerjuden. In his telling of the story, Keneally's sure-handed prose adds credibility and its occasional delve into the poetic adds great emotional weight. The effect of such a telling is that of a slow toxin that siezes the reader by the heart and squeezes to the point of anguish, leading to a novel that is both deeply moving and absolutely believable. As for the story itself, Keneally focuses mostly on the the background, creeping around the edges. Whenactions and ambitions of Schindler, leaving the horror stories recessed in such evils are brought to the forefront of the tale, they are potent and real, but somehow serve more as chiaroscuro to the divine goodness of Schindler's deeds. Thus it is that much more effective when Schindler spends every bit of his entire life's fortune to literally buy life for as many of the Jews as he possibly can. When all is said and done, Keneally has done no less than consecrate the sanctity of life by weighing its importance against that of essentially meaningless things such as money. By telling the story of a good man living in such evil times, Schindler's List has become an important addition to Holocaust literature.
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Summary: You almost forget it's fiction
Review: Even though Keneally is working from a true story, there are some fictionalized elements. You truly forget there's fiction as you page through this amazing work. The movie is my favourite film of all time, and I cried even when I read this book. A masterwork.
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