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Summary: Stunning
Review: This book is so wonderful. It puts you right in the concentration camp with him. No moralizing, no theorizing, just his experience. Yet hidden among the prose are these beautifully profound statements. Painful to read but well worth it.
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Summary: Amazing...Sad, Yet Triumphant
Review: This book is the most graphic and amazing account of life in a nazi death camp that I've ever come across. The things that Levi feared, witnessed, and was subjected to were some of the saddest, most disturbing things I've ever heard. He describes his arrest, delivery, and processing at Auschwitz. He then talks about the manner of life that he and his fellow prisoners fell helplessly into, a manner of life that you and I will never truly understand, thank God. I was amazed at the feats that these people had to manage, stunned by the inhumane brutality of the SS soldiers and other prisoner trustees, and deeply moved by Levi's account of his brief stay and the closest thing to hell on earth ever to exist.I recommend this book to absolutely anyone. It is important to at least respect what they went through during this most troubling time, and to learn from the mistakes of the past. I absolutely could not put this book down, though it is very, very upsetting, depressing, and astonishingly sad.
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Summary: Whilt chilling, it is suberb
Review: This book is truly remarable: it was written in 1947 but stood the test of time ; despite the author going through the most horrendous events it isn't bitter and twisted but analytical and human. Truly everyone should read.
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Summary: Brought a new aspect on how the Nazis treated others
Review: This book really brought a new aspect on how I see the Nazis and how the treated others in their concentration camps. There was a part that really stood out to me, when Levi was standing and watching the kids play and hang their clothes on the barbed wire fences. This showed me how even through the worst of times people can still live their life and be happy. This book was very good and how it went into great detail of how he lived his life and how he had to work to earn anything in the camp. It is very ironic how a young chemist in his prime could go from living in a normal life to not being able to do anything or make any choices on what to do. This really shows how one must have high tollerance to get through almost anything.
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Summary: It gives you a shocking, intense and personal experience.
Review: This book tends to draw you in and make you experience the concentration camp almost as if you were there and lived through it yourself. Food, life, pleasures, luxury and suffering will take on a brand new meaning after reading this book.
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Summary: Primo Levi does it again...
Review: This is an outstanding book. This shows in great detail the horror of the death camps of Nazi Germany. Primo Levi brings us into the Lager at Auschwitz, and shows us not only the horror of the treatment of the Jews who are imprisoned there, but also their degeneration either to death or to creatures able to do anything to survive, and able to do barely little else. He shows us the complex social structure that builds up in the death camp, and shows us what it takes to survive it. He does this all without laying any blame on those who survived, and asks for no pity either. He then shows his own re-entry into humanity, as he works while infected with scarlet fever to save 10 other men. As a previous reviewer said, this should be a work of science fiction, but it is a description of a descent into hell guided by Nazi demons. Oddly, Nazi Germans play a very small role in the book. He spends most of the time describing the interactions between the prisoners, and not with the Germans. This book will move you, and give you new insight into how horrible the holocaust really was. Truly an outstanding work. If you read no other book about the holocaust, this should be the one.
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Summary: Gripping Narritive of a Horrible Place
Review: What makes this book such a good read for those who are interested in the Holocoust or the experiences of those who lived through it is the simple, yet highly charged, narritive of Primo Levi. He does not overgrandize his experience, chooising instead to tell his story in simple, straightforward prose that's carefully structured to just tell the story and let the gravity of the events evoke the emotions of the reader, rather than trying to use highly stylized language to evoke emotion that might trivialize the events at hand. It is this simplicity of language combined with efficient, yet gripping, storytelling that make this a captivating read about the Hollocaust.
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Summary: Wow.
Review: Without any sense of trying to make the experience any more horrifying than it was Primo Levi describes the day to day existence with clarity. THe few moments of decency he experiences in the book are to be cherished as he presents the most compelling reason for and against the continued survival of the human race. Primo Levi is a writer too compelling to put down. For the cour you are with him as he becomes a machination of the Reich, and as he reclaims his humanity in the last chapter
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Summary: Words can not begin to express
Review: Words can not begin to express the experiences of Levi and his comrades at Auschwitz. Our minds can not comprehend the tragedy of death and dehumanization that occured in the Nazi death camps. Although Levi does not appeal to your emotions, you will cry for him as he opens your eyes to the cruelty. As will you cry for those who did not survive to tell their stories. Also, you may want to read Night by Elie Wiesel for another account of life in a death camp.
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