The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, Day

another of my big favorites

I only read "Dawn", but this program seems to have tremendous trouble just pinning down that one book from an multiple-award winning author, so I'm picking this one.

a must read for someone who wants to be philosophically challenged.

About the perils of indifference and why we should never never let another genocide happen again. The stories that tell us why we must never never allow another genocide to happen again.

Jaw-dropping. Both the content and the writing. An account of walking through the gates of hell -- and then back out. And struggling to go on living when everything you loved, believed, valued -- when your very identity is incinerated by the sulfuric inferno of human hate. You can read existentialist philosophers -- and you should -- but no book I've read frames those questions more starkly,...more

Jaw-dropping. Both the content and the writing. An account of walking through the gates of hell -- and then back out. And struggling to go on living when everything you loved, believed, valued -- when your very identity is incinerated by the sulfuric inferno of human hate. You can read existentialist philosophers -- and you should -- but no book I've read frames those questions more starkly, more nakedly than Wiesel does in the context of his own experience.   hide

Night: 5 Stars. Dawn: 4 stars. Day: 3 stars.

Night is by far the best in this series. Elie Wiesel's account of events during the holocaust is chilling. Dawn is good. The struggle within the character himself is heartbreaking. Day, though interesting in some ways, did not hold my interest like the other two stories, but I would still suggest reading it to complete the trilogy.

I only read "Day", but I plan on going back and reading "Night" and "Dawn" as well. Really compelling.

the best holocast book(night) i've read, it's up there with the diary of anne frank