She was quirky and lovable... and caught up in the hatred of stupid men

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	• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank Bantam, 1993 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 629 reviews view larger image
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Great, honest book

As a budding historian, I love this memoir. It gives a unique perspective into what it was like to be a young Jewish girl during the Holocaust. It is an amazing story, written by a couragous girl and it can really open people's minds up to the whole story. It is definitely one of those books that you just have to read in your lifetime. The unedited version is great as well as the previous versions.

Review and reflection upon re-reading Anne's diary

It's my fault for following up a re-reading of The Catcher in the Rye with a re-reading of The Diary of Anne Frank. I feel overwhelmed by memories of my youth. The beautiful sunny day outside is fighting with my hyper-brooding and melancholy mood. I don't think I was ever as fascinating as Anne is in her diary. I know that I have never been so in earnest about anything. Here's a teenage girl reading books like I used to play video games and watch stupid movies. Here's a curious and Renaissance mind while mine has become complacent and clogged with jingles from television commercials.

Anne's explorations into her own mind and emotions are naked and honest. Her observations about war, God, love, the Jews, the Nazis, the British, and her family and friends emit alternating currents of acuteness and naïveté. Her sexual awakening is refreshing and innocent. Her understanding of her own psychology is penetrating, complex, and unfolds over the course of the diary. I'm amazed at the force of Anne's vibrancy. It appears that even the worst of circumstances cannot stop a life-loving girl from becoming a woman.

For all the wildness of Anne's thoughts and emotions, she gets closer to centering herself in the final few entries. As she quickly matures in the last quarter of the diary, I noticed the right side of the book becoming thinner and I didn't want the diary to end, because I knew what that meant. I swear that the closing pages of Anne's diary are haunted.

At some point in your life, you should read Anne's diary. I suggest re-reading it a few times throughout your life, in fact. It remains an important historical document but also an eternal reminder of youth, life, and love when the world around you isn't like you know it should be.

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A triumph of humanity in the face of thuggish brutality

The basic outline of Anne Frank's story is well-known. A young Jewish girl was forced to go into hiding with her family and others during WWII in occupied Amsterdam. After two years of concealment, they were betrayed to the Nazis. Anne died in the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen before her 16th birthday. She is generally seen as a figure of pity.

This was one of those books that I always meant to read and now, having finally gotten around to it, I find myself privileged to have met such an extraordinary person. After such intimate contact with her most private thoughts, it really begins to feel that she someone with whom I have spent some time. Anne was a talented writer, even at the ages of 13-15, and her diary presents a full portrait of a complex human being, not merely a noble sufferer. The nobility is certainly there, especially in the later entries, but so is the peevishness and self-centeredness of the teenage years. She presents her inner world so clearly that it becomes plain that the world lost a great voice and perhaps a great author when the Nazis murdered her. This document is one of the greatest indictments of the Holocaust.

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Better than I even remembered

Although I read this originally in seventh grade English class, re-reading this as an adult was even more moving. When I was twelve I didn't know what words like 'Gestapo' meant or 'The Third Reich'...in fact, I hadn't grasped the magnitude of The Holocaust until I was much older. There were so many ways that at twelve-years-old I could connect with Anne Frank, but as an adult (although the same pre-teen connections were there), my perception of who Anne Frank was changed drastically. I had been fascinated by her diary since I was twelve, and visited The Secret Annex in The Netherlands twice in an eighteen-month span. I strongly recommend to anyone who had a fascination with Anne Frank when they were younger, to read it again as an adult.

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She was quirky and lovable... and caught up in the hatred of stupid men

I'm extremely glad that the movie 'Freedom Writers' inspired me to buy this book from Amazon.com! This diary is one cheerful young girl's account of a semi-life in hiding from the Nazi's. No wonder it is the second most popular book in the world, only second to the bible - it truly brings history to life.

Even knowing the fate of Anne cannot smother the shock of reaching the conclusion of her diary. It's one thing to hear of the horrific things that transpired throughout the holocaust, but to read a 'private' diary and grow to know all the 'characters' mentioned in it, is to become even more uncomprehending of the horrors inflicted on these people based on their race.

Anne was obviously very intelligent, a talented writer, and possessed an enduring spirit. A story that emphasises the beauty that can be lost due to the evil of men.

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