View all 85 comments. I'm really surprised by the number of people who thought this book was boring. I could understand how an adult man might find the musings of a young girl rather dull, but how can people in general not find this journal utterly fascinating? Here is a teenage girl who up until the end wrote with the same emotional consistency as when she began. Whoever thinks this books is boring is because they simply fail to realize, or even imagine the conditions in which this diary was written under.
To think I'm really surprised by the number of people who thought this book was boring. To think how this young girls personal life continued beyond the details of the war is rather remarkable. What would anyone else have written about in their diary as young boy or girl in the same predicament as the Franks? Anne is surprisingly strong and mature for her age, impressively intelligent, and although there was a World War going on, her own particular world never abated.
Her personal life was just as important, if not necessary in order for her to survive the day to day living conditions at the Annex. Yes, there were brief moments of panic, but she had to live life, even if her living space was limited. She carried on as if being in hiding was a mere temporary inconvenience.
She wasn't going to let that rob of her of her right to claim her passage into womanhood.. Here I thought I was about to read the semi-interesting scribbles of a blooming young lady, with ambiguous references to the war. But there is nothing cryptic about her diary. She shoots straight from the hip in this incredibly and shockingly honest account of what life was like for her and her family living in hiding during the WW.
It's not what I expected at all. I expected something rather tame, but it's far from it. This young girl was very interesting and quite special. You can't read this journal and think it's just an ordinary diary of a young girl, because it's not. Anne's diary is a representation of how other Jewish families lived and coped during the Nazi war. That's a pretty powerful thing. Many people don't realize how fortunate we are thanks to Anne Frank, her Father Otto Frank and Miep Gies to have some insight on how it must have been for the Jews to coexist this way.
Because of Anne, we have an idea of how it was like to live under floorboards, in between walls, and behind bookshelves. This diary humanizes and brings back to life the Jewish people who mysteriously disappeared but who had not yet died. I love this diary and I'm so grateful to have read it. It must have been extremely difficult for her father Otto Frank to read his daughters diary after her death.
View all 7 comments. Jun 12, Dr. Appu Sasidharan rated it it was amazing. Reread Review I never knew that a book could make me so emotional until I read this memoir for the first time during my high school days. Every time I was quarantined during this pandemic, I thought about Anne Frank and her family. When I found it difficult to stay indoors for just 14 days during each quarantine, the Frank family had to hide in the Secret Annex for two long years. That too at the backdrop of the world war and the holocaust.
This young lady had to go through many horrible c Reread Review I never knew that a book could make me so emotional until I read this memoir for the first time during my high school days. This young lady had to go through many horrible conditions in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Anne Frank shows us the horrors of one of the most brutal acts of cruelty in world history and the importance of freedom in a human being's life.
This is a must-read book for everyone. View all 8 comments. Dec 05, Tanu rated it really liked it Shelves: reviewed , classic , autobiography , non-fiction. This is an autobiography solely based on Anne Frank's diary. Even today after 73 years this book is widely famous among us. So what makes this book so special? Well, this book was never written to get published, or even that someone will ever read it for that matter. If you write a diary entry you must be familiar with the unfiltered, raw, and original emotion behind writing it.
As this was not a planned book, so there is no unexpected twist but this book is worth a read. Please don't presume i This is an autobiography solely based on Anne Frank's diary. Please don't presume it to be a sad story, Anne Frank was a very jolly person which you can see in her little stories that she shared every day with her diary "Kitty". I was so amazed to notice how a teenager's writing can be so strong and thoughts can be so clear.
It inspires me that even after so much chaos and fear around how positive and hopeful she was. Get a copy and read it you beautiful people, you will definitely feel more grateful towards life. View all 4 comments. Sep 05, James rated it really liked it Shelves: 1-fiction. Many are first exposed to this modern-day classic during their middle or high school years, as a way to read a different type of literature from that of an ordinary novel.
In this diary, young Anne express her thoughts both positive and negative over a two-year period during which her family and friends are in hiding during World War II and the Holocaust. For most of us, this is one of the few ways we can actually read or hear the words from someone who was actually there and went through this, especially if you don't know anyone who was alive during this time period in the s and s in Germany and the surrounding areas.
I read this in my 9th grade English course, and I remember disliking it a lot. Not because of the way it was written or published, but due to the topic. I dislike anything about that time in history. But I later re-read it and had a different level of appreciation for the value a book of this type can bring. Unlike The Book Thief, it's raw and natural in its words.
It's not this extraordinary novel by any means, at least to me, but given how it came about, what happened to her and the way she expresses everything, it is definitely a great book.
Everyone should read some passages from it at some point in their life. About Me For those new to me or my reviews I write A LOT. Leave a comment and let me know what you think. Vote in the poll and ratings. Thanks for stopping by. View all 9 comments. May 13, Whitney Atkinson rated it really liked it Shelves: audiobook , read-in , made-me-cry , memoir , goodreads-top , need-to-reread. I really wish I had a different translation of this book because this one lacks a lot of the personality and ease compared to the audiobook version I partially listened to.
But this book should definitely be one of the books you read before you die because it is so tragic and enlightening. Nothing makes me angrier and sadder than seeing someone with so much potential and excitement rave about their passion for life, and in the end, never made it to accomplish their dreams, or see their work publ I really wish I had a different translation of this book because this one lacks a lot of the personality and ease compared to the audiobook version I partially listened to.
Nothing makes me angrier and sadder than seeing someone with so much potential and excitement rave about their passion for life, and in the end, never made it to accomplish their dreams, or see their work published. Anne surprised me with how real and relatable she is, and she really seems to grow into her writing style and throughout the book you can note a change in her maturity and the way she describes and reflects on things. Had this book been easier to get through it would have been 5 stars, but some parts just dragged for me.
Apr 18, Michelle rated it it was amazing. When i was reading this book it didnt actually feel like a true story until i got to the end and i felt like i was missing the last 20 pages - then it sunk in what had happened. I sobbed while reading the Afterword. A must read. View all 11 comments. May 09, Danielle rated it it was amazing.
Actually I wasn't going to review this book at all, since I read it way back in the seventies, and if I remember correctly, did not finish it. But yesterday, just for the heck of it, I went through some one-star reviews. Two things I noticed immediately - most people disliked the book because it was boring, and Anne had a sanctimonious attitude. They were of the opinion that the book became a classic only because of historical reasons. Looking at it dispassionately, I have to agree. I was even mor Actually I wasn't going to review this book at all, since I read it way back in the seventies, and if I remember correctly, did not finish it.
I was even more interested in the negative comments on those reviews. Whatever be the quality of her writing, the consensus was that the author was a saint and therefore above any kind of criticism. This viewpoint seems to me rather silly - anything published for general consumption is open to both positive and negative reviews. The second most common comment was that this was the diary of a teenaged girl, and never meant to be read for its literary merits - and I do agree with this.
Those who criticise based on the quality of the writing is missing the mark, I feel. As with any diary, its primary merit is as a first-hand account of an important period in history. I read it when I was roughly Anne's age. I could visualise for myself the claustrophobic nature of their apartment, and I wondered at a regime which forced a certain section of its citizens to hide themselves in fear of death.
This was my first serious exposure to Holocaust literature: and it built in me a passion for history and a lifelong antagonism to fascism of any kind.
This was an important book in my life. View all 21 comments. I adored charming and witty Anne. She managed to do what so many others never accomplish in their writings: she brought me into her world without any effort.
She feels like a close friend, like part of the family. Moreover, I was impressed of how emotionally intelligent she is, how muc 4. Moreover, I was impressed of how emotionally intelligent she is, how much she grows up in such a short time. And through the whole book my heart was broken because I knew the end. The unfairness of life, the wrongdoings of so many other people, actually the whole climate which got Anne and her family and millions other killed, all of these are despicable.
It will stay with me for years to come. View all 3 comments. Feb 01, Saadia B. CritiConscience rated it really liked it. Altogether 8 people lived in a small cramped up space. The only crime committed by them was that they were Jews, who were either persecuted or sent to jails by Nazi forces because of their faith.
She started writing this dairy because she felt that paper was far more patient than people. While living in a closed space she kept fighting with her mom who always taunted and made fun of her, which sometimes infuriated Anne but mostly she maintained her cool. Her dad always supported her but at times he even gave up on her when she misbehaved with her mother.
The Daans were also living with them, she started liking their son Peter and finally confessed her love to him. She always wanted friends, not admirers. She wanted people to like her character and deeds, not just her flattering smile. Anne wanted to be a journalist or a writer in order to leave her mark in the world.
For almost 2. However, their hiding came to an end as they were arrested and sent to prisons. This dairy is filled with horror, humor, everyday life and how Anne and others in those dreadful conditions tried to live in hiding until someone came for their rescue. Anne would always be cherished for her valor, silliness and authenticity which she kept despite living in such horrible conditions.
Jan 27, Mia rated it it was ok Shelves: memoirs-biographies , translated , cant-beat-the-classics. I am basically a terrible person. This isn't a review- I'm not going to go into my reasons for giving this book 2 stars. That would not do anybody any good. I will simply say that I feel extremely guilty rating the book this low, but I hope people understand that it doesn't reflect my view of the Holocaust as a whole, or my views of Anne Frank as a person.
I have the utmost respect for both. Her daughter had I am basically a terrible person. Her daughter had a hairpin, a beautiful golden thing with topaz and pearls, and it was passed down to me. I never got to meet my great-grandfather nor Fanny his girlfriend , but she put the pin in a box and gave it to my mother with these words written on it.
I was still a baby, and neither of them would live past my second birthday. That pin is a lot like this book. Whenever I look at it, nestled in my jewellery box, I feel the weight of generations of guilt pressing down on me.
Its owner is long gone, and yet I feel the strangest thing- simultaneously connected and disconnected. I am in possession of something that unnamed girl loved, just as reading Anne's diary, and there's an eerie sense of abandonment in the object being left behind but their owners having perished long before their time. Granted, I'm Jewish, but I can't help but feel that simply by being alive and knowing of the Holocaust and of genocides in general, I am doing them a disservice. In the wake of tragedies like this, there is nothing to say, there are no words, so I'm not going to waste this review talking about the merits and downfalls of this book.
It is not mine to critique- this is the diary of a real girl who really did live, and so pointing out its flaws is a vain pursuit, in that it is so inextricable from its owner, just like that topaz hairpin. There is a time and a place for criticising memoirs without criticising their authors, but now is not the time nor the place. Suffice it to say that I feel like an awful person for rating this so low, but I will not budge on it.
One of my core principles is that I judge books in and of themselves, and how they stand on their own- it is impossible to do so here, with the text so linked to the history. I don't know what to do with The Diary of Anne Frank or that hairpin. They remind me to never forget the tragedy, but how could I anyway?
I don't own them, and I never can- they're relics, relics that do not and cannot ever belong to anybody but their original owners, and so I suppose I'll always feel like I'm keeping watch over the prized possessions of two girls who are never coming back to retrieve them. Quite an interesting fellow. View all 41 comments. Readers also enjoyed. About Anne Frank. Anne Frank. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
See this thread for more information. Her father moved to the Netherlands in and the rest of the family followed later. Anne was the last of the family to come to the Netherlands, in February She wrote a diary whil Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
She wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. She lived in Amsterdam with her parents and sister. During the Holocaust, Anne and her family hid in the attic of her father's office to escape the Nazis.
It was during that time period that she had recorded her life in her diary. Anne died in Bergen-Belsen, in February , at the age of Books by Anne Frank. Articles featuring this book. Read more Trivia About The Diary of a Yo Quotes from The Diary of a Yo Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Welcome back. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. The Rory Gilmore He also reinserted some of the passages that Anne had left out when rewriting her diary. In , it turned out that Otto had withheld a diary letter in which Anne was very critical of his marriage to Edith. The Secret Annex was published on 25 June Otto compiled the book from Anne's rewritten version, her original diary texts and some of her short stories. He also corrected the language errors in Anne's texts.
In , a scientific edition of Anne's texts was published. The diary When reading about The diary of Anne Frank , most people assume that a single diary is all there is.
When does Anne get her diary? When does Anne start writing? In which language does Anne write? Anne wrote in Dutch. On occasion, she used German or English words. Anne addresses her diary letters to Kitty. Who was Kitty? What happens when Anne has filled up the diary she had been given? The last entry is dated 5 December By then, she had been in hiding in the Secret Annex for five months. The diary was not completely filled, there still were several empty pages.
Anne added some texts at later dates, for instance on 2 May and on 22 January Anne apparently considered the diary to be full and continued to write in notebooks.
She would receive these notebooks from her sister Margot and the helpers. The notebooks have not survived see below. The two notebooks from have: one covers the period from 22 December - 17 April and the other from 18 April - 1 August Anne's last diary letter is dated 1 August , three days before the arrest.
Does Anne only write in her diary? No, Anne wrote much more: Tales. Anne wrote 34 tales. The inclusion of the pages in a biography of Frank sparked a copyright furor , and they were only released in a new critical edition of the book in But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you. Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault.