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Post by Dominique on Oct 15, 2006 4:50:54 GMT -5
I found it deeply interesting reading about the cramped conditions, the strained relationships, the hardships but also the joy Anne Frank experienced while living in hiding in a warehouse in Amsterdam. At times it can get tedious reading very emotive entries about her situation that often conflict, as she is clearly working out how she feels on a number of issues from love to her family relationships, world politics and life in general through writing about them - rather than having decided upon them and scribing them down. Reading the diary made me feel as though I shouldn't ever complain, for surely any problems I experience could never amount to what Anne endured, remaining cheerful and full of life many a time despite loneliness. She gave into self-pity frequently but never to despair. Her family relationships were interesting and not without problems, but easy to understand and relate to despite their complexity. Her intellegent but emotionally distant mother, the sister she was around to much to feel able to confide in and whom she had difficulty in understanding and her beloved father whom she admits she knew little about. Her often swooning entries about Peter that switch back to critical distanced analysis occassionally I could also relate to. The loneliness she felt must have been so overwhelming, despite the fact she was surrounded by people for so long. It reminded me of the way many young girls test their friendships with males, not knowing where to define it or if they want more. Reading the note completing Anne's story where her diaries end was very upsetting, the characters seemed so real by the end of the diary that I had develpoped an attachement to them
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Bina
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Post by Bina on Oct 16, 2006 11:15:57 GMT -5
I´ve read this book a couple of times and last year again to check the translations . It´s really an amazing and very intense read. The ending was horrible since I felt I knew Anne and then she just stopped existing because they were betrayed and deported.
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katiaisme
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
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Post by katiaisme on Oct 16, 2006 15:54:21 GMT -5
This book is on my to read pile.
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neh
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Post by neh on Oct 16, 2006 16:16:33 GMT -5
Mine too, for certain. This is random but - as i think in terms of film and images often - if it were ever to be made into a film again, a younger Emmy Rossum in my mind would have been ideal to protray Anne... (i'd say also Nat Portman but she got to do it onstage, so she's had her turn!)
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carl3y24
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Post by carl3y24 on Oct 17, 2006 11:24:51 GMT -5
I read this book in grade school but I think I might read it again when I finish The Jungle and if i have time before we start The Purfume
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czarval
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Post by czarval on Oct 17, 2006 12:22:58 GMT -5
I've read it a few times. Even though I almost have the storyline down by heart, I still find something new that I hadn't noticed.
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Kristie
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"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Oct 19, 2006 17:23:30 GMT -5
I read this last year during school and I really liked it. But from what I'd know of the Anne Frank experience was something I thought would be really boring and still and quiet since that's how the family had to be during the day. But I was really surprised because I was expecting dull and depressing and found out that Anne was really a great girl and there was definitely some drama in the attic...I hadn't imagined them to have so much fun there though, thinking that they could be found at any moment. But boy was I surprised.
"Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there, as long as you live, to make you happy again." -Anne Frank (Wednesday, February 23, 1944)
"People can tell you to shut up, but they can't keep you from having an opinion." -Anne Frank (Thursday, March 2, 1944)
"What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again." -Anne Frank (Sunday, May 7, 1944)
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rosemint
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Post by rosemint on Jan 8, 2007 4:18:45 GMT -5
I read this book when I was young, saw a movie about it too.. The book was nice but the movie was too real for me when I was young.
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
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Post by Kristie on Jan 8, 2007 18:17:26 GMT -5
we read the play out in an english class then we went to see the play. i got to read margot in class. but i liked the diary a lot more. whenever i think of anne frank's experience, i think about audrey hepburn because they were both practically the same age and in the same country. both became famous, for different reasons, but i think that anne would've been famous had she lived. she wanted it so bad and she would've fought for it.
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shels
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Post by shels on Jan 10, 2007 15:59:47 GMT -5
oh i absolutely loved this book. i really found it so great about her experiences and how she made it fun living in hideout. i agree with everyone else that it really was so sad her dieing in the end because you definitely felt a connection there. i really think it was fantastic though how her father found her diary and decided to get it on the shelfs. he obviously must have had a hard time reading it and reliving everything that happened to them, but it was just something he had to do for his daughter so that the world knew how horrible things were. it took real guts and it was just a compelling book
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bookworm148
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Post by bookworm148 on Jan 31, 2007 11:09:12 GMT -5
It's on my to be read list.
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frozeninside
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Post by frozeninside on May 22, 2007 12:31:19 GMT -5
I read this book last year. It pained me to read it and not in the sense that it was bad book but just from what happened in it.
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
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Post by Kristie on May 22, 2007 14:32:32 GMT -5
Yeah, it pained me too. But I think I was more surprised than pained because she was so happy and vibrant, even in such despair. I had thought her diary would be filled with a sense of impending doom, but it wasn't at all.
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Maggie!
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Post by Maggie! on May 22, 2007 21:16:42 GMT -5
I´ve read this book a couple of times and last year again to check the translations . It´s really an amazing and very intense read. The ending was horrible since I felt I knew Anne and then she just stopped existing because they were betrayed and deported. That is how I felt, I only got half way through the novel, I couldn't stand knowing that she was going to die, she was so hopeful, and her voice was so unique.
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Post by Carma on May 23, 2007 11:10:59 GMT -5
I haven't read it.. and I don't think I will... it just doesn't seem interesting to me...
I know the story, and I've been to the place they were hiding in Amsterdam, that was really interesting.. but I'm not sure about the diary... maybe because I had so much about her at school, it got boring to me...
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