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 Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:12 pm
I just wanted to see what you readers thought of this book. smile
I read it by choice sometime during high school, and I was really struck by it. Any thoughts?
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:03 pm
Personally, I loved this book. It was really emotional and it was true. I can't imagine what it must have been like. Some parts were a bit disturbing (like Anne's suggestion to her friend...?) , but overall, I thought this book/journal was great.
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:12 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:14 am
As much as I like history, would you believe that I have still not read this book? sweatdrop I want to, it's just that I get distracted by other books so easily... *hides*
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Romantic Conversationalist
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:41 am
I was kind of astounded when I read it, because I saw so much similarity between Anne and myself. I was surprised to think that a girl who lived through a horrible war and died decades before I was born could have thoughts and feelings so like my own. I guess The Diary of a Young Girl was just one of the first books I read at an age when my concept of the world was expanding, so it happened to have such an impact on me.
In addition to that, because it was her diary, Anne wrote such private things in there. Things about coming into womanhood and about her feelings for Peter that I doubt she would have written about publicly had she lived to become a writer. Her suggestion to her friend didn't disturb me, really. I was more surprised that she actually said it than that she thought it. But perhaps that's just me.
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:40 pm
I started reading it a few years back but I had to stop reading it due to other books. I also get distracted XD
I'll pick it up soon.
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:24 pm
Fairgrass Her suggestion to her friend didn't disturb me, really. I was more surprised that she actually said it than that she thought it. But perhaps that's just me. I agree. I mean, at first I was rather weirded out, but the more I thought about it, the more I began to take it as you wrote it; I was more surprised that she said it and wrote it than thought it.
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:25 pm
Azalea Verde Fairgrass Her suggestion to her friend didn't disturb me, really. I was more surprised that she actually said it than that she thought it. But perhaps that's just me. I agree. I mean, at first I was rather weirded out, but the more I thought about it, the more I began to take it as you wrote it; I was more surprised that she said it and wrote it than thought it. That makes sense...I also find basically the entire book disturbing. It's so tragic, and I can't even begin to imagine how impossible life must have been. We can only hope history doesn't repeat itself.
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:50 pm
When I finished it I wanted to cry because it kinda finally hit me how the people that were killed were just like us, and how awful it really was. >_< Really good book, though.
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:46 pm
I read it during middle school. I liked it. I think it was a condenced version, or dramatized though, because I read the play.
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:32 am
I was really thoughtful when I read the book. She was young when she wrote this so I believed she could have exaggerated just a little when she spoke of how cruel her mother was. But I thought it was a powerful novel with conflicting emotions and a sadness that seemed almost tragically beautiful. When I was finished I just starred at the book for a couple minutes before flipping back to my favorite qoute: "...and inspite of everything I still believe that people are truly good at heart..."
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 1:47 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:42 pm
It was really sad. If Anne didn't give up hope, she might have stayed alive and we could have heard the entire story. Anne was actually a good reminder of how hope keeps you alive.
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:37 pm
TempusBliss I couldn't have put it better myself. I have to admit, I watched the movies and I um..."sped-read" the book because I was writing a speech on it and only had one night to write it (do to my procrastination). Though I want to re-read it so that I can actually take my time and absorb everything. I think it was a shocker because the story is of a girl who lives for hope and is suffering so much. It makes you think about your life or what you would have done in that situation.
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:08 pm
We read it in class in eighth grade. I loved it. It was such a moving and powerful story, especially since it really happened. I cried when I read the ending.
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