Reddit reviews Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

You can read it via waybackmachine here, yIKES

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"I’ve applied every ounce of the researching laser beam that Cambridge gives you as a result of 3 years to try and find an example of a girl who is 23 years old or younger when they publish their first memoir. And I couldn’t find a single example of one that had a positive life. Famous examples are Malala and The Diary of Anne Frank. They literally had to survive the Holocaust and be shot and left for dead on a bus. That’s what it takes to get a young girl a memoir."

http://www.amazon.com/Anne-Frank-Diary-Young-Girl/dp/0553296981

The Kindly Ones by Jontahan Little.

A masterpiece - I've read it several years ago and some parts of it still haunt me. A truly dark and powerful book - don't think I've read anything else quite like it.

Also Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith.

I guess it's not surprising books taking place during ww2 and in Soviet Russia fit the bill of making the outside world look like a Utopia - other of this genre will probably make good candidates - Anne Frank's diary
and the Island on the Bird Street would also crush any heart as would many others dealing with the darkest time in human history (quite an achievement - humanity has had a lot of dark periods).

This a great contest! Sadly I can't enter as I have for books. I hope the person that wins receives a totally rad book! Heart everyone

Edit: Because I've told... I don't know how I've never managed to read The Diary of Anne Frank, but I really want to. <3

Again, to anyone reading this questioning whether they should continue their education - I point you to these comments.

These are the thoughts of someone who is intellectually bankrupt. I can't imagine the anguish and utter hell you must live in, to be either fully incapable or fully uninterested in learning a bare bones outline of the history of the last century. But then again, they say ignorance is bliss.

Wikipedia is a multilingual online encyclopedia with exclusively free content and no ads. It is the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Walters

Further reading:

https://www.amazon.com/Anne-Frank-Diary-Young-Girl/dp/0553296981/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2BGTU1OTLE40S&keywords=anne+frank+diary+of+a+young+girl&qid=1556809315&s=gateway&sprefix=anne+frank%2Caps%2C186&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Martin-Luther-King-Jr/dp/0446676500/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=martin+luther+king+jr+biography&qid=1556809342&s=gateway&sr=8-2

Would you like to read something that shows what happens when countries are governed by fascist despots, liars and thieves? Like now in America?

try this

I gave my brother (who never EVER reads, and doesn't like "hard books") How to stop time also by Matt Haig, he read it in one sitting and then went out and got the rest of his books and read them all in a couple weeks. Christopher Moore is also great, Sacre Bleu is my favourite.

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for non-fiction: Letter from Birmingham Jailby Martin Luther King, Jr. anything by Audre Lorde or James Baldwin and Anne Frank and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks for showing him how to appreciate life.

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How could no one have mentioned "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl"?!

The Diary of Anne Frank

If you read 2 books this year, then also read this: http://www.amazon.com/Anne-Frank-Diary-Young-Girl/dp/0553296981

check her diary

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Guess no one has ever seen clerks 2