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Lol @ Meyer's photo

Alas. You should read the definitive version.

Lolololol! OMG! Totally with you on that.

LOLOLOLOLOL at the Stephanie Meyer photo. Made me forget you only giving Anne Frank 2 stars :3

You love books about the holocaust?

You "couldn't care less"...Um, what?

Emma wrote: "You "couldn't care less"...Um, what?"

I think she meant she could not care less about THIS BOOK. Not the Holocaust. She said she likes books about the Holocaust. Read people...

Adrian wrote: "Emma wrote: "You "couldn't care less"...Um, what?"

I think she meant she could not care less about THIS BOOK. Not the Holocaust. She said she likes books about the Holocaust. Read people..."

I know that, but this book is ABOUT someone who went through the Holocaust. Have a little respect? She couldn't care less about someone who was murdered and locked away in a concentration camp?
Nice...

Emma wrote: "Adrian wrote: "Emma wrote: "You "couldn't care less"...Um, what?"

I think she meant she could not care less about THIS BOOK. Not the Holocaust. She said she likes books about the Holocaust. Read p..."

If you read statements I made elsewhere...you'd see I like this book myself. But, alas, she is entitled to her opinion. Though I keep telling people on GR and elsewhere...this is not a work of fiction and Anne was a child when she wrote this.

Adrian wrote: "Emma wrote: "Adrian wrote: "Emma wrote: "You "couldn't care less"...Um, what?"

I think she meant she could not care less about THIS BOOK. Not the Holocaust. She said she likes books about the Holo..."

I never said you didn't like it. I just think it's very cruel to say that you don't give a damn about someone who went through what they did.

Emma wrote: "Adrian wrote: "Emma wrote: "Adrian wrote: "Emma wrote: "You "couldn't care less"...Um, what?"

I think she meant she could not care less about THIS BOOK. Not the Holocaust. She said she likes books..."

How old are you? /:) The writer of this review (as silly as it sounds) is talking about the WRITING STYLE and the WRITING ITSELF. Not the PERSON who wrote it. Observe she said about Anne...

"On the up side, I firmly believe that Anne Frank, if she survived the war, would have grown up to be a marvelous, best selling writer. At the age of 13 her words are better then that of many current, famous authors."

You have waaaaaaaaaaaay too much time on your hand to be griping about this.

Dudes, chill out. I said the way it was written and presented doesn't interest me. Of course it makes me sad that she, like millions of others was killed. I never used the terminology "don't give a damn about someone (getting sent to a concentration camp". Chill out Emma.

Definitely check out the definitive version. It's really good. A lot of this version was edited by Anne Frank's dad I think.

Synesthesia wrote: "Definitely check out the definitive version. It's really good. A lot of this version was edited by Anne Frank's dad I think."

True. There's so much that was "sanitized".

1) where do I find the definitive version
2) It's still really weird to think that this is not a story about her, this is her story. She wrote it. And she was 13 when she did, so I think it's quite unfair to say what you did
3) I love books about the Holocaust too.

Isidora wrote: "1) where do I find the definitive version
2) It's still really weird to think that this is not a story about her, this is her story. She wrote it. And she was 13 when she did, so I think it's quite..."

Exactly..

Get it on interlibrary loan, man. Or order it. It's awesome.

Good thing you aren't a writer, your words aren't much better then (sic) that (sic) of Meyer..

Good assessment, from a seven line review.

Than*

Exactly what I would have put! I couldn't finish it.

Love the meyer part! X

Don`t get what is all the fuss about. I couldn`t care less, either. We`ve got this teen girl talking about her boyfriend. What`s to "respect" there?

Cartavio wrote: "Don`t get what is all the fuss about. I couldn`t care less, either. We`ve got this teen girl talking about her boyfriend. What`s to "respect" there?"

Actually, I can see what there is to respect. The problem is me, not the book.

If anything, maybe the respectful thing to do might have been keeping the diary unpublished.

Cartavio wrote: "If anything, maybe the respectful thing to do might have been keeping the diary unpublished."

I've often felt that she spends much of the book being a typical teenager. It is only toward the end that she begins to explore what it is to be human and what she wants to do with her life to contribute to the betterment of humanity. I think the real tragedy is that she was intelligent but not yet mature, and never got a chance to reach maturity.

That's how I feel too. I'm so not into this. Have you read Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum? Amazing book.

And you have all missed the point. Congratulations on being so shallow that you are concerned about could have beens, adolescent crushes, etc. You get to go outside and breathe fresh air. You hopefully know where your next meal is coming from and that the people providing the ingredients for that meal are not risking their own lives to make sure you eat. You are not limited to only speaking at certain times of the day and you have, I am sure, a view out a window that is larger than a crack in the blind that allows only for the sight of the top of a tree. Either version, condensed or not, gives us a peek into the daily hardships of an oppressed people doing whatever they can to survive - a lesson that we can all learn from in these troubled times. You know the end - it is not a happy tale but a cautionary memoir that was published in order to ensure one thing and one thing only - that we, as a part of the human race, do not ever forget and that we fight these atrocities even still today maybe in smaller numbers with different kinds of weapons, so that all of the Anns of the world can breath fresh air, go to school, be treated humanely and with kindness - and that YOUR final moments are not spent choking to death in a gas chamber. Suck it up and read the book. It isn't very long and the only reason I can see anyone being unable to finish it is their own fears about the reality of human nature.

I acknowledge this, but even still have been unable to finish the book. Now I am more mature, I will be trying again soon. Suck it up and accept other people can have contradictory opinions to your own.

Eileen wrote: "And you have all missed the point. Congratulations on being so shallow that you are concerned about could have beens, adolescent crushes, etc. You get to go outside and breathe fresh air. You ho..."

All your long, patronizing, self-righteous rant deals with things which are NOT in the book. Being kind, the only lesson that you can "learn" from it is painfully obvious: that at the bottom of the unspeakable horror lied only common people living unremarkable lives, just as yours and mine.
You really can`t think of other reason for not finishing the "Diary"? I`ll give you two: being a diary, it`s utterly BORING and AIMLESS. "Suck it up".

This is a diary. By a teenage girl. Just a diary.
If it were written by another girl, who wasn't Jewish, who wasn't hiding from the Nazis, you would be ripping it apart because it is just boring and a typical writing of a teenage girl.
Most people are afraid to criticize this work because they'd then be deemed as "antisemite" by idiots who have nothing better to do.
This book sucked. I'm sorry for this girl's life. I too went through war as a teenager, and I kept a diary and guess what- it sucked balls.

Wow, you take shallow to a whole new level, Jess. REAL LIFE - of a REAL GIRL, terrified for herself and her family. Living on scraps, a bucket for a toilet - to be used sparingly and by all; taken by the Nazis and treated worse than rats - and you couldn't care less??? Wow. That speaks volumes. Maybe you should stick to Disney Princess stories with 'happy rainbow endings'. This girl was not out to 'entertain you, or to even be a writer at all. She wanted people to KNOW HER STORY - and he stories of others like her. But, shallow people don't get that and couldn't care less.

Irene wrote: "Wow, you take shallow to a whole new level, Jess. REAL LIFE - of a REAL GIRL, terrified for herself and her family. Living on scraps, a bucket for a toilet - to be used sparingly and by all; taken ..."

I really don`t get you, peole. Hasn`t any of you read "If This is a Man" by Primo Levi? Haven`t you read "The Gulag Archipelago" or "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"? Now those are really heart-shrinking accounts of Nazi and Communist totalitarism and genocide in the XXth Century. Has it come to you that maybe, just maybe, it is the super-hyped-Anne-Frank fans the ones who are being shallow?

You are the one who misses the point. Anne Frank didn't write for literary recognition, nor was she writing a piece on genocide. She was a KID, documenting her experience beecause her diary, 'Kitty' was her confidante and companion. She was a kid going through hell with her family, as others were going through hell all around her. That annex was their haven for a short while. It spared them only for a litttle while before they, too, were exterrminated. Only her father survived - and her 'kitty' told of their ordeal. Nothing shallow in that. It was one more story of the horrific life imposed by the Nazis. A little girl let the world know how she coped. That's all. Stop comparing it to literary works written by adults with writing experience.

Irene, darling, in the Big Real World people have different opinions from you & will not always have the same taste as yourself. Sorry not sorry.

I, personally, found the book riveting, but I feel it is a little unfair to attack Jess as she doesn't "diss" Anne, and says that she is sure she would have become a marvellous writer, had she been given the chance. We are entitled to our opinions. I have seen some horrible reviews of this book. Jess, however, has only said she couldn't finish it. I take issue with people who have been horrible about a 13 year old child who can't defend herself, but not with someone who just finds that it is not to their personal taste.

Finally, someone mature!

I understand how you feel. Though I disagree, I liked it anyway Stephenie Meyer's picture at the end...I see what you did there. Hehe.

I’ll have to disagree with Vincent. Anyone who can create controversy on two different accounts (albeit we have yet to hear from the Stephanie Meyer people) and make a hilarious and painfully true comment on the state of literature in the modern world, and do it only seven lines, probably SHOULD be a writer.

I respect your opinion, Jess, but I'm afraid I beg to differ.
I mean, Anne was a girl. Over the course of the book she went from being 13-15. Just a kid, living through- and being one of the victims of -one of the worst and scariest times in recent history. And this was her DIARY. The only unjudgemental friend she had in the annex. I'd also like to point out- she didn't choose for it to be published. She wasn't writing to entertain. In the newer, complete editions, those are the exact words of that teenage girl, spilling her heart out.
I understand- it wasn't the most riveting account out there. But it was a document of the final years of a girl's LIFE. That should count for something, shouldn't it?

Same here. I tried to finish reading it but I tend to put it down. I'm not sure if I am just busy or anything.

Always fascinates me what type of books can hold the interest of different people (I read this when I was 12 and was enthralled)

I seriously couldn't agree more, i cannot for the life of me pick it up and finish it off.

This was so amazing and all the things it had were just so interesting and so unbelievable i taught it was the most wonderful book I cant even describe it in words

I felt like you when i started to read it, i know some of people complain about the saime thing..maybe it because at the beginning she was just 13, but by the end of the book she grew older. It got much more interesting and better written. Give it a chance. As much as i hated it at the beginning,as much i loved it by the end.

Well, you shouldn't say that because if Anne read that she would destroy you. She is a child who decided to help the world.

^wot

I guess the whole work goes to the translator, you can't say she is a great writer if you didn't read the original version

Yeah Im sure the Dutch version of Twilight is beautifully written.

I'm also having a hard time reading about her and her mother fighting. the van Daans are rude and the only thing keeping me going are the ones about the war.

You do know that it is a true story. Right?

Odinia wrote: "Actually it is a fraud. The girl who supposedly wrote it actually died of typhus & it is written in ball point pen, which had not been invented yet."

Seriously? Wow! I had no idea about the whole ball-point pen thing.