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Title: The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
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| The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Harper Perennial The Lost |
| This is a good book but the effort to write this book and the passion, is greater. This is an indepth personal journey and you are in the experience, at times this is tedious but it is as well an enriching experience and engaging. There are appealing charachter stories but also descriptions of human torture and brutality so I say I think some sensitivity should be demonstrated in marketing books about the Holocaust, the material is true but it is brutal and should not be associated with words like "hilarious" on the back cover. I am referring to the review quote by Jonathan Safran Foer who describes the book as being "at times hilarious". I did not come across anything in the book that I would define as hilarious. |
| The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Harper Perennial The lost:a search for six of six million |
This book was excellent in expressing the thoughts of the author. It had so much factual information that made you want to search for your ancestors.
This ws not a easy book to read but well worth reading |
| The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Harper Perennial This is really a best seller? |
This book is painfully long and repetitive. I'm on page 35 and I doubt that I will be able to finish the entire book. Once you begin to get into the history of the family, the author veers completely off topic. Frustrating. Irritating.
I want to love this book, and I'm sure that there is a wonderful story somewhere in the mass of pages, I'm just not sure I will have the patience to find it.
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| The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Harper Perennial Wordy at times but well worth it |
| Reading this made me feel privileged to be invited into author's family. His writing style takes a little getting used to...a little repetative at times but his empathic approach to searching for his relatives in very touching. This story is so important as the survivors are scarce and their story needs to be documented. I'm not good at reviews..... The scattered black and white pictures seem oddly placed (untitled) but come to life throughout the book. One of the best Holacaust books I have read. And Daniel.....you are as good looking at Matt, Ha! |
| The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Harper Perennial Interesting, well-researched, but bigoted. |
I found this book to be well researched and the story telling was certainly superb, albeit annoyingly interrupted by the author boasting about his story-telling abilities. He could use the number one lesson given in every introductory writing course: show, don't tell. It is true that it is very wordy at times, which slows down the reading, but upon rereading, it is possible to make out what the author is trying to convey. However, there is a horribly amateurish quality about this book that made me cringe every time. In the descriptions of the characters, every Jewish person is conveniently beautiful, handsome, brilliant, and talented. Every non-Jewish person, is piggish, fat, ignorant, jealous and stupid. It makes me question the author's judgment, and quite frankly, as a non-Jewish reader, I can't help but be insulted by his bigoted views.
Overall, there is not too much new information here about the Holocaust, but a very-well researched family history written in an interesting way with some run-on sentences. I had to give it three stars because of the author's thinly veiled hate against non-Jews. |
| The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Harper Perennial Product Description |
In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history. |
| The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Harper Perennial Amazon.com |
| Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family's history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives. A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book). And you can watch his own moving introduction to the book in this short video: 
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