Saya benci mengatakan ini, tapi saya harus akui saya hampir menangis (99.9%)sewaktu menamatkan bacaan.

Bayangkan, seorang gadis yang mengongsikan dengan kita kehidupan hariaannya di tempat persembunyiaan 'Secret Annexes, mengongsikan dengan kita semua luahan hatinya, dan sepanjang tempoh dua tahun itu,melalui pembacaan kita dapat lihat perubahan mental dan emosinya, hingga kita rasakan dia benar-benar seorang sahabat atau adik yang kita kenal, tiba-tiba dia diragut dari kita begitu saja. Dan sekaligus kita diingatkan bahawa dia tidak akan dapat mengecap nikmat kebebasan yang sangat diimpikannya apabila dia sebenarnya telah tertangkap dan mati dalam keadaan penuh tersiksa fizikal dan emosi dalam tahanan pihak Nazi.

Saya mengagumi hampir semuanya tentang Anne, kecantikan, kecerdasan, kebijaksanaan, kedalaman emosi, keupayaan merumus diri sendiri, pemberontakan jiwa dan bakat penulisan yang luar biasa pada umur semuda itu...dan saya bersedih kerana dia tidak dapat menunaikan impian-impiannya hanya cuma kerana dia hidup pada satu zaman yang tidak membenarkan impian menjadi kenyataan.

Dia menulis diarinya lama sebelum saya lahir, namun membaca diari beliau membuat seolah-olah seluruh emosi dan perasaan terdalam beliau mengapung diantara ayat ke ayat baris ke baris dan seterusnya bangkit menjadi satu jasad yang lincah di dalam bayangan saya. Homage utk Anne Frank.
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It's important to look at the experiences of many people during a troublesome time period in our country. This is the revised edition of The Diary of Anne Frank which includes all the parts that were edited out of the original. Readers will be able to fully experience the emotional and physical pressures of trying to hide from Nazis in a tiny attic as told through a 14-year-old girl's point of view.

The message of this book is to inform people of a person's first hand experience of the Holocaust. I liked this book for many reasons. One reason I liked it was because of the description of the characters. Anne's description of her parents are very detailed and you can tell that as she ages her image of her parents changes and she becomes more understanding of her mother. Another reason I liked this book was because of the way it was written as a diary. It becomes easier to relate to and flows well. ( )

I was 14 when I first set my eyes on a copy of Anne Frank's diary. It was the first "adult" book I ever bought on my own. I had seen the film the year before, and it had torn my heart out of my body and stomped on it continuously for several days. Why on earth I thought that it would be easier to read the book is a mystery to this day. Yet, I bought the book. It would be only the first copy I would purchaae through my life. The revised critical edition is probablly the last copy.

I wasn't sure that it was possible to make one of the greatest books ever written any better. But, then, I didn't know how much material had been cut by various editors (including Anne's father, Otto). The editing was done because of the morals of the days in which it's been published -- after all, would you want your little girl to learn about sex from a dead kid? Even if what the dead girl said wasn't very racy, even in the 1950's?

Fortunately, this edition doesn't worry about such tiny things. It's much more concerned with presenting the first real, unaltered look at the lives of Geman Jews who went into hiding rather than be taken to a death camp by the Nazis. It's about what a young woman thought, did, and didn't do. It's about being stuck in a small attic for months on end, unable to move about during the day for fear that someone working on the floor below might hear a noise, Can you imagine not even being able to go to the bathroom for 8 hours because the sound of urine hitting the water in the toilet might alert someone?

Anne Frank is not an angel. She had the same wants, needs, and pretensions that every little girl has had since the beginning of the species. She could be a brat -- and on some occasions, even a bitch. She and her mother never got along well, possibly because she was very much like her father. but also probably because she was a lot smarter than her mom (a problem with which I could appreciate since I shared it). She could be funny when she wanted to be, but also very serious when it was necessary. I suspect that, even at the end, after they had been arrested, she was able to keep hope alive that she would be rescued. And she certainly didn't deserve to die of typhus anymore than she would have deserved to be murdered in any of the other myriad ways that the Nazis developed over the years.

If she was alive today, she'd be 85. She might have had great-grandchildren to bring her flowers and love. Instead, she will forever be a young teenager, full of potential and hope, looking forward to the day when she could walk down those stairs from the Secret Annex to join the world again.

"It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery, and death. I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that this cruelty too shall end, and that peace & tranquility will return once again."

If I could write just one paragraph as insightful and beautiful as this one, I would die a happy person. Thank you, Anne, for giving us your love. Because of you, I believe people are mostly good, too. ( )

Anne tries to live a normal girl's life while simultaneously depicting herself as the heroine of an adventure book she is writing. ( )