P&C review Glutenberg, a gluten-free IPA, then, along with special guest Longinus, discuss Elie Wiesel’s Night.
We’ve covered some hard topics, but this was the most difficult. The book chronicles Wiesel’s experiences leading up to and then during his confinement in Auschwitz. The story takes you through all the small steps on his journey from being a boy who wants nothing more than to study Kabbalah to an innocent who is sentenced to a living Hell.
I have studiously avoided that book. Maybe one of these days I will have to read it, when I’m in the proper frame of mind.
When my youngest started high school, that book was the pre-freshman year summer reading assignment. I always thought that was a terrible idea. Fourteen is not the right age to read that. That may have been the only year they did that.
I agree that 14 is too young for that book. But why do you avoid it? I’m not saying you have to read it, just wondering why you studiously avoid it.
Only because it is obviously so dark and depressing, and not usually what I’m drawn to in reading. Not because I find it reprehensible or anything like that. However, I’m open to the idea that it might be rewarding to take the plunge someday.
You’ve inspired me to read the book again.