David's Reviews > The Diary of a Young Girl

Did you not notice or did you forget that this is a DIARY of a 13, 14, 15 year old not a story to please others?!

Did you not notice or did you forget that this is a DIARY of a 13, 14, 15 year old not a story to please others?!

You are an ignorant piece of trash. She was FOURTEEN. It is not a fiction book either!!!!

Dear the writer of this review,
Burn in the freaking Fires - of Hell!!

I completely disagree. I still haven't read Anne Frank's diary, but I know her story. SHE WAS FOURTEEN. I'm thirteen, and I know how a young girl around our age thinks about the world, especially if it's during the greatest war of all time. She was just trying to make sense of what was happening around her. Live with it.

Well, she was also a 15 year old girl trapped in a closet during the holocaust. I'm not sure theological consistency was on her mind. If you can only enjoy a book for it's philosophical coherency, then you're probably reading books wrong. If you're looking for that from Anne Frank's diary, if you can't attach yourself to the human story at the center of this, then you're definitely reading wrong.

Nevertheless this "diary" should have never been turned into a book. Touching story but the booklacks the fundamentals to a good book.

Yes, I'm finding this book grating against my spirit. I'm avoiding picking it up!

Laura wrote: "Yes, I'm finding this book grating against my spirit. I'm avoiding picking it up!"

Millions of people have found that it uplifted their spirits; a child living an everyday life with her family yet under threat from one of the cruellest Governments , is something to be wondered at, not avoided.Give it a go, Laura.

If Anne was still alive today you would bd breaking her heart. She wanted so badly for her diary to get published. how could you rate this book only one star?!

Dude, do you relize this girl is 14 while your probablly like 72 eating potato chips and watching TV on your couch!!!! Ahem.. sense

What the hell are people not allowed to fucking criticize a book? Just because a book is a classic and a "very touchy" story doesn't mean you can't criticize it. Sure, it wasn't meant to be a masterpiece, but the writing is plain and she doesn't captivate her reader, and if you say that she didn't expect anyone to ever read this, you are completely incorrect: she mentioned at many times "the reader" and lets people read it.

I personally didn't give this book a rating, because the author never meant for it to be read

Rachel wrote: "I personally didn't give this book a rating, because the author never meant for it to be read"

She did actually, Rachel, and had already given her fellow occupants in their now famous hiding place fictional names for her hoped for publication of her diary after the war. She mentions in the diary how she heard on the radio the suggestion that people writing about their present circumstances might think of future publication. So, in fact, she very much wanted it to be published and read.
And guess what ??? ...that's exactly what happened !!!
Its in the diary...READ IT !!!

Well she is 14 and living in an attic, knowing that any day she could be brought to a concentration camp and killed. I don't know what you expect from her.

Have you ever though that the quotation in question lets her give herself hope? Bloody hell, put yourself in her shoes and you’ll be clinging onto the thinnest shred of hope; maybe even create some for yourself. It is precisely in light of the story that the quotation carries so much emotion and became so resounding.

Yeah, I think Ms Frank was 13 and knew she was facing a long painful death. Horrible that idiocy and hatred took such a brilliant writer (and untold millions on top of the 6 million) from us so young.

4 star from my side. thanks goodreads

Jing wrote: "Have you ever though that the quotation in question lets her give herself hope? Bloody hell, put yourself in her shoes and you’ll be clinging onto the thinnest shred of hope; maybe even create some..."

Spot on , Jing.
She wavered...despair was high on the agenda and its negativity is too often quoted. BUT she strived to HOPE, that although she might not survive...she had bitten down on that Cruel Reality...the world would survive, her book might be published,
and here we are all those years later, able to read THAT book. I read it at 13 and couldn't put it down ...and now I'm 70 and it's still on my shelf. Poor Anne is so often criticised for her being too positive...but better days were to come, not Perfect Days, she never meant that, but better-than-Nazi days.

Jhunjhunulive wrote: "4 star from my side. thanks goodreads"

A GOOD score, Jhunjhunulive, a VERY GOOD score.
Anne woulld have liked it !!!

cheers from Wayne, Sydney Australia.

David, this is a diary, not a book. It was not written to entertain readers, it was written as an insight into a girl's life. No opinion can be 'wrong' because it is an opinion. Things like believing the world is flat can be wrong because it is presented as a fact and that fact is incorrect. Opinions that are opinions cannot be wrong. You have no right nor authority do disprove the theological perspective of a German, teenage girl in the midst of world war two, because you have lived from the perspective of a German, teenage girl in the midst of world war two.

God...She was a kid not even knowing diary will be published.It was not suposed to be funny and quirky.

Yikes I hope you’re not an English teacher... even the best students would be failing on your account. Way to go, putting down an optimist who had every reason to be pessimistic...

Ok people I hate it when people so so much hate to people so I will just have u all know even my JEWISH friend agrees that this book is boring and that while the book was about Jews going through this hard time that the book itself if not very good even though it’s a diary not a book

this is not a review.all he wrote is a comment.is he a war denyer?

anne allen wrote: "this is not a review.all he wrote is a comment.is he a war denyer?"

I don't know. But he seems to be very proud to think that he is smarter than a 14-year-old.

It is amazing to me that an adult can be so childish in the face of a child who is so much an adult.

Is her view of the human heart wrong? Theologically? Yes, I agree that it is. The point is not that she's right, but that she is the kind of person who wants to believe it.

If you read this diary and that's all you came away with, you are to be pitied at least; perhaps despised.

I firmly agree with you. From a different angle, there is absolutely no difference between this "diary" and another ordinary teenager girl's one. Nothing special about it

This is Anne’s personal diary

Very poor trolling.

David Epstein, you should really think before writing.

She was a CHILD. and this was her PERSONAL PRIVATE DIARY.
Sir, you are absolutely pathetic and gross.

just say you’re a nazi and go

@irene Are you serious? There’s NOTHING different? What about the fact that she’s a teenage girl during the Holocaust?

" Why do Goodreads permit the publication of pathetic one star reviews like this childish vitriolic vilification? "

T e e n a g e r.

She was a young girl you soft skull slushy brain.

@Irene there is a HUGE difference lmao. She was a girl that lived in hiding during the holocaust. Yea I know you totally did that. 🙄

Ummm it’s not a story? Its a young teenage girls diary

This book is a masterpiece. Survive 6 years of brutal war, only then will you be qualified to criticize such a personal and emotional work.

What the hell? Why are you acting as if this is some kind of fictional novel? This was a real girl’s thoughts and life, not something for you to analyse and critique as if it were something crafted.

This ain't a fictional novel upon which an uninformed, attention- seeking halfwit such as (David G. Epstein) can poke criticism at. This is an insight into the feelings of a Jewish refugee in WW2. What were you (David G. Epstein) expecting it to be, some kind of Sidney Sheldon novel! Please (David G. Epstein), remove this atrocious comment at once. If not, reply to my message and we shall have quite a duel of the fates!

This is a diary written by a teenager. For God's Sake it's there in the title! You halfwit! Do you have any sympathy or empathy whatsoever!

This is the most pseudo-intellectual review I’ve ever read. You’re bottom of the dumpster garbage.

See you in hell, David

I suggest that we end this futile debate. Lashing out at an ignorant fool is mere stupidity

Nah…it’s a really good book and should be available in every library and on everyone’s shelf. You’re overlooking the facts that a.) it’s not a story (though we know what you meant), b.) she was a young girl in hiding from NAZIs, c.) it’s translated, d.) why is the field of theology relevant to a conversation about this book?

you're acting as if this was written by an author, it wasnt. It was written by a teenage girl, as a diary, she didn't intend for anyone to read it in.

so? so what if her comment wan't THEOLOGICALLY CORRECT? She was a fucking 13-15-year-old who had to HIDE for 2 YEARS and was then KILLED. Who cares if her thoughts weren't theologically correct? Think about what's important.

Wtf old man