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Mar 16, 2018
The most vivid and horrifying portrayal of Hell I have ever read. Most frightening of this depiction is that Hell is a real place - and it had the names Auschwitz, Dachau, and Mauthausen - and the author lived there for several years, which he describes in the first half of this book. Somehow, the author, Viktor Frankl, found the will and resolve to make his time in Hell mean *something*, and then explains how this could even be possible in the second half of the book. This book moved me. Perhaps not because of the clinical psychological approach Frankl details for attributing meaning to life, but because it exposes the reader to the types of absolute horror which humans are capable of inflicting on each other. Not for the faint of heart, but a very important must-read nonetheless.