Huge and Horrifying: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

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Huge and Horrifying: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

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Title: The Kindly Ones | Author: Jonathan Littell | Publisher: Vintage | Pages: 984 | Publication date: 21st August 2006 | ISBN: 9780099513148 | Source: Library
Content Warnings: holocaust, anti-semitism, racism, homophobia, extreme violence, rape, sexual abuse
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@majelthesurreal5723 4 ай бұрын

I'm in the middle of The Auschwitz Detective and will need a palate cleanser when I finish. This will not be my next book but maybe in a few. In his much maligned Oscar acceptance speech the director of Zone of Interest said that as well. This is where dehumanization leads - mass slaughter and 'normal' people going along. I visited Dachau, far from the town and Nuremberg but not Auschwitz. Now, because of the movie, I will forever think about how close that camp was to the family of the camp overseer.

@mcraig1969 4 ай бұрын

I can deal with supernatural horror and enjoy gothic horror immensely; however, I don't think that I could handle this book of the true horrors of the Holocaust. Thanks for the excellent review . Your observations have led me to some great reads and have also given me a heads up for the ones I should avoid as someone who suffers from PTSD and Acute Anxiety Disorder.

@shereadsatmidnight 4 ай бұрын

Lolita meets The Painted Bird just sold me on this. I’ll wait until the sun comes out here though

@CriminOllyBlog 4 ай бұрын

Hope you like it!

@tobiasschumacher8602 4 ай бұрын

Oh, I remember that one. This was released back in the days when I was a bookseller myself. I'm usually not squeamish (I hope this is the correct word), King, Koontz, Lumley, Laymon, Ketchum, I've read them all. But this was the first book that I had to put aside after every few pages because I couldn't take the violence anymore. Don't get me wrong, it is a brilliant book and I loved reading it, but, oh boy, that was tough...

@CriminOllyBlog 4 ай бұрын

Yeah it’s definitely hard going. And yes squeamish is the right word

@jackthereader 4 ай бұрын

Huge and Horrifying? Olly… I’m gonna need you to stop plagiarising my Grindr…

@Reading975 4 ай бұрын

😂

@CriminOllyBlog 4 ай бұрын

😂😂

@anotherbooktubechannel 4 ай бұрын

How dare you make this joke...slightly earlier than I was able to on the Discord 😂

@CriminOllyBlog 4 ай бұрын

@@anotherbooktubechannel you can always rely on Jack to stick something filthy in quickly.

@jackthereader 4 ай бұрын

@@CriminOllyBlog Oh, so now you’re stealing from my school records?! THAT RECORD MADE MY MOTHER CRY!

@cb7560 4 ай бұрын

I read this when it first came out, and it was a very powerful book. Well worth reading.

@VanessaButtino 4 ай бұрын

I purchased a used copy of The Kindly Ones online a couple weeks ago and it just arrived in the post a few days ago. Cannot wait to read it (especially now after having watched your review).

@ilselauwers6009 4 ай бұрын

I found Les Bienveillantes ( I ‘ve read it in its original form)a fascinating book and in parts a must read for all young people . Because it really forces you to think about what role you would have played in WO2 Germany . Also the ice cold observer Max becomes in the face of so much violence is confronting. But then again it is about survival in a living hell situation. I should read the English version to see how close the translation stays to the original text .

@Krzemieniewski1 3 ай бұрын

Dr. Maksymilian Aue is my favorite fictional character. This book deserves to be adapted into a film, but without any filter of tampering or censorship. One of the greatest works of literature of its period.

@murlocshamab7308 Ай бұрын

I Guess the gangrape scene commicted by child-soldiers against a barely puberescent girl at Page 800/900 something Is supposed to be toned down a Little , expecially since the character sees It in a full wiew no cut And also something else , but this Is the main

@wibre8753 4 ай бұрын

I read The Kindly Ones just a few months ago. It's a powerful novel in a lot of ways, but some of the long information dumps that Littell lays on the reader are a bit much. He went on for many pages about Ukrainian dialects in one passage, for example. Still worth reading, though.

@duanespurlock5879 4 ай бұрын

I don't make a habit of reading books that disturb me, but sometimes--rarely so much these days--they suck me in. I've not read this one. Perhaps the first such book I read was Norman Mailer's THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG, another big book about awful stuff that was tremendously readable.

@tommonk7651 4 ай бұрын

I am not familiar with this book, but I have read and studied a ton of books about WWII. I just checked Audible and discovered that probably my favorite narrator Grover Gardner narrates the audiobook. Gardner did The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which is tremendous. This is now in my cart....

@elliyo4286 4 ай бұрын

You are 100 percent correct. We need to be reminded, more and more now, how easy it is for something so horrible to occur. With the rise of right-extremism everywhere, antisemitism in particular still always being present. I think I would need a long time to read through this, months, and need some pauses, but I think it may be going on my list.

@peterpuleo2904 4 ай бұрын

Less than half way through, this book was too depressing for me. It went back onto the shelf.

@yuleham 4 ай бұрын

Have you ever read any Iris Murdoch? I think you might really enjoy The Sea, The Sea. It’s my favorite book. Also a nice tale of delusion

@suzannehorton3146 4 ай бұрын

wow..it seems like it may be too disturbing for me. Since my father came from the second world war..i have hear first hand of the horrific things he has seen as a youth. ..how hate grew towards anyone who was not German..its quite scary how something so horrible can happen.

@rosysulla 3 ай бұрын

Max Aue is insane. A great book. Finished it for the 4th time last week. The final part with Thomas still messes me up.

@DDB168 4 ай бұрын

I haven't read it and have been looking forward to this review. I've read Bloodlands (Tim Snyder), and Hitler and Stalin (Laurence Rees) - both non-fiction that cover this subject. I lked those both a lot. I have read some reviews of this book though and it has made me baulk at reading it, not withstanding your recommendation. I'll have to think about it.

@jackschleich9475 4 ай бұрын

I wish I cleared this up earlier, but I didn't. I saw the original notice novel is 125 physical book and 18 dollars second edition ebook. I was looking to buy the second edition physical book of this, but can't seem to find it on Amazon. I also wanted to tell you that my introduction to you was not a disturbing book, but your video about alcoholism.

@OrangeLibrary 4 ай бұрын

I have a concept for a fictional account of WW2 although a lot less disturbing. I cannot bring myself to write let alone publish it because it might be offensive to REAL Holocaust victims and survivors. I am thinking however about making a KZfaq video talking about it (I wrote a 2 page essay of my idea). I don't know if I can or should though.

@notvcinema8741 3 ай бұрын

Have you read A Sentimental Novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet? I have a PDF of the book. I've been putting off reading it, though.

@CriminOllyBlog 3 ай бұрын

I hadn't heard of that. Just googled it and I will not be reading it lol

@notvcinema8741 3 ай бұрын

@@CriminOllyBlog The book is very hard to find a physical copy in English. I saw one for sale for a hundred dollars US. I was starting to wonder if the book really existed before I saw that copy. The publisher doesn’t have any plans on having it reprinted. Maybe they want it to be forgotten about. The only reason I have a PDF is that they sent it to me when I asked about a reprint. Plagued by Visions, declined when I asked when I asked them for a copy. I uploaded it to a book site, so it’s freely available.