"Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl

Translated from German into English by Ilse Lasch. This is a reread for me. I originally read this book 10+ years ago and thought it was just okay. Because this book gives a lot of people strength, and I didn't get much out of it, I though maybe it just wasn't the right fit for that phase of my life. Maybe I should reread it once I was older. More than a decade passed by, now I've reread it, and I'm surprised to find that I liked it even less this time around. The author survived the Holocaust, and the first half of this book is about his time in several camps. Initially he didn't want to write it under his own name, but did so anyway because he needed it to make his case for logotherapy. I think it's very brave for anyone to be able to share their suffering like this, and any sort of log from a survivor is historically valuable in my eyes, so in that way, I appreciate that he wrote what he wrote. What I found harder about this first half, was that Frankl mostly wrote as if his…