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Absolutely amazing book. It gave a clear picture of societal structure with its allegorical characters and incidents. You need to get some information about the Russian Revolution and know which characters in this novella represent whom as a prerequisite, otherwise it would just be a children story book for you. It is even relevant today in almost all kind of governments, especially as I can observe in my country, India.

बहुत मजा आया पढ़ के। सब कुछ जानने में यूरोप के उन जगहों के बारे में जहां लेखक यात्रा कर रहे थे। एक तरह से मैं भी उनके यात्रा वृतांत को पढ़ते पढ़ते यात्रा कर रहा था। Must read!

I liked ‘The Dream of a Ridiculous Man’ and ‘White Nights’ most. Rest all were boring stories but the in depth understanding of Dostoevsky about behaviours and nature of different persons fascinates me.

It was a very good experience to read this book. It uplifted my understanding and made me aware of the extremes that a human can survive, as many survived, in the concentration camps. It pushed me in deep thought about the extremely harsh conditions in which these people lived in the concentration camps - there identify reduced to just a number and life meant just to perish. But for them who survived, life had a different meaning, as discussed in the second part of the book - logotherapy. This was a different kind of psychotherapy when introduced which compelled the patient to find the meaning to live for. It explains beautifully what the meaning, in life, is, as the title of the book suggests. It was a thought provoking and insightful text, one should surely read this small book.

It was a great experience. It left me completely empty at the end of the read. I was just staring the room, the tiny details which I never noticed. The river of thought had frozen, almost like it disappeared. It was really wonderful, it gave me new perspectives, thoughts and ideas, increased my respect towards literature and demonstrated me the power of creative writing. Now I understood what reading one of the greatest works of literature feels like.

This was my first book outside my academic syllabus which I read. It was given to me in 5th class by my GK teacher ‘Vivek Sir’. It was local thin version of the original book in Hindi.

Saw one at Amer Fort library and got interested.

Suggested by Acharya Prashant, especially for youngsters.

Just came after Bodh Gaya trip and someone intellectual suggested me to read this to understand Buddhism.