"Huge disappointment. It's one of those ever present books on everyone's "20 must-read books" list and it seems (perhaps because of these types of lists) to be more readily available in bookshops. I can only think it's gained notoriety for being on everyone's must-read lists rather than for being a great book, because great book it isn't.

I can summarise the book in one sentence: "people need to have a purpose in life." This may have been new in the 1940s. If I were reviewing the book in 1946 I would have given the book 5 stars. If I were reviewing the book as a classic of psychology, 4 stars. But reviewing it, as I am, from the perspective of self help literature in 2016, and in light of the huge hype this book gets, it's a 1 star simply because today, for me, it adds nothing new.

The Holocaust descriptions are very interesting if quite emotionless, but I didn't read the book for that. (I would have been better off reading Elie Wiesel for that.) The remainder of the book is a pretty dull quite repetitive academic text about logotherapy.

I fail to understand the hype around this book, and the endless 5 star reviews it gets on 欧宝娱乐...I suspect the 5 star reviews are simply because people THINK they should love it, because everybody else says they love it. A sorry case of groupthink."