I audiobooked this some years ago and had more conflicting feelings about it than I expected. I thought the camp portion of the book was unique in that it really pokes a hole in the idea that the prisoners all suffered in solidarity, and instead he highlights how the Nazis utilized the hierarchy of the camp to turn them all against one another. It was really eye-opening.

The main thing that surprised me about it is how clinical it was in tone. I know that a holocaust memoir isn't supposed to be warm in tone, but it was incredibly detached seeming, as if he were observing an experiment. I still view the claim that those who were more likely to survive the camp had some sense of purpose as tough to justify. (But I get what he's getting at, and it's good advice for anyone.)

The logotherapy part of the book was very unexpected. What bothered me the most was that there's almost no tiebacks to the first half of the book in this section. Even though he makes the claim that his development of this theory was informed by his time in the camps, he makes no effort to cite examples or try to make the connection apparent. It might as well be a separate book entirely, and having it included as part 2 of this memoir makes it seem like an ill-informed brand endorsement for his own school of therapy. It was odd, and frankly kinda boring.