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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a lot like a Chinese meal: thoroughly enjoyable at the time, you can't put your chopsticks down until its finished, but later you don't feel full and wonder at the insubstantiality of it all.<br/><br/>This book has been called a fake.  Lots of books about women in Arab countries have ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37005947">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The ways in which woman are treated in certian parts of the world and by certain people are horrible and disturbing. Just as I said when I reveiwed PRINCESS, this story is enough to make you cry with its details of rape, exucution and marriage of young teenagers to old men. Through this book you com...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39755935">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first chapter of this book actually starts when her father finds out about <em>Princess</em> and realizes that she must be the anonymous Saudi princess who wrote it (due to personal family events that are in it), and he calls a huge family meeting to throw the book at her face.  Very intense.  The majori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29627190">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Much as I thought the first book, Princess, was well-written and an important read, I was disappointed in this second book about a Saudi princess.  While the behavior of both of Sultana's daughters is shocking, what I really got a taste of by the time I finished the book was how poor of a mother Sul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23484081">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book an interesting glimpse into the Arabic culture.  It made me really appreciate the freedom that we have in the West. I applaud the authors bravery in bringing things into the open and also the courage of her menfolk in daring to believe that things can change, albeit slowly.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the first in the series, &quot;Princess&quot;.  Not as fond of this book.  Pretty much the same.  I can't believe at times that this woman is an adult at times.  She seems to act just like a spoiled princess at times.  It still saddens me that women are so degraded.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary story, PRINCESS, were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. Now, Jean Sasson turns the spotlight on Sultana's two teenage daughters, Maha and Amani.    <p>As second-generation members of the royal family who have benefited from Saudi oil wealth, Maha and Amani have never known the poverty which their grandparents experienced as children. Surrounded by untold opulence and luxury from the day they were born and which they take for granted, but stifled by the unbearably restrictive lifestyle imposed on them, they have reacted in equally desperate ways.    <p>Their dramatic and shocking stories, together with many more which concern other members of Princess Sultana's huge family, are set against a rich backcloth of Saudi Arabian culture and social mores which are depicted with equal color and authenticity. We learn, for example, of the fascinating ritual of the world-famous annual pirlgrimage to Makkah as we accompany the princess and her family to this holiest of cities.    <p>Throughout, however, Sultana never tires of her quest to expose the injustices which her society levels against women. In her couragewious campaign to improve the lot of her own daughters of Arabia, Princess Sultana once more strikes a chord amongst all women who are lucky enough to have the freedom to speak out for themselves.</p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second book in Sultana's three books where she depicts her life as a mother raising children in a very one sided and biased world.  I enjoyed the first book more but it makes me very grateful for the freedoms that I have.  On to the third book!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read all three books in this trilogy &quot;Princess&quot;, &quot;Princess Sultana's Daughters&quot; and &quot;Princess Sultana's Circle&quot;.   I read one after the other and can remember where one ended and the other began. So my review here is a composite of all three.  The books are a memoir a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36395705">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was hard to read about all of the horrible things that the women had and continue to endure.  It was hard to read, but I think important to learn about how women are treated in this culture.  I really admire the Princess bravery to tell her story.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was less enamoured with this book than the 1st one.  It is interesting the path that her daughters took to cope with their situations.  I do feel sorry for them as women, but again, I can't help but think the plight of the millions of poor women around them is worse.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this book really gives an insight of the lives of the women in Saudi Arabia..how they are being deprived of freedom as compared to women elsewhere.. not only that how the rich and famous live in Saudi.<br/><br/>The way the men treat women there are just so appalling..<br/>no respect but just sex ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6317472">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Even less believable than the first one. If it's no secret to her family who's writing these books, why hasn't she been treated to the same punishments others she speaks of receive? ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Book 2 about Sultana was very interesting to read.  I enjoyed this story and love Sultana's unquenchable spirit.  The plight of women in Saudi Arabia is quite sad to read about and some of the stories are so disheartening but I enjoyed this book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Book 2 of the princess trilogy. I am fascinated with this woman.Very good book and will sure to instill a vast variety of emotions in the reader.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[membaca buku kedua ini rasanya lebih santai walaupun masih ada beberapa hal lain yg masih mencengangkan, karena sudah dicekoki yg unbelievably serem dibuku pertama. yang paling deg-degan buat aku adalah pada saat buku princess ditemukan oleh kakak laki-laki sultana di bandara di germany dan dia memb...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31227313">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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