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    <body><![CDATA[This book was recommended to me as a wonderful read, filled with spiritual strength.  Unfortunately, I had a very different experience with it.  It greatly disturbs me that so many women have been duped by this book.<br/><br/>It's a memoir of Martha Beck's spiritual struggle as she gives birth to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20415369">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Memoirs are tough.  They lie in that fuzzy grey area somewhere between truth and fiction, and are, by definition, the subjective experiences of someone you may or may not like.  This book is, shall we say, less grey than most--I would actually call it a novel.  <br/><br/>I had nothing else to read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12696787">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really agree with Jenni's review of this book.  There were parts in it that were really fantastic, and the author definitely has talent, but so much of it was contradictory and offensive.  I hated how Beck wrote that she detested the arrogance and superiority at Harvard, but she makes it VERY clea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7594556">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Extremely well written.  Has some brilliant moments.  But in the end, I just couldn't get past the WAY creepy feeling the book gave me.  I know a lot of people that love it...but I  think the author is a walking contradiction: not sure of what she believes, what is truth and what is fiction.  If you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7550203">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;...you'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been hurt by remaining closed.&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;...then I understood. She was talking about the soothing, singsong language mothers speak spontaneously when they talk to babies. Baby talk is found in all nations, all cultures; it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9020931">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So good.  So much to say... true story, and I love Beck's writing style.  <br/>Here's the hook:<br/>Beck is in a PhD program at Harvard.  She gets pregnant, has amazing visions and intuitions during the pregnancy, like seeing what her husband sees as he is in China (or somewhere).  She finds out t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2954647">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm glad that I knew the author's background and history before reading it because she seemed a little confused throughout the book. She teeter-tottered between atheism and spirituality. The author claimed to be anti-religion but also claimed to be having spiritual experiences throughout her pregnan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10755284">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book describes the author's experience of carrying to term a Down's Syndrome baby while she and her husband were graduate students at Harvard in the 1980's. The juxtaposition of this non-practicing Mormon family's religious heritage, intellectual milieu, and vivid spiritual experiences made thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49996416">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here's the review I wrote on Amazon a couple years ago when we read this book for book club:<br/><br/>As an LDS woman, Harvard alum, mother, and friend to someone who has Down Syndrome, I anticipated loving this book. I somehow imagined that Beck's experiences might have mirrored mine, that I woul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31519676">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not exaggerating when I say this is the most beautiful book I've ever read.  It's about a subject I've been fascinated by for a little while now and yet one that so many people seem so tight-lipped about.  I remember a church leader telling our student congregation my freshman year of college th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31201226">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although Martha Beck has some writing talent and this book is in some ways a very interesting read, the drawbacks make it more of a one or two star read.  <br/><br/>In spite of it being a one plus or two minus star read, I admit I was wanting to know what would happen next and read it quickly.  As...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23243812">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I received Expecting Adam by Martha Beck as a gift when I was about 14 weeks pregnant with Harriet. That's the time when one is tested for possible genetic abnormalities like Down Syndrome. Expecting Adam is Beck's memoir of her difficult pregnancy with Adam, her son who has Down Syndrome.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21149007">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend told me about this book.  It is not something that I normally would have picked up on my own.  It is the author's autobiographical story of her second pregnancy.  During the pregnancy, she found out through amneosenthesis (sp?) that her son would be born with Down's syndrome.  By the way, b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7836792">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oddly enough, another one of my all time favorite books.  Martha Beck and her huband are both caught up in the world of academa at Harvard University and find themselves expecting their second child, only to discover he has Down Syndrome.  An amazing story of how they prepare themselves for their so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6002364">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I waiting for three months to be available at our public library and when I'd finished it, I wondered why???  The book itself is told by a mother who found out that the baby she was expecting had Down Syndrome.  It tells of some of the experiences she had as she and her family came to terms with her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22747253">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll be honest, it's been such a long time since I first read this book it's hard to pinpoint exactly what it is that I loved about it. I remember that at the time I was concerned about diversity issues on my college campus because of my job and that I felt like this book was shouting the answers ou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14239786">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I was reading this book the first thought was, wow, she really likes to let people know that she went to Harvard. Even as the book progressed I had a hard time and had to stop a few times. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy the book; I just had a really hard time with the reaction that so many people ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12767505">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I stopped reading this book midway through it.  I am pregnant and felt that the images of miscarriage were a little too much for me.  I also felt this was a very emotional book and I'm focusing on keeping my vibe positive for this pregnancy.  <br/><br/>This author interests me, mostly because of w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16206608">more...</a>]]></body>
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