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3,096 Days

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On 2 March 1998 ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was snatched off the street by a stranger and bundled into a white van. Hours later she found herself in a dark cellar, wrapped in a blanket. When she emerged eight years later, her childhood had gone. In "3,096 Days" Natascha tells her incredible story for the first time: her difficult childhood, what exactly happened on the...more

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Apr 02, 2013 Alejandra added it

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No sé exactamente cómo darle una calificación a este libro. ¿Me gustó lo que leí? No. En lo absoluto Pero, ¿me gustó leerlo? Sí. Muchísimo. La diferencia es simple. Natascha es una joven que nació en Austria, que fue secuestrada a los diez años y permaneció así durante 3,096 días (calculando, unos 8 años y algo). Sólo por si no lo saben, es una historia real,escrita por la muchacha secuestrada. Leí el libro en una tarde. Durante su lectura, te das una idea,probablemente no muy acertada, pero una...more

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Jul 29, 2011 Suzydumeur rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

D'habitude je n'achète pas les livres "d'actualité" ou les récits de ce genre (fait divers, autobiographie actuelle...) mais j'avais écouté une interview de Natascha Kampusch à la radio, et cette personne m'avait beaucoup touchée dans le sens où sa voix était bizarrement monocorde et sans émotion. J'ai voulu savoir si elle s'en était sortie (je m'intéresse aussi à la résilience). Le livre est plutôt rassurant car l'auteur fait preuve dans cette expérience épouvantable d'un immense sens de l'adap...more

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May 17, 2013 Andrea Madriz rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: austria, ebook

Wow. I don't know if my English vocabulary will be enough to describe everything I felt reading this (so expect a lot of grammar errors), but I feel the need of doing it in English hopping this way it will be read by more people than writing this in Spanish, because I think everybody should read this book. Well written considering this girl has nothing else than basic education, provided mostly by herself and her incredible desire of superation, inside and outside her imprisonment.
This woman, s...more Wow. I don't know if my English vocabulary will be enough to describe everything I felt reading this (so expect a lot of grammar errors), but I feel the need of doing it in English hopping this way it will be read by more people than writing this in Spanish, because I think everybody should read this book. Well written considering this girl has nothing else than basic education, provided mostly by herself and her incredible desire of superation, inside and outside her imprisonment.
This woman, since she stopped being a girl earlier than usual, is the most brave woman I have ever met. This book is incredible human because is written by the principal actor in the story, with a truly perspective of the feelings and mechanisms she had to developed to survived. The major sign of human intelligence is the hability of adaptation to new situations, because that's what survival relies on. And that's what she had to do (although after her autoliberation she was judge by the public opinion for developing this mechanisms, totally involuntaries since she had no idea they were growing inside her mind, she didn't had other choice and they were necessaries for her spiritual, physical, psychological and emotional survival).
She is an incredible woman. She never forget who she was no matter how much mental manipulation Priklopil practiced on her. Is this manipulation since she was a little girl what creates her "mental imprisonment", an illusion of total dependence on her abductor, of being less than nothing, that creates the false idea that she wouldn't be able to scape. She explains this manipulation so good in her book, that we start to understand why the victims of family violence don't leave either. What I will never understand is how we,as a society, can be so cruel to judge this people. "Why doesn't this person leave? Maybe he/she likes being bitten" "Why this girl didn't leave her captor sooner. She had some opportunities. Maybe she really didn't want lo leave him" NO! That's not it!! It's a mental inability to believe in their selves created for the agressor's lies.
She achieves to autoliberates herself, first from her mental imprinsonment, and this gave her the power to actually physically leave, and she is judge by us because she wants to rule HER life HER way, because she refuses to give the morbid details necessaries for us to really feel sorry for her (otherwise she doesn't deserve our sympathy, which, by the way, she had NEVER ask for). Now Natascha and her story are not enough for our expectations.
And knowing how difficult is to grow healthy, to achieve "normally" in this society, even in a regular family, I ask myself: how many of us, who judge Natascha, would be able not only to survive but to keep the hability of being happy, of not being defined by such a horrible experience and be able to move on and built a happy and normal life?
So, yes, I feel incredibly proud of this woman that I had never met except on papers and news. She is not only brave and intelligent but an amazing human being, for being able to feel sympathy for a very sad little man in an ambient of sadness, crazyness and torture, for never let herself go, and for go on.
I wish this book means closure for her, and she can star what she always dream for herself.(less)

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Jan 30, 2013 Valerie Shampine rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: True crime readers

Shelves: memoir, non-fiction, true-crime

A rare look at a kidnap victim's story, after she was able to escape her abductor after 8 years imprisonment. Her true tale from her own perspective, including her feelings about her kidnapper, and the Stockholm Syndrome, among many other things.

Natascha Kampusch was taken by Wolfgang Priklopil in 2006 when she was only 10 years old, on her way to school. She was locked away, sleeping underground in a basement-like dungeon, where she was eventually starved, beaten, and treated as a slave. Later...more

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Aug 19, 2012 Cindy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: psyche, missbrauch

Nach einer kurzen Liegezeit habe ich mich dem Titel "3096 Tage" von Natascha Kampusch gewidmet.
S. hatte es noch im letzten Jahr entdeckt, es gelesen, und mit den Worten "ich bin enttäuscht" an mich weiter gegeben. Da ich dieses Buch aber gern selbst haben wollte, kaufte ich es mir in der Weltbildausgabe, welches die Taschenbuchausgabe ist.
Ich habe angefangen zu lesen, und ich war sofort drin. Natascha Kampusch hat alles so beschrieben, dass man sich sofort in einer bildlichen Darstellung wieder...more

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May 10, 2012 Pooja Jeevagan rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is a book one can't really rate...because no humane person can like it...and you can't say it's bad...it's, to be simply put, dreadful...

And then again, most of us won't b able to remotely identify with the girl...so I didn't find it odd when at so many places I was shaking my head...thinking that she never tried enough...or wondering if the book is just dragging (oh, not to forget I am d one who craves on fiction...this genre, true and sad's mix, is a lot too tough for me in any case)

I don...more

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Mar 12, 2012 Maurice Conchis rated it 3 of 5 stars

Jeg læste om 3.096 dage i otte timer...

En god bog om en syg sag - og det kendte plot gør den til en pageturner. Første del omkring hendes barndom var ikke særlig stærkt skrevet, men ligeså snart hun bliver hevet ind i den hvide varevogn tager bogen fart.

Enkelte gange blev jeg i tvivl omkring, hvor meget hun selv siger tingene, eftersom hun bruger flotte ord, og jeg går ud fra 8½ års fangenskab ikke ligefrem stimulerer ordforrådet, men så igen, hendes bortfører underviste hende.

Hun er en meget s...more

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Oct 21, 2011 Riana rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: trauma, current-events, psychology

it is hard to rate a book like this with any number of stars. i applaud ms kampusch for having the courage and strength to make it through the ordeal without losing herself, and to process it in part by writing down her story.

in my opinion, her account gives very good insight in the damage that is done not only to the body, but also to the mind and soul of the victim of a violent crime. she describes in a detached way the mechanisms her mind resorted to, like feeling compassion for the abuser a...more it is hard to rate a book like this with any number of stars. i applaud ms kampusch for having the courage and strength to make it through the ordeal without losing herself, and to process it in part by writing down her story.

in my opinion, her account gives very good insight in the damage that is done not only to the body, but also to the mind and soul of the victim of a violent crime. she describes in a detached way the mechanisms her mind resorted to, like feeling compassion for the abuser and dissociating during abuse. it sounds a bit like she feels a need to justify her behavior and - most definitely - to educate her audience; sadly, in the latter point, i agree with her.

it is shocking to hear how she perceived "ordinary people" outside of her prison as indifferent and bored. when she finally asks for help, the woman whose door she rings says "so why are you coming to me?!". just imagine. and yet, does it surprise anyone? it does not surprise me.

i agree with ms kampusch when she says that society needs "monsters" like her abductor an abuser, such spectacular cases where everything seems so clear, where pointing fingers to "the bad one" is so easy - just so that they can forget about what is happening maybe right next door, about the crimes done to their own children's friends, or maybe even their own children.

in some parts of the book, i feel that ms kampusch generalizes a bit too far, based on her own story. i dont think she can make a substantial statement on whether or not there was more than one perpetrator in the dutroux case, where the victims lived through a similar, yet different kind of nightmare, and survived it with their own coping mechanisms.

on the whole, the book is reads like a detached, factual, analytical account from today's perspective. it does not go deep into emotions, barely at all; and maybe this is why it feels a bit "dry", or at least different than what i and maybe others expected.

in any case, writing this book just the way she did it was one step on the healing path of this courageous and strong woman, and as such, it is valuable beyond any stars or critiques. (less)

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Sep 10, 2011 Celia Lynch rated it 2 of 5 stars

I have to say I agree with most of Chic Flick's comments.
I am glad this young woman lived to tell her story. I'm pleased she made a life for herself.
However, as she described in her book it is very like being locked inside an abusive marriage
Having read the book I felt very unsettled and unhappy that I hadn't tried to break out of my prison. I was the bird in the guilded cage. Married at 17, 2 young sons by the time I was 19. Married a few days when I was told I was not allowed see any of my...more

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Aug 03, 2011 Lauren Hopkins rated it 4 of 5 stars

I was happy to finally get an English copy of Natascha Kampusch's memoir in Berlin, as it's something I've been looking forward to for quite awhile. When she was ten years old, Kampusch was kidnapped by a man who wished to control her and turn her into his "perfect woman." She writes well (with some assistance) and really attempts to put us in her place as a young girl trying to survive in a place most people could never possibly imagine. She goes into detail over some of the more harrowing expe...more

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Oct 13, 2012 Austenlove rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012

Wie soll man so ein Buch bewerten.. Natürlich ist sie keine professionelle Schriftstellerin und es ist auch weniger ein Roman, als viel mehr ein Bericht.
Es hat ja nicht sehr viele Seiten, trotzdem war ich überrascht, wie schnell ich es ausgelesen hatte. Ich hab eigentlich nur einmal kurz aufgehört zu lesen und es sonst in einem Rutsch durch gehabt.
Es war ein gutes Buch, es war sehr bewegend und man musste sich immer wieder daran erinnern, dass es wirklich passierte.
Ich denke ich fand nicht so...more

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Jul 06, 2011 Femke rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011, true-story

Ik kan bij dit boek alleen maar zeggen, kippenvel. Wat een verhaal. Ik had gewoon constant het idee in mijn achterhoofd zitten met dit is niet echt, dit kan gewoon niet. Maar helaas is dit wel echt gebeurt. Zij beschrijft constant de beweegredenen voor de dader om haar te ontvoeren en hoe ze door wilskracht de ontvoering overleefd en uiteindelijk ook weet te ontsnappen. Wat ik knap vindt is dat zij haar dader niet als dader ziet maar als de man die wel een aantal jaar voor haar gezorgd heeft. Al...more

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Mar 22, 2013 Walter Villalobos rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Bajo la piel del secuestro

Desgarradora. La historia bajo la cuál nos mueve la protagonista y autora del libro, es sin lugar a dudas dura bajo todas las perspectivas. En el modo en que va narrando pequeños trazos de su vida, y la manera en que habla desde una primera y tercera persona; hace confrontar al lector, y es que simplemente no hay escapatoria. Es un libro de lectura fácil y rápida, en el sentido estricto de complejidad, pero duro como ninguno respecto a la temática y el sentimiento plas...more

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Dec 31, 2012 D.M. rated it 5 of 5 stars

It's hard to know how much of Kampusch's memoir of her days in captivity are absolutely true and how much is her memory several years removed from the time, but if even half of it is this is still a remarkable story. Not that I for a moment doubt the physical facts, but her emotional memory from more than a decade past is surprisingly rich. She does a thorough job of explaining her own emotions, motivations and sheer fear during her time in her kidnapper's cell underground. Her descriptions of t...more

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Apr 02, 2013 Sarah Russwurm rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Rating a book that is not supposed to be enjoyable is always difficult. After living in Cambodia I practically absorbed every book ever written about Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge uprisings. These books, almost always written by outsiders, can be evaluated based on the quality of writing and the information they convey. Here, I'm not going to judge the author on the writing. Writing a biography, and such a traumatic one, is very different from writing about fictional or far removed events. Describ...more Rating a book that is not supposed to be enjoyable is always difficult. After living in Cambodia I practically absorbed every book ever written about Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge uprisings. These books, almost always written by outsiders, can be evaluated based on the quality of writing and the information they convey. Here, I'm not going to judge the author on the writing. Writing a biography, and such a traumatic one, is very different from writing about fictional or far removed events. Describing her history the author might not have used the most captivating of language but in my opinion that's perfectly in line with the book itself. She describes in great detail how detaching herself from the actual situation allowed her to survive - knowing this I fail to see why anyone would expect a heart string pulling semi-novel.
Ms. Kampusch describes things as they were, in a matter of fact way without too much whining. I include the "too much" because the first chapter about her childhood seems a bit out of place. Although she has my deepest sympathies for the strained family relationships I felt it put her in an unnecessary defensive situation and made her look weaker than what I expected.

The way she describes her time in captivity is tainted by the work of an undoubtedly large time of psychological advisors. This too is understandable and expected. All our memories are tainted by our most recent experiences. All you need to do this is to read your old diaries. See how much you loved that hipster guy when you were sixteen? I bet your impression on him has changed a lot looking back with a ten year cap between now and then.
For me, this does not make the book any worse. Unlike fictional books where you can disagree with the story as much as you want one has to take real life accounts as they are; namely influenced by new experiences and often the inability to convey feelings via the means of the written word.

Ms. Kampusch not writing about any sexual abuse actually makes this book better in my opinion. It surprised me to see that many people missed these details but I'm glad she ignored them. Any sexual relationship can be a defining and in this case probably very traumatizing event. It's her personal life and I fully support her in only sharing with the public what she feels comfortable with. There are enough other books, both fictional and real life stories going in detail about sexual abuse, no need therefore to pressure someone into giving details about theirs.

Although I have not enjoyed the story (obviously) I still rate it as a good book that I finished in a couple if days. It's an interesting insight into the mind and experiences of a very strong woman that does remarkable well for herself. Anyone expecting a crying victim is going to be disappointed. The author appears to have excepted what happened and moved on as much as this is possible. I'm saddened to see the criticism Ms. Kampusch is facing constantly but I believe that writing this book gave her back a bit if control over her life that has been dominated by her someone else for eight years.(less)

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Feb 10, 2013 Mandy Booka rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: schicksalsbericht

Ein Schicksalsbericht, dessen Ausmaß an Grausamkeit kaum Grenzen kennt. Natascha Kampusch berichtet über ihr Leben in der Gefangenschaft mit ihrem Entführer, Peiniger und einzigen Bezugsperson ihrer Kindheit und Jugend.
Dieses Buch hat mich tief bewegt, denn die Offenlegung der Tatsachen durch das geschriebene Wort, brennen sich sehr tief in den Kopf und lassen nie so ganz los - trotz der Unterbrechungen, die ich während des Lesens machen musste, um ihren Sinn genau zu erfassen und zu verarbeiten...more Ein Schicksalsbericht, dessen Ausmaß an Grausamkeit kaum Grenzen kennt. Natascha Kampusch berichtet über ihr Leben in der Gefangenschaft mit ihrem Entführer, Peiniger und einzigen Bezugsperson ihrer Kindheit und Jugend.
Dieses Buch hat mich tief bewegt, denn die Offenlegung der Tatsachen durch das geschriebene Wort, brennen sich sehr tief in den Kopf und lassen nie so ganz los - trotz der Unterbrechungen, die ich während des Lesens machen musste, um ihren Sinn genau zu erfassen und zu verarbeiten. Für mich stellt dieser Bericht sogar den perfekt durchdachtesten und spannendsten Thriller in den Schatten, denn blendet man die Wahrheit hinter der Geschichte aus, könnte man tatsächlich von einem grenzwertigen Psychothriller sprechen, der aus der Opferperspektive geschildert wird. Doch man macht sich zwischenzeitlich bewusst, dass all dies nicht eine ausgeklügelte Story mit "Happy End" entspricht, denn es ist eben schockierend wahr und hat sich so zugetragen.
Die Details der grausamen Erfahrungen dieses unschuldigen Mädchens, das mit den Jahren zu einer Erwachsenen heranwuchs, sprengen meine persönliche Vorstellungskraft von Bösartigkeit in unserer Welt, das irgendwo unter uns weilt und täuscht. Zu welch grauenvollen Dingen der menschliche Verstand imstande ist und wir untereinander zu solch kranken Verhalten fähig sind, ist unglaublich ; ja eigentlich unbeschreiblich.
Während des Lesens der unfassbaren Zeilen hatte ich vollkommenes Mitgefühl, was Natascha Kampusch durchstehen und mit welchen Ängsten und Misshandlungen sie die ganzen Jahre leben musste. Nachempfinden will ich ihr es nie.
Zwischenzeitlich habe ich auch jedes Interview und viele Berichte im Internet angesehen um mir ein reelles Bild von Natascha machen zu können. Man merkt ihr eine wesentliche Stärke an, mit der sie vor die Kamera tritt (und was sich auch in dem Buch bemerkbar macht), jedoch spürte ich ebenfalls die Verletzlichkeit und Verbitterung (letzteres besonders in den aktuelleren Interviews) hinter der starken Frau, die sie verkörpert. Ich kann es wirklich nicht nachvollziehen, weshalb die Menschen und die Presse so demütigende Dinge in die Welt setzen, welche sie natürlich beleidigen. Reicht es denn nicht, was ihr widerfahren ist und ihre Sicht der Vorkommnisse so häufig schilderte? Der Familie und ihr selbst werden heute noch Sachen unterstellt, die mich dermaßen verärgern.
Es ist schlimm, wie es zum Teil in unserer Welt zugeht und wie wenig Menschlichkeit zu existieren scheint. Man sollte der Frau ihre verdiente Freiheit lassen und sie als normale Mitbürgerin ansehen können, die es verdient hat endlich ihr Leben zu leben nach allem, was ihr zugestoßen ist!

Ich wünsche mir für diese junge Frau, dass sie weiterhin ihre Stärke behält und ihr Leben so positiv wie möglich verlaufen mag. Meinen vollsten Respekt hat Natascha Kampusch definitiv.

Fazit
Worte sind hier überflüssig.(less)

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Apr 21, 2013 Xanthi rated it 4 of 5 stars

Seems rather wrong to give any sort of star rating to a book such as this, written by the survivor, herself. I was actually very surprised at how well it was written, which made me wonder if it was ghost written, as these sorts of books often are. And I mean no offence to Natascha Kampusch by that. It is so well written and thoughtful, that the book reads as if written by a well established author. I am assuming it was written in German and then translated into English. This can often lead to so...more Seems rather wrong to give any sort of star rating to a book such as this, written by the survivor, herself. I was actually very surprised at how well it was written, which made me wonder if it was ghost written, as these sorts of books often are. And I mean no offence to Natascha Kampusch by that. It is so well written and thoughtful, that the book reads as if written by a well established author. I am assuming it was written in German and then translated into English. This can often lead to some 'clunkiness' but the translation was smooth.
As for the story itself, what can one say? It was truly ghastly and a wonder that she survived it and for so long. But not only did she survive it, she seems to be flourishing now and good for her. I hear that she has made millions now, and to that I say : Good! She earned every cent and no amount of $ can bring those years back to her, and erase the suffering both mental and physical.
I liked how she painted a picture of her life before her kidnapping. It was all rather depressing and that, to me at least, made her abduction even sadder. And as the years went by and she described what went on, in what year, I kept working out in my head how old I was then and what was going on in my life, which made me feel even worse for her. Whilst I was a young woman, a bit older than her,dancing in nightclubs, dressed to the nines, she was enduring this torment, in a modern European city, known for its cultural history. It made my head spin to put it in that kind of context.
Her desire to not go into details of any kind of sexual abuse was rather frustrating, as a reader, but understandable when approaching it from her point of view. Since the book was published, she did admit that her kidnapper had raped her, as depicted in the film which has been released this year.
I have seen the trailer but do not know if or when it will be released in my country. I am very keen to see it, so I hope I will be able to.
One final note - Stockholm Syndrome. She does speak about this and totally rejects it in her case. I am not sure how I feel about this. On one hand it is easy to dismiss her denial, saying it is just another symptom of SS. On the other hand, however, because of the prolonged and exclusive contact she had with her captor, one can understand that her feelings towards him would be very mixed, especially since she has spent most of her formative years with him. The reports that she still carries his photo with her, went to his funeral, and lives in the house she was incarcerated in - all seems rather baffling. On the flipside, she did attempt and succeeded in escaping. All in all, this story is a complex study of emotions and human psychology at work.(less)

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Jan 20, 2013 Amanda rated it 4 of 5 stars

Natascha's story was extreme and unusual, I still find it pathetic that people could actually do something like this to a young girl. Abducted on way to school and got her tossed into a van and disappeared. She was very lucky she did not meet her worse fate and the abductor decided to take care of her in the strangest way. The person (who was responsible for abducting young girls over the years and later the police found their dead bodies laying somewhere and it was always too late.) who was beh...more

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May 10, 2011 Barbara rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: bio

In genere non mi piace leggere questo genere di autobiografie, ma la storia di Natasha Kampusch mi ha colpito per il modo in cui ha saputo fronteggiare psicologicamente a una situazione inimmaginabile.
Questo suo libro sembra essere stato scritto per riprendersi un po' di giustizia e mettere in chiaro il suo punto di vista. Spesso le persone vittime di accadimenti tanto atroci finiscono per essere loro stesse processate dall'opinione pubblica - che prima le compatisce, poi le attacca quando le re...more

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Apr 28, 2011 Rufsetufsa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: biographies

I guess all or at least most of you has heard about this girl. Natascha Kampusch shocked the whole world when she in 2006 managed to escape from Wolfang Priklopil after being his hostage in 8 years. On the way to school on March 2th, 1998 as a ten - year - old, she got kidnapped by this man who took her inside his white van and brought her to a hidden basement under his garage. There she was from 1998 to 2006 while her family and the police was searching for her and thought they would never see...more I guess all or at least most of you has heard about this girl. Natascha Kampusch shocked the whole world when she in 2006 managed to escape from Wolfang Priklopil after being his hostage in 8 years. On the way to school on March 2th, 1998 as a ten - year - old, she got kidnapped by this man who took her inside his white van and brought her to a hidden basement under his garage. There she was from 1998 to 2006 while her family and the police was searching for her and thought they would never see her again. The funny thing is, on the same day she got kidnapped, was the same day she was walking to school all by herself for the first time. Her mom was always overprotecting and Natascha wanted and needed to feel self independent, but unfortunately she made this choice on wrong day. She was about to walk pass W. Priklopil when he took her into his van and drove off. Natascha Kampusch didn't knew she would be spending years in a hidden cellar. Poor girl.

I remember the first time I got to know this story. It's not often I watch the news. I read the papers online instead and watching news on TV is something I do just now and then. But I remember the TV was on and when the news came there was about this girl that had been a hostage in someones cellar in 8 years and had managed to escape. I remember it was all shocking and everyone talking about it. It almost sounded like an urban legend or something. That this kind of story got a happy ending is sort of unbelievable 'cause 8 years is a pretty long time and living with a lunatic like that sounds so crazy. I was watching the news and was fascinated by this story. I was fascinated of the fact that the girl survived and it all sounded so bizarre and weird. And I was also fascinated about someone could be crazy enough to lock someone in just like that and take away the person's freedom. How can someone do anything like that? It's awful and pure evil. And I also thought about what if something had happened to Priklopli. What if he died in a car accident, a heart attack or anything while Natascha was in his cellar and she would die there and never be found. What a horrible thought! 'Cause Priklopli was the only person who knew where she was. She would die there and never be found if something happened to him. What a scary thought! I wouldn't survive with all these thoughts and be brave enough to survive like she did. So, she really is hell of a fighter and a a girl with a lot of courage. No doubt about that!

After a few years in the cellar, Prikopli let her come out of the cellar and let her stay in his house sometimes. But only to work. She was washing a lot and making food. She was practically a slave. If she did something wrong he used violence. I also remember we got to know from the news that Natascha also went skiing with her kidnapper and that she had several chances to escape - but now that I have read her book I understand more what she went through. She could escape many times but, c'mon, that man was sick and had such power over her. He said many times if she told someone about her situation - he would kill them. And if she tried to escape and someone saw her running away from him - he would kill them too. She didn't want anyone to die because of her. He said so many things and she was basically too scared to escape 'cause she was afraid of what he would do if he caught her again. This is her personal story about being a hostage and telling about her thoughts and feelings. And what she was doing to survive this strange and horrible situation. What kept her up.

3,096 days is not a fun read. That's for sure. And to know that this is a true story makes it much worse. This is definitely not an enjoyable book. It's written to give us insight of a weird and bizarre situation that is hard to imagine. It's hard to understand how it's possible to hide a person in so many years and not feeling bad about it. And it's even harder to imagine how someone could survive and be so strong in all these years.

Natascha Kampusch proves with this book that she is strong and very brave. She caught up with a lot of crap with that guy. It's amazing that she got through that hell with the thought of all the violence she went through. It's not often we read a book and already knows the ending when we start reading it but luckily we know this story has a happy ending. We know she'll finally escape somehow and it's remarkable by the thought all she went through. But it was also shocking to read about her escape part. People didn't seem very helpful but they can regret now. Read her book and get shocked. I don't get shocked that easy but this book is just mind blowing. And I still remember what the cellar looked like from the pictures we saw on the news and can be seen online. It's very heartbreaking. I admire N. Kampusch 'cause I know I wouldn't survive something like that. She's a true fighter.(less)

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Jul 30, 2011 Brina rated it 2 of 5 stars

Dieses Buch ist ein Thema für sich.

Zum einen habe ich es mit großem Erwarten verfolgt, zum anderen war ich doch ein wenig geschockt über die Sichtweise.

Natürlich ist es ein hartes Schicksal und natürlich hat eine Natascha Kampusch jeden Respekt dafür verdient. Allerdings versteh ich das Ziel des Buchs nicht.
Sehr oft hat sie in Interviews gesagt, sie möchte nicht mehr über ihr Schicksal reden, veröffentlicht aber dann noch ein Buch darüber.

Trotzdem ist dieses Buch sehr gelungen und beantwortet vi...more

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Apr 19, 2011 Chick_Flick rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011

I think the book would have been a lot better had Kampusch gone all out with the details of her 9 year imprisonment. Of course I understand her desire to keep certain parts of the ordeal private, but because of that, you always had a feeling while reading the book that there were specific facts withheld, that there was more to the story than she was willing to share.

She also strikes me as having a chip on her shoulder with regards to the labeling of "Stockholm syndrome." She is very defensive ab...more

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May 06, 2013 Marion rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

tja....anfangs war ich ja noch recht angetan,weil es so geschrieben ist das man sich alles bildlich vorstellen kann,aber mein Fazit am Ende ist doch eher ernüchternd. Mir fällt gar kein Wort ein um es zu beschreiben....alles wirkt so abgesprochen,zurechtgerrückt und was mich am Meisten stört, ist das immer wiederkehrende Verzeichen oder Nachvollziehen des Verhalten des Täters.... Man könnte fast meinen das Priklopil als Ghost Writer mitfungierte um sich in ein besseres Licht zu rücken ....
ab der...more

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Jul 30, 2011 Brina rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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May 20, 2012 Saskia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Een heel indrukwekkend verhaal dit. Erg heftig om te lezen hoe afhankelijk Natascha zoveel jaren is geweest van haar ontvoerder. Toch begrijp ik wel dat ze niet alleen maar slecht over hem kan denken, mensen komen dan al gauw aan met het Stockholmsyndroom maar je zal maar in zo'n situatie zitten dat je totaal afhankelijk bent van maar één persoon. Net zoals zij in haar boek ook zegt: als hem iets was overkomen terwijl zij in de kelder zat, had ze het zelf ook niet overleefd. De ontvoerder was op...more

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Jan 13, 2011 Rabenfrau rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: genre-biographical-nonfiction, read-2011

Als sie am frühen Morgen des 2. März 1998 auf dem Weg zur Schule von einem Mann in einen weißen Lieferwagen gezerrt wird, glaubt Natascha Kampusch, bald sterben zu müssen. Stunden später liegt die Zehnjährige, eingewickelt in eine Decke, auf dem kalten Fußboden im Keller eines Einfamilienhauses. Um sie herum herrscht absolute Dunkelheit, die Luft ist schal und stickig.

Hier, in dem nur knapp fünf Quadratmeter großen Verlies, wird das Mädchen die nächten achteinhalb Jahre leben. Ihr Entführer Wolf...more Als sie am frühen Morgen des 2. März 1998 auf dem Weg zur Schule von einem Mann in einen weißen Lieferwagen gezerrt wird, glaubt Natascha Kampusch, bald sterben zu müssen. Stunden später liegt die Zehnjährige, eingewickelt in eine Decke, auf dem kalten Fußboden im Keller eines Einfamilienhauses. Um sie herum herrscht absolute Dunkelheit, die Luft ist schal und stickig.

Hier, in dem nur knapp fünf Quadratmeter großen Verlies, wird das Mädchen die nächten achteinhalb Jahre leben. Ihr Entführer Wolfgang Priklopil ist der einzige Mensch, dem sie sich anvertrauen kann. Sie wird von ihm misshandelt, gedemütigt, gepeinigt und unterdrückt. Erst im Sommer 2006, am 23. August, gelingt ihr die Flucht – nach 3096 Tagen.

Um ehrlich zu sein bin ich mir nicht sicher, ob ich Natascha Kampusch’s Biographie „3096 Tage„ wirklich objektiv bewerten kann – und will.

Unterstützt von zwei Co-Autorinnen, berichtet die junge Frau Jahre nach ihrer Flucht von den Erlebnissen, die sie ganz klar geprägt haben. Sie schildert ihre Kindheit, ihr Verhältnis zur Mutter, die nicht in der Lage scheint, ihre Liebe so zu zeigen wie ein Kind sie auch verstehen kann. Stattdessen versucht sie ihre Tochter mittels Ohrfeigen zu erziehen und auf den rechten Weg zu bringen. Keine Freunde, übergewichtig, und kaum vorhandenes Selbstbewusstsein – Natascha Kampusch mutmaßte später, dass der Täter sie wohl genau deswegen auswählte.

Wolfgang Priklopil, ein 35jähriger Soziopath, cholerisch, paranoid, unter Magersucht und Hygienewahn leidend, sieht in dem Mädchen eine Möglichkeit, sich eine ihm ergebene, willfährige Sklavin zu schaffen.

Eindringlich schildert die junge Frau, wie sie Überlebensstrategien entwickelte, wie sie sich in all dem Wahnsinn nie selbst verliert und trotz all der Jahre in Dunkelheit, Schmerz, Hunger und seelischer Folter irgendwie überlebt. Trotz Suizidversuche, und trotz einer Lethargie, die es dem Täter sogar möglich macht mit ihr einen Skiausflug zu unternehmen, da die junge Frau so gelähmt scheint, dass sie Fluchtmöglichkeiten tatenlos an sich vorrüberziehen lässt, schafft sie es tatsächlich, sich loszureißen und zu laufen, zu fliehen.

Für mich persönlich schließt Natascha Kampusch hier endlich mit ihrer Vergangenheit ab. Die Sensationsgier nährende, detailgenaue Beschreibungen all der Misshandlungen finden sich nicht in dem Buch, stattdessen trifft der Leser nur auf Fragmente und nüchtern verfasste Tagebucheinträge, in der die junge Frau ihre Verletzungen dokumentiert.

Ich möchte mich hier nicht darüber auslassen, ob Natascha Kampusch bewusst Dinge verschweigt, die angeblich bereits durch ihre Interviews in die Öffentlichkeit drangen, und ob das Buch nun hundertprozentig wahrheitsgetreu ist oder nicht.

Stattdessen sehe ich es als das, was es (hoffentlich) ist: Ein Abschluss. Sich ein letztes Mal alles vor Augen führen, aufarbeiten und es endlich hinter sich lassen. Wie Natascha Kampusch im Epilog selbst so schön sagt: „Ich weiß, dass ich auch das Leben in Freiheit meistern kann. Und diese Freiheit beginnt erst jetzt, vier Jahre nach dem 23. August 2006. Erst jetzt kann ich mit diesen Zeilen einen Schlussstrich ziehen und wirklich sagen: Ich bin frei.„(less)

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Mar 16, 2013 MissChievous rated it 5 of 5 stars

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The story of Natascha Kampusch was all over the media, but reading her book gave a whole other look at her harrowing tale. Natascha was abducted as an 8 year old girl on her way to school, and was imprisoned by her kidnapper for 8 years in a self-constructed underground prison in his home. In this book she writes how she adapted and how she managed to survive 8 harrowing years until her escape, during which she suffered extreme psychological, physical, and (alluded) sexual abuse. Her story seems...more

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Feb 09, 2012 Turtelina rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012, kindle

I already knew that the mind goes to great length in order to survive. But in the case of Natascha Kampusch, it went far bayond anything that is imagine-able!

The book tells the story of her capitivity in Nataschas words. Well almost. They are her words, but her memories were clearly (and good for her) very much analyzed and that is what you can read in this book.

I remember the Kampusch case making headlines when she was kidnapped. I will never forget her mother seeing a "seer", who told the med...more

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Jul 01, 2012 Hannah rated it 5 of 5 stars

This was a very interesting read, I still find it horrendous that people could actually do something like this to a young girl. However, I found it interesting to read it from her point of view, how she formed a bond with her abductor and the way she learnt how to get things that she wanted. I would recommend this book to anybody who is interested in reading about real life stories as it is a great insight into the lives of the victims and how it has and did affect them.
It is definitely very dif...more

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Sep 18, 2012 Jacqueline Lafloufa rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Natascha Kampusch is an Austrian girl known for her abduction at the age of 10 on 2 March 1998. She was held in a secret cellar by her kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil for more than eight years, until she escaped on 23 August 2006.

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