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A brilliantly-written memoir, harrowing, horrifying, hopeful...not be missed! Meet Amanda Lindhout on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine Minds, Wednesday, September 25, 3 pm ET. Listen online http://bit.ly/U4EEMd.
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I was a little disappointed by the lack of tension for a good portion of this book, so it turned the read into a bit a slog. It seemed to meander a bit -- probably like the author in her travels. There is a point in the memoir, after she had been a prisoner for months, where there is an abrupt shift and suddenly the boredom and monotony are washed away and the story turns harrowing. That's when I felt the tension really returned. I admire the author's honesty and resiliency, especially at the en
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My favorite part was the epilogue.
"I'd spent so much time in captivity wondering about the boys who guarded me, specifically, whether they'd been different - less entrenched in religious extremism and war - if they'd had more opportunities to go to school, and maybe more meaningfully, if they'd been raised in homes where their mothers and sisters had been able to attend school".
"I understand that those boys and even the leaders of the group were products of their environments".
"I've realized th ...more
"I'd spent so much time in captivity wondering about the boys who guarded me, specifically, whether they'd been different - less entrenched in religious extremism and war - if they'd had more opportunities to go to school, and maybe more meaningfully, if they'd been raised in homes where their mothers and sisters had been able to attend school".
"I understand that those boys and even the leaders of the group were products of their environments".
"I've realized th ...more
