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The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

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Jul 02, 2020 Keli rated it did not like it

Shelves: meh, now-i-know-what-the-hype-was-about, downgraded-after-digestion, my-enthusiasm-waned, vwf-lottery-choices

I found it tedious. I might downgrade it to two stars after I sleep on it. Her parents were insufferable. I only gave it an extra star because it was well written, if a little lacking in emotion. But she painted well enough how childhood ignorance can be so forgiving.

I've decided to move this down to one star. I really didn't appreciate child neglect and abuse couched within this idea of "free-living" kookiness where love is somehow enough. I think both her parents are assholes. They not only st ...more

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Feb 04, 2014 Karen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, literary-exploration-challenge, audiobook

In a nutshell, this was the relentlessly heartbreaking (though often darkly comic) true story of four children being raised by two completely incompetent parents. The circumstances that the children found themselves in time after time during the first 16 to 18 years of their lives due to the utter selfishness of their parents were just too much to be borne! I listened to the Recorded Books Audiobook, narrated by Julia Gibson and it was an excellent recording although it often had me yelling in s ...more

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