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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer

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kyleighwhitsell's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative fast-paced

5.0

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5.0

🎧 Missoula by Jon Krakauer

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This is a difficult, but incredibly important book. I would read Jon Krakauer’s grocery list. He has the ability to take seemingly dry, factual content and turn it into a riveting narrative. Missoula is no different. It’s an important book about how misunderstood acquaintance rape is, and how terribly the justice system lets rape victims down. It’s an infuriating story that had me yelling “Oh come on!” multiple times during my runs. Although much of the story is hard to stomach, as the assaults are fairly detailed, I found the story riveting. It definitely kept my mind occupied on my

last long run on Sunday. We still have a long way to go as a society when it comes to sexual assault.

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challenging emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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dark informative

5.0

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

A really hard read in terms of the content, but the writing style makes it very 'readable.' This is a thoroughly researched book which documents the Missoula rape crisis that left women and girls vulnerable to the unwanted advances of college and football students. Krakauer is not afraid to call out blatant lies and misleading information throughout this book when it was clear that police and state officials were lying or misrepresenting facts. He was consistently on the side of the victims while also providing interesting - but harrowing- interview transcripts from the rapists at the heart of some of the accusations. While vile to read, they provide an interesting insight into how these acquaintance rapes are thought of by those who commit them (hint: they don't think of them as rape in the slightest, despite their own disgusting tellings of some incidents). Well worth a read, if you can stomach it.

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