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Hidden Valley Road

Robert Kolker

4.16 AVERAGE

phoenix_flames52's review against another edition

3.0

dark informative sad medium-paced

alexreadsthings's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

eggcellent_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

alysa_schwenk's review against another edition

4.0

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

auntieshelly1964's review against another edition

4.0

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Uff dah.... This is a difficult topic.

To go thru what that family did....

Would it be better today, or just different?

What really got to me was the impact on the rest of the kids.

msarendt's review against another edition

5.0

sad medium-paced

smileykyleigh's review against another edition

4.0

informative medium-paced

bluemarin's review against another edition

4.0

dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

jaelynnhorton's review against another edition

2.0

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It was mildly interesting but so. Dang. Long. I was trying to learn about schizophrenia- and I did learn some things - but I didn’t love the sample size of one really dysfunctional family. It was hard to separate what was just that family’s dysfunction and what was the disease. I read some others’ comments about how it was sad that this book painted people with schizophrenia so poorly, and I can see that. And it was looooong. Would skip this one.

ebbear's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional medium-paced