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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
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It is the first nonfiction I read and it was very hard to read. Everything that's said is true and sometimes truth is hard to face. Both the terrible situation she faced and the truth about our society are confusing for the mind. We cannot accept what she suffered and yet she survived, she deserves eternal respect for that.
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I really don't know how to rate this book.
I mean, this girl have survived eight years in the closest thing we come to Hell. She managed to keep her head held high, even after being abused, starved and humiliated. She never lost her identity or the belief that some day she would escape from this prison.
If i should rate this book from this terrifying experience, that any of us never fully could process, three stars wouldn't be enough.
It would not be fair to rate a such act only three stars. There wouldn't be enough stars on the planet to rate it.
But i'm not rating her escape or her prisoning, or anything about that; i'm rating the book. And for the book, three stars are just fine.
The book is separated in ten chapters and one epilogue. The first two chapters covers her life before the abduction, the next seven her life with Wolfgang Prinklopil, and the last one her escape into the real world.
Let me say, that i never expected a thrilling story with juicy details, because i wouldn't expect Natascha Kampusch to reveil every detail about her life. That's very personal!
I still admire her for opening up her heart, and write a book about it. That takes courage, girl!
However, the book was still not what i expected. The first two chapters were boring, but i understand why it was so important for us to know her backstory, i do! But i can't deny that i skimmed the pages, so i could read about her abduction.
The abduction was... I really don't know how to say it. At first i felt like she had been lucky; he didn't abuse her the first couple of years, unlike Elizabeth from the Josef Fritzl-case from 2008.
But after reading the first couple of hundred pages, i realized i had changed my mind completely. I couldn't possibly imagine any other person having as bad a life as her.
There was a time, when she was laying in the basement, after hitting him, where she was starving, totally brused and in complete dark, i realized that i would have given up. If i had been her, i think i would have given up. I do not easily give up on anything, because that's like loosing. And loosing's not good.
Back to the book, Rose!
Well, i'm rating three stars, because the book was well-written, interesting and informative.
What touches me the most, was the treatment she got, after she escaped from her prison. The treatment from the police, the media, everyone not knowing her story. How people treated her like a little kid, when all she ever wanted was to be an adult. How policemen broke their promises to her, how the psychiatric she got, didn't let her get to Prinklopil's funeral. Or the people afterwards, blaming her for covering for other kidnappers. I think that was a clear sign of what our society really is; black and white. People like the idea of everything being either black or white. There are no greyscales. Only Evil and Good.
I mean, this girl have survived eight years in the closest thing we come to Hell. She managed to keep her head held high, even after being abused, starved and humiliated. She never lost her identity or the belief that some day she would escape from this prison.
If i should rate this book from this terrifying experience, that any of us never fully could process, three stars wouldn't be enough.
It would not be fair to rate a such act only three stars. There wouldn't be enough stars on the planet to rate it.
But i'm not rating her escape or her prisoning, or anything about that; i'm rating the book. And for the book, three stars are just fine.
The book is separated in ten chapters and one epilogue. The first two chapters covers her life before the abduction, the next seven her life with Wolfgang Prinklopil, and the last one her escape into the real world.
Let me say, that i never expected a thrilling story with juicy details, because i wouldn't expect Natascha Kampusch to reveil every detail about her life. That's very personal!
I still admire her for opening up her heart, and write a book about it. That takes courage, girl!
However, the book was still not what i expected. The first two chapters were boring, but i understand why it was so important for us to know her backstory, i do! But i can't deny that i skimmed the pages, so i could read about her abduction.
The abduction was... I really don't know how to say it. At first i felt like she had been lucky; he didn't abuse her the first couple of years, unlike Elizabeth from the Josef Fritzl-case from 2008.
But after reading the first couple of hundred pages, i realized i had changed my mind completely. I couldn't possibly imagine any other person having as bad a life as her.
There was a time, when she was laying in the basement, after hitting him, where she was starving, totally brused and in complete dark, i realized that i would have given up. If i had been her, i think i would have given up. I do not easily give up on anything, because that's like loosing. And loosing's not good.
Back to the book, Rose!
Well, i'm rating three stars, because the book was well-written, interesting and informative.
What touches me the most, was the treatment she got, after she escaped from her prison. The treatment from the police, the media, everyone not knowing her story. How people treated her like a little kid, when all she ever wanted was to be an adult. How policemen broke their promises to her, how the psychiatric she got, didn't let her get to Prinklopil's funeral. Or the people afterwards, blaming her for covering for other kidnappers. I think that was a clear sign of what our society really is; black and white. People like the idea of everything being either black or white. There are no greyscales. Only Evil and Good.
pesado demais. enrolei muito pra terminar porque toda a descrição do terror que ela passou me nauseava, mas finalmente me obriguei a terminar e não consigo descrever em palavras o alívio que senti quando li sobre a fuga.
a natascha é muito forte.
a natascha é muito forte.
A heart wrenching true story of a girl who was kidnapped as a child and held captive in a basement enduring unthinkable abuse until she was brave enough to escape at 18 years of age. Horrifically sad and shocking, but encouraging that she endured and struggled to live and dream of a better life. I only hope that she is able to have the life now that she dreamed about all those years in captivity.
Dur de noter un tel livre.
Je la félicite finalement simplement de l'avoir écrit en fait... Elle cache sûrement encore plein de choses, mais c'est son droit... Quel courage d'avoir survécu en tout cas.
Je la félicite finalement simplement de l'avoir écrit en fait... Elle cache sûrement encore plein de choses, mais c'est son droit... Quel courage d'avoir survécu en tout cas.
dark
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dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced