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3,096 Days by Natascha Kampusch
1.0

"The kidnapper was dead - there was no Priklopil Case. I was the case: the Natascha Kampusch Case."

Reading books about the crimes from a victim's perspective will always catch my interest, but I just wish I left this one alone. Natascha told her story in such a boring way that it made me want to stop reading five pages in. It got better around one hundred pages in and then the writing got bad again and I wanted to put it down. I would have happily done anything else but have read this book just because of how bad it is written, and I'm not sure if Natascha is to blame or the translator is, but it was such a waste of time in my opinion.

I often forgot about a lot of things that were mentioned in the book simply because I couldn't keep track of the boring information and it was such a shame because this case it so interesting and shocking, and hearing from her view was something that I was excited about, instead it was like she wasn't interested in telling her story. It felt like a chore to read.