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EAN: 9780670917198 Format: Import ISBN: 0670917192 Label: Viking Manufacturer: Viking Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: January 31, 2008 Publisher: Viking Studio: Viking Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Riveting, Horrifying, but Not Well-WrittenI recommend the book for it's content, not it's style--the writing is pretty awful, most notably for it's frustrating redundancies and lapses. Preconceived notions you have about the quaint, if misogynistic, polygamists of the FLDS church may be turned on their heads when you learn first-hand what it's like for women and children who are literally trapped in a community, committed to living lives they have little control or influence over. Rating:  - Great Book and it arrive in Excellent ConditionLove the book, I haven't got all the way through it, but it's hard to put down. Well written and real. Rating:  - Amazing story --- Horrendous writing.Polygamy fascinates me, so I didn't hesitate to pick up this book. To quote the cover: "I was born into a radical polygamist cult. At eighteen, I becme the fourth wife of a fifty-year-old man. I had eight children in fifteen years. When our leader began to preach the apocalypse, I knew I had to get them out." This book is mostly an autobiography, but it's an alert about the inner workings of the FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the shocking and often news-worthy side ... Read More Rating:  - Should be in FICTIONApparently the author put together a conglomeration of hallucination, exaggeration, retaliation, and called it ESCAPE. From what? Why? Perhaps it gets more sales (don't buy it). There are too many conflicting stories and tales which led me to say it should be in fiction. Rating: - Hell on earth or hell in the hearafter, or both.This book provides a graphic documentation of how tyranny, masquerading as religion, can create some of the most pathological societies imaginable, defeating laws and mores that prohibit simultaneous polygyny, slavery, extreme physical and mental child and wife abuse, arranged marriages, nepotism and cronyism, among other abuses. Through a combination of incessant brainwashing and bullying, a few old men run the lives of everyone in these communities of FLDS(Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ ... Read More |
