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And then?

Revisado: 01-24-20

I listened for about an hour and wondered where the actual story was, beyond the obvious. I get that Mollie was inspiring. I enjoyed hearing about her journey into the sport. My own daughter discovered climbing this year, so it wasn't that I didn't have an interest in the topic. I just felt like I was sitting on a couch listening to someone talk about how proud they were about their kid, for an hour. When that happens in real life, after a while, you want to talk about something else, and I thought the story might go someplace else, but since it didn't seem to be going anywhere, I stopped listening.

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Awe-inspiring on one level

Revisado: 01-11-20

I was inspired by David's story. Given his childhood, I was so happy for him. However I couldn't help but wonder "so what?" on some level, at times, because, to me, personal success is only a small part of happiness in life. If you have all that success but don't have deep connections with people outside your family, what good is it, in my mind. I had hoped to hear David also reflect as deeply and introspectively about his personal life and relationships or at least touch on it near the end. Does he have a loving life partner? I know he's a loner, but he's still a human being. There isn't even a Personal Life section on his Wikipedia page, and that made me a little sad. Maybe that's his next life chapter. I feel certain that if given the same level of commitment and reflection, that part of his life, too, could be inspiring.

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Get a Room

Revisado: 07-02-19

I really liked this book. That said, I felt a bit like a voyeur during parts of it. Very steamy in a good way if you like that kind of thing in a book. I just felt like it went on forever (like more than an hour of listening time, more than was necessary. Excellent plot, though, and the narrator was fantastic.

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Good, creepy, Intriguing

Revisado: 06-19-19

If you can ignore a handful of unrealistic plot points, this is a great book. I wish the narrator wouldn't pronounce every "what" word with a /hw/ sound, but she's pretty darned good otherwise and makes up for the unrealistic parts.

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Genuine, Honest, Relatable

Revisado: 04-19-19

I lived that Deborah narrated her story; her voice beautifully conveys the tone of this rich story. I loved it.

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Some deal breakers for me

Revisado: 03-17-19

To be honest, I liked the book (narrators were great, and I liked the steamy part in the beginning!) until I got to some parts of the plot that were just dumb to me. For example, I would expect a woman who's going to lose her virginity to a stranger in a sex trade (one for whom this behavior would generally be out of character) to have more feelings about it. I felt like that aspect of the character was underdeveloped, but I kept listening. But then I got to another part that just didn't seem realistic to me. What person (a doctor, no less) would hand their cell phone over to a stranger to borrow and come back hours later to retrieve it? That's where I called it quits. If you're an analytical person, you might not like this book. If you're a go-with-the-flow type and don't need realism, I recommend it.

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Missing a final chapter

Revisado: 09-14-18

I liked the story a lot but hated the "ending." It was abrupt, not believable, and left me with too many questions.

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Poignant and Inspiring

Revisado: 06-03-18

I wish I could hang out with Tara Westover for a while. I could relate so much, not to the type of trauma she suffered in her childhood, but to the ways her trauma affected her, the way it distorted her thinking and her future relationships as a result. Tara writes with honesty and clarity that I admired. I was moved by her story. As a sister myself, I couldn't help but notice the absence of stories about Tara and her sister Audrey's childhood together, but the absence itself spoke volumes to me (one of nine siblings who simply survived individually, not as teammates or partners in a tough childhood). When you live with childhood experiences like those Tara shares, it's sometimes every man for himself. Thank you, Tara, for sharing your inspiring story. I'm happy for you.

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Storybook Perfect

Revisado: 05-27-18

A little too storybook perfect for my taste, but it had decent bones, and the performance was excellent.

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Great Story

Revisado: 12-28-17

I love that Aidan took the initiative to send the letters, and I’ll be reading this book to my students. That said, I wish I had known at the outset that (spoiler alert) he received fewer than 10 responses to his 100 letters. That bummed me out, realizing that the story was over and I wasn’t going to hear any more responses. Maybe there’ll be a sequel.

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