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Loading... 3096 Jours (edition 2010)by Natascha Kampusch
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. How do you begin to rate or review something so personal? This book was hard to get through, not only because of the content but also the writing style. It was at hard times to follow and she seemed to contradict her experiences throughout. She spends multiple pages vehemently denying she has suffered from Stockholm syndrome all the while saying how evil but kind her kidnapper was. A huge portion of the book is dedicated to her "difficult" childhood. From someone who suffered so much later it was rather strange to hear some of her complaints of her childhood. "I was now 5 years old and I had gone from being a cheerful toddler to an insecure, taciturn person who no longer liked life." I cannot begin to imagine the difficulty of writing of such experiences so I don't want to sound harsh but many things felt glossed over about her times in captivity. I'm not going to give a star rating to this book simply because this is a true story and is not meant to be entertaining. I feel a lot of respect towards Natascha and commend her for her bravery and strenght. This was such a difficult read but one that needs to exist so people can know and fight against such horrible situations and crimes in the future. The shocking, yet compelling story of Natasha Kempush, who at the age of 10, on her way to school, was kidnapped by a 35-year-old man and held in captivity and under harsh conditions for more than eight years. Despite harsh prison conditions, abuse and humiliation, Natasha also found the strength to survive, to maintain the spirit and believe that she could be saved, and finally to escape. A story about the evil which is not perceived, and an unseen force of a young girl. no reviews | add a review
On March 2nd, 1998, ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped, and found herself locked in a house that would be her home for the next eight years. She was starved, beaten, treated as a slave, and forced to work for her deranged captor. But she never forgot who she was, and she never gave up hope of returning to the world. This is her story. No library descriptions found. |
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I am very impressed by her attitude of not wanting to be reduced to a weak victim abused by a horrible monster, but instead pointing out that while everything that happened was wrong, the criminal was still human and had his good sides as well as the many bad ones. I'm appalled by the response this attitude has generated from the general public: and I've read that in her most recent interviews she said that she was not comfortable with other people and had stopped studying. I just can't believe that people are willing to turn on someone like her just because she doesn't fit her narrow definition of a victim.
I've been wanting to read this book for a while, and I'm happy she got to tell her story her way. I do hope everything works out for the best for her in the end, and that people stop being assholes. ( )