Author(s): Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Number of Pages: 349
Number of Stars I'm Giving it: 2.5
This review will be short and sweet, or at least to the point.
I give this book 2.5 stars for content, and zero for context.
The writing was pretty bad. I know I shouldn't judge because my writing is downright atrocious at times. The difference is that I don't charge money for my writing. In fact I hope that most of my "writings" will go unseen from human eyes forever!
This book was an interesting peek into another culture and I enjoyed that. However I do think he looked at the Pakistani culture with rose colored glasses and was very judgmental towards the American culture. I respect what it is he is trying to accomplish in an impoverished part of the world and it is a far greater contribution than I may ever achieve. Politically I doubt I would agree with the author on much, but that is the great thing about agency. It is nice to see that one person can make a difference, and that you can accomplish a lot when you put your mind to it. If you are just reading it to have something to read then there are endless lists of more entertaining things out there.
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