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Sliver Of Light (2014)

by Shane Bauer(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1306469791 (ISBN13: 9781306469791)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: While I empathize with what they went through, I couldn't help but think what were they thinking placing themselves in this situation in the first place? They were hiking near the border of Iran...a region of the world that is hugely unstable & has been for hundreds of years. Then once captured (I do believe that they were innocent) they are expecting to be treated with the jurisprudence one would expect in the U.S. I found them to display many of the characteristics of Americans that I do not like, self centered, whiny & entitled. I am glad they are home, free, safe & sound but maybe they should think twice about hiking near the border of Iran....
review 2: One star because as a human, I empathize with what the three went through; however, these three are prob... moreably the most arrogant, self-loving and whiny people I have ever read about. There were times I almost wanted the Iranians to smack them around a little bit just to knock them off of their high horses. The three hate America and take every chance to speak out against this country while living in the Middle East, then whine when America doesn't respond to help them. They mock religion and God, then wonder why God is letting this happen to them (Although at some points here and there, they do devise their own psuedo-religious beliefs, when it suits them). And ultimately when freed, refuse to speak to the FBI to help other Americans in the same situation. I imagine that in terms of Iranian (and other foreign) prisons, they actually had it pretty well. The most interesting part of the book was a glimpse into Iran. less

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