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Memoir Of A Milk Carton Kid (2011)

by Tanya Nicole Kach(Favorite Author)

3.18 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1613467591 (ISBN13: 9781613467596)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Tate Publishing

review 1: I have mixed feelings about this book. It was a quick read- took me about 3 hours- and very engaging. However I really couldn't empathize with Tanya very much, sadly. Like many other reviewers have said, she comes across as a person who is fairly unlikable, not able to keep friendships, and perpetually playing the victim card. Her time in captivity is barely covered. She complains about being abused for 10+ years but besides having to keep quiet and not having AC in the summer, she does not cover what exactly happened. In fact she seems to have been treated fairly well. Most surprising was that she was she was locked in her room from the inside- so she could have come and gone whenever she wanted, and pretty much did for the second half of her captivity. I'm not really sur... moree how this ends up being a kidnapping. Regardless, she was a young and confused teen who was victimized by an older pedophile, failed by her parents and the system. I wish I could have liked the book more. I see how it is so controversial.
review 2: Victim of captivity? Or mentally unstable teen looking for love and affection who gets more and more unstable and bored as time goes on so decides to write her story and call it a ten year 'captivity'?How disapointing. What starts as a well written, cut to the chase summary of Tanya Kach's life and mental state before meeting her 'captor', (Due to the lact of affection and stablility in her home life), turns into an almost quickly scribbled down list of dates and facts which is told in random sequence without a hint of detail or emotion. I would maybe feel differently if she and the writer whom she collaborated with actually TOLD the audience about her life while living with Tom Hose. Hose is obviously an unstable, lowlife, however nothing is even detailed or explained about the captivity that could make Tanya's words 'psychologically tortured and sexually degregraded' justifiable in context to this book she has written.And considering she was able to go on shopping trips, start work in a thrift shop and as she even says 'I decided to leave the house for a little while'.. It is very very hard to be able to call this book and her story a story of captivity...By page 72 she's already explained why she took a liking to Hose, which as a reader I can genuinely understand and I also feel genuinely sorry for as her parents and living situation was rubbish to say the least. She has already had consensual sex with him (granted she was a minor and Hose is in the wrong)and in those 72 or so pages we have already spanned nearly 9 years in 'captivity' without any actual detail except having to have relieved herself in a bucket (which she knew she would be doing when she chose to live with him.)- She has already had numerous chances to leave the bedroom she was being held captive in and yet does nothing. Even when police enter the house, or she goes shopping (yes she was allowed on multiple shopping trips over 10 years.)- she still does nothing, in fact she says DIRECTLY to the reader 'I had no impulse to escape, and I'm ashamed to say that leaving him never entered my mind'. The easiest thing from a reader's perspective would have been to make some noise to let Hose's parents know that she was living day to day in his bedroom, if she wanted to find a way out.So far I feel her story takes away from the numerous other stories I have read by women who truly were kidnapped and held in captivity against their will. This situation,- although Hose as an adult is completly wrong in abusing his authority over a minor, - barely resembles a hostage situation.Rather It resembles a wayward troubled teen who craves attention/affection (and has every right to need and want attention and affection from parents/authority figures) and who has very low self esteem, that she decided to stay with a man twice her age for a 10 year period. Within the 10 years she also agreed to marry him.It seems to be an obvious case of a misguided feeling of'love' situation,- to - I'm bored now and feeling mentally unstable so Im going to say I was being held captive.While I understand Mental instability and it is justified given being isolated in one room for so long (although she did take many shopping trips outside the home) - It's hard to seriously look at this as a story of captivity. UNLESS it's just the way it's written...There are barely any details of the captivity and abuse she seems to have suffered.It's very randomly written and goes from her captor doing his normal thing such as going to school then coming home,..to then saying he will throw her body in a lake...I mean WTF?... How about actually letting the audience know HOW that came about?,how and when his moods changed with you, when you noticed he was a bit cuckoo, about your day to day living situation, your fears, your happiness, what made you change your perspective of him?, how you lived, what you ate, how you felt etc? There's No lead up of his treatment toward her or anything.seems like a crazy (and wrong) relationship between an obviously repressed and unstable adult, and a teen who craved affection so badly from a bad childhood.Sorry, but in both story content and writing style I feel it takes away from those amazing true life stories of terrible captivity, such as Colleen Stan, Natacha Kampuch and Jaycee Dugard. less

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