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A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard

Generally, ‘I read the excerpt in People Magazine and cried a lot’ is not a great reason to buy a book, but I feel like it would be a nice gesture for all of us to buy the poor woman’s work, you know?

It is…very sad. And I could get into a lot of platitudes about AH THE RESILIENCE OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT, but, actually, a total valid takeaway could also be: there is no God, and the world is a terrible place.

I mean, not only are there young women living as sex slaves in tents in suburban California, but sometimes their captors give them kittens for company and then take them away. You know? That happens. While you’re basically her age, and ideally watching Full House and whining at your mom to let you get your ears pierced.

I can’t even deal with that right now. Please buy her book. You don’t even have to read it. I mean, she didn’t get to go to school after FIFTH GRADE, so it doesn’t read like, you know, Alice Munro wrote it.

I mean, seriously. It’s not like it JUST OCCURRED to me that the world is a terrible place, or anything, but, today, this is what’s bothering me.

  1. myheartandmyskull said: LAZY YOU HAVE A WAY WITH WORDS: “I mean, seriously. It’s not like it JUST OCCURRED to me that the world is a terrible place, or anything, but, today, this is what’s bothering me.” THAT SHIT IS BRILLIANT.
  2. dancingbugs said: She’s also getting millions from the State because they fucked up so bad on checking on her kidnapper, who was on serious parole (they never checked the back yard). Small consolation. Like Antioch California needed any more reason to be any creepier.
  3. gingertasticsara reblogged this from lazybookreviews and added:
    Wow. I could not have described why everyone should by this book any better than you just did.
  4. spaghettiandnoodles reblogged this from lazybookreviews and added:
    Really going to have to fight the urge to buy this at the airport tomorrow — don’t trip, this will obviously be...
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  6. patheticasshole said: I want to get her book. I saw her interview with Barbara Walters, and I was surprised that, as hopeful and positive as she was, she was also very real about it. Not fake cheerful, like some might seem.
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