Melissa Rideough

Incredible, moving, inspirational, Dec 27 2009

As others have said, the author isn't that great, but the book itself and the STORY is amazing. After reading this book, you'll put Greg Mortenson to the status of a God almost. He is extremely kind, helpful and tolerable of other ways of life. I wish more people were like him. Hell, I wish politicians were more like him. Then we could get a lot of things done. The world would be a better place if everyone were like him.

The only reason why I'm taking a star off this review is because the writing is a little bit awkward. Despite that, it was almost impossible to put the book down.

Eh, it's okay., Dec 27 2009

The book was okay. The author had some interesting thoughts, but I think he didn't present them well at all. He basically says "It's common knowledge that this is right, but is it? No it isn't, my way is!". Which would be fine if he was better at actually giving real facts and explaining why he thinks his way is right. Mostly it was just "My way is right because I think it is".

While saying the common way of thinking is wrong even though there's lots of studies surrounding it, he will input his own way with no data or studies, somehow thinking it has more probability of being right and more credibility. I especially liked how he would cite certain articles to prove his point, but… Read more

One of my favourite books, Dec 5 2009

This was an amazing book. I don't know what else to say other than that.
Simply amazing and extremely emotional. I can't count the amount of times I felt anger when reading this book. What happened to Halima, her family, and some of the other tribes was just so unjust.