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A journalist's shocking and sad story
Anderson Cooper's experiences as a journalist in some of the world's most gruesome places are told against a background of his own personal loss and sadness. He writes about the horrors of Sri Lanka after the tsunami, war-torn Iraq and Sarajevo, the famine in Niger, and New Orleans after Katrina. In each ghastly place, painful memories are triggered of his father's early...
Publié il y a 10 mois par Kona
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Perspective
I recently read this one and I have to say that I was surprised at how approachable this book is. By approachable I mean that it's very well phrased and each paragraph is filled with vivid imagery of things that he's seen in all his travels.
Personally, I thought the book offered some great observations from someone who has been present in some of the most...
Publié le Juil 16 2006 par Jordan Majeau
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A journalist's shocking and sad story, Janv. 11 2009
Anderson Cooper's experiences as a journalist in some of the world's most gruesome places are told against a background of his own personal loss and sadness. He writes about the horrors of Sri Lanka after the tsunami, war-torn Iraq and Sarajevo, the famine in Niger, and New Orleans after Katrina. In each ghastly place, painful memories are triggered of his father's early death and his brother's suicide.
He writes in the present tense with a sense of immediacy, urgency, and intimacy. He often muses that his star has risen with the world's body count, that his fame is based on showing the suffering of thousands around the globe. He's a passionate professional, but also seems vulnerable and haunted by his grief. The graphic descriptions of misery are hard to read, but they are somewhat balanced by his genuine concern for those he writes about.
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like AC360 in book form, Aoû 12 2007
The book hops around within chapters from Anderson Cooper's boyhood/young adulthood to his initial forays as a foreign correspondent for Channel One to his current work with CNN. It is a fascinating way to write a book and his breezy, easygoing yet powerful way of speaking comes through as it does weeknights on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360.
I won't give too much away but you will better understand where Cooper is coming from after reading his tragic family history (losing both his father and his brother far too soon). In fact this book is better than what we see on TV from him as we get to learn his real emotions and his inner conflicts without it evolving into an "oh woe is me" tale. Plus there is loads of gallows humor sprinkled throughout.
A quick read but a thoroughly enjoyable one.
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should be 10 stars. or 11., Nov. 22 2006
Having been to the former Yugoslavia for 23 months during "the noisy times"
I can relate to some of the feelings Anderson Cooper must have also felt during his travels.
Everyone should read this, give it to everyone for the holidays!!
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Worth reading for the writing alone, Sep 22 2006
I came across this book because I have been watching AC 360 since its inception and was always interested to know more about this rather strange man who looks young, yet all grey haired. Not that there is anything "wrong" with being prematurely grey, but there was something about him that was unique and different from anyone else on television.
Although this book is a memoir, I walked away not really knowing what he really thinks about all that he has witnessed and experienced. There are times he mentions here and there about how he is feeling, but I just can't get a sense of what he is really feeling. He describes what he sees in a rather graphic yet very simple detail. The feelings that are generated from reading this book comes from the reader, not from Anderson. At the end of the book he says that all of the painful memories of his past have now come to some form of rest. But you don't see him talking about how he has resolved all of the pain and what he thinks about all that has happened to him. You just find yourself in the last chapter, and he simply mentions how everything is somehow OK now. So you really don't get to know what's really going on inside him, and I wished he talked about his feelings and his thinking. After all, it is a memoir, but it somehow feels like it isn't.
The writing is superb though. I've read his articles in Details magazine, and he writes as though he is talking. There is no waste, no big words that takes up space. It's always to the point, and very easy to read. He describes so much in very short sentences. It's as though each word is jam packed with so many meaning behind it.
Each chapter starts off with an incident or a story, but then you quickly find yourself in a totally different story, as he begins talking about another incident that has no bearing with the one before. For example, a chapter may say: "The Tsunami." But within this one chapter, you read about his childhood, then about how he volunteers for CNN during the new year to avoid socializing, then off to another completly different story. Thus, each chapter has several different stories in it. Some may find such a layout rather disorienting. But I think it's deliberate, to show how memories are not coherent, that it remains in the mind as jumbled thoughts, all floating around in one big soup. Also, it enalbes the reader to expereince what it must be like to all of a sudden be in one country, then within the next 24 hours find oneself in the middle of a bloody genocide in Rwanda, for example. It seems that's how Anderson lives his life--disorienting, but full of life's adventure.
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Couldn't, and didn't, want to put it down, Sep 19 2006
Cooper has proven himself to be a fluid and vivid story teller. While some of the details are gruesome he expresses them in a way that makes you think about each situation and the reality involved.
I left this book wanting to know more about the individuals Cooper came across in his journeys, and how their lives are now. I also developed a deeper sense of humanity and how my small part in it can help to change a poor outlook for others.
I see Cooper as wanting to be a "bandaid" to people/countries that have been forgotten and/or destroyed be it through nature, war or poverty. This book should aid in the healing process by awakening us to the realities in the world and allow us to helping others, not just financially but emotionally as well.
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Dispatches from the edge of what?, Aoû 28 2006
I found this book to be a very compelling read if somewhat troubling. There is no question that the author is gifted in his craft telling of his many encounters with intelligence and at times down to earth phrasing. Cooper's first hand accounts of the tragedy he witnesses as a front line journalist is thought provoking as well as extremely moving. Cooper cuts to the chase with his opinionated views (and rightfully so) of the sub human treatment of the victims he encounters, not only in third world countries but also smack dab in his own U.S.A. An excellent account of his encounters and hidden feelings.. What bothered me about this book was the author himself. On one hand he decries the fact that the journalists themselves have become the prime focus of the stories covering human tragedy and yet he himself is no different from those he criticizes. Also, the reader is left with an overwhelming feeling of helplessness that is extremely uncomfortable.Cooper, who undoubtedly has intimate knowlege of the machinations involved in the relief efforts in any human tragedy, offers no concrete thought on how to change the abysmal state of affairs surrounding this plight. As to the title, one wonders if the "edge" Cooper is referring to is the edge of human suffering or the tenuous grip Cooper himself seems to have in clinging to a more personal edge for fear of falling into the abyss of his own insecurities and grip on mental stability. I came away with a feeling of despondancy...both for humanity and for Coopers own fragile state of mind. I fear that one day, Cooper is destined to follow in his older brothers footsteps, and that would be a tremendous loss to us all.
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A book for the years!, Aoû 17 2006
It is so real,so close to the real people.Thank you Mr Cooper. from one an artis to another you are and artis with your letters, agreat man,Mrs,Corie G Rodriguez.
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Perspective, Juil 16 2006
I recently read this one and I have to say that I was surprised at how approachable this book is. By approachable I mean that it's very well phrased and each paragraph is filled with vivid imagery of things that he's seen in all his travels.
Personally, I thought the book offered some great observations from someone who has been present in some of the most horrific events that has taken place in the world over the last 10 or so years.
The book is fairly gruesome and dark. That's where I felt the book was lacking. Granted it is his memoires, but at the same time, I was hoping he might add something or suggest something that might offer hope to the world. Anyone can tell a stomach turning story about rotting corpes. What would have made the book better is if he could have contributed more in a constructive way. Even with that, it was a good read.
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