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1: Fascinating!
This book is so interesting because it is one woman's experience in the FLDS church, which is deeply rooted in polygamy. The women shown in this story are abused so much that it is almost unbelievable that it really could be happening in our country. Escape is very eye-opening and will grab anyone's attention! Worth reading!! As a side note, the FLDS or Fundamental Latter Day Saints is not the same thing as the LDS or "Mormon" church. The LDS or Mormons do not believe in polygamy.
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2: A must read!
This book is fascinating and sad all at the same time. It not only touches the victims of FLDS but anyone who has been in a abusive situation. Carolyn is an extraordinary woman! I applaud her courage and strength. I couldn't put this book down. It is a unique and current look into the FLDS. Carolyn and Laura Palmer are very descriptive and make it feel as if you are actually witnessing the events; which can be somewhat painful to read. I think it is an important book that should be read by all.
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3: No words can describe...
See what happens when you give a girl an education? I trust the FLDS organization learned its lesson with Carolyn Jessop and has forbidden college education for females. God only knows what would happen if more women became educated. They would begin to think, for heavens sake! Escape is equal parts abomination and fascination. The thought that there is even a shred of truth to this book and that the FLDS still thrives is criminal. Some might say that only in our great country could and should such religious freedoms be allowed. I say that is taking the notion of freedom to the extreme. Though stylistically mediocre, Escape is an important book for women everywhere who chain themselves, by their own free will, to patriarchal prisons. Such limitations may seem safe at the start, even dreamily without accountability. But in the end, the slave will either go mad or free. Women are human afterall.
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4: Escape
This has to be one of the best non fiction stories i have ever read, cannot beleive in this century that this horrible abuse of women and children is allowed to exist.
Those poor girls have never had a chance to know what a normal life should be like. Brave Carolyn for doing what she did.
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5: A Book About Far More than Polygamy
"Escape" has had a more profound impact on me than perhaps any book in recent memory. This is not just a book about a fundamentalist religion and its abuse of women. Her experiences in the FLDS provide a roadmap for how dogma of any kind can so quickly be used by the powerful against the powerless. Her description of a self-referential faith as a control mechanism has analogs in both the religious and secular worlds.
My only criticism of the book might be that she did not succeed in explaining how mind control within the FLDS community was so much more powerful than physical control. Why did she stay for so long in the face of such abuse? Why didn't she reach out to those in the medical profession that could have helped her? I know why, but as I was reading her book I kept thinking how those who were raised in modern America would not.
For those readers that do not come out of a fundamentalist upbringing, it may be impossible to ever fully understand Carolyn's actions. This does not, however, invalidate her story. It rings true to me, and hopefully will to all those who read it.
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