Kris L. (miss-info) reviewed on 8/26/2009 + 386 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 4

While I found most of this book interesting, I was not moved by it. There were several times I was angry with Mortenson. He left his children for months at a time, year after year, to care for other people's children instead. Even when he was home, he would hardly spend a single night with his family before going away on speaking engagements. He continually accepted an income hardly above poverty level so there would be more money for the Muslim children; what was his family living on? If he's absent and his wife needs a full-time job to survive, who's caring for the little ones? I seriously feel sorry for his kids. I also did not like the political heavy-handedness at the end of the book, or the blatant appeal for money. It made me feel the entire book was written simply as a fund-raiser, which it well may have been. I made myself read it to the end, but I was not happy when I got there.

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