Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
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Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction
Book Type: Paperback
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If every American read this book...there would be no need for war. If every American took to heart this message...OUR lives would change so dramatically for the better!
I am a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer. I have never read another book that expressed more accurately what it is truly like to be..to be...to be without. To be rich beyond words and have no material comforts to speak of. Everything herein rang unequivically genuine.
I think the writing style was engaging...and sometimes raw, but in a good way. The first half flowed...and then the violence became such an overwhelming theme...and it was more difficult to read. Ahem...don't you think it should be?! Gone was the humor that flavored the early part of the book...it became deadly serious. Yep...that's the truth...deal with it.
And yet throughout the book is a man with a vision...a dream...a hope...a prayer. And he just keeps on going and going and going. At the beginning is a man who doesn't really know how to get the job done. Boy have I been there! I can tell you that many times I almost felt ashamed reading this book because I knew I would have given up. Dr. Greg is one helluva guy! He put up with stuff that most of us never would. And having "been there and done that" I'm telling you - it's so worth it!
Reading this book is better than watching Survivor...you might just understand the world a little better and you will certainly appreciate what you have more. If enough people read it...maybe Americans will even learn to share and play nice with the other children.
I know...it's a soapbox. Just read it. It'll will touch your heart, make you cry and it should piss you off...the answer is so simple...do you know how many schools you can build with a TRILLION dollars?! (that was how much we spent in these wars after just a few years...and time after time, we promise to rebuild and help people and then they are forgotten...)
I'd love to see it become required reading in high school!
I am a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer. I have never read another book that expressed more accurately what it is truly like to be..to be...to be without. To be rich beyond words and have no material comforts to speak of. Everything herein rang unequivically genuine.
I think the writing style was engaging...and sometimes raw, but in a good way. The first half flowed...and then the violence became such an overwhelming theme...and it was more difficult to read. Ahem...don't you think it should be?! Gone was the humor that flavored the early part of the book...it became deadly serious. Yep...that's the truth...deal with it.
And yet throughout the book is a man with a vision...a dream...a hope...a prayer. And he just keeps on going and going and going. At the beginning is a man who doesn't really know how to get the job done. Boy have I been there! I can tell you that many times I almost felt ashamed reading this book because I knew I would have given up. Dr. Greg is one helluva guy! He put up with stuff that most of us never would. And having "been there and done that" I'm telling you - it's so worth it!
Reading this book is better than watching Survivor...you might just understand the world a little better and you will certainly appreciate what you have more. If enough people read it...maybe Americans will even learn to share and play nice with the other children.
I know...it's a soapbox. Just read it. It'll will touch your heart, make you cry and it should piss you off...the answer is so simple...do you know how many schools you can build with a TRILLION dollars?! (that was how much we spent in these wars after just a few years...and time after time, we promise to rebuild and help people and then they are forgotten...)
I'd love to see it become required reading in high school!
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