Yes, missing chance. Garrido slipping through the cracks of probation and parole? Believe me, I blame the police for their failures in this and everything else they fail at. I believe in blame being squarely placed. But I can't believe in that and then place blame where it doesn't belong. One very large missed chance is when a neighbor of Garrido's actually called to report children living in tents in Garrido's backyard.
The police deputy who reported apparently talked to Garrido at the front door and left without checking the backyard. That, my friends, is a missed chance and that alone is absolutely horrendous. That alone shows how much society wants to protect the criminal and not the victim s. But oh, the police "apologized". That's classic. I'm sorry that you were raped, abused, impregnated, withheld from your family, friends, life in general and that we 'missed the chance' to protect you and save you.
I'm, uh, really sorry about that. I hope she said that to the bastards. In paramedics responded to Garrido's because of a child with a shoulder injury from a swimming accident. Nevermind that Garrido shouldn't have had children on his property. Probation and Parole was never notified. Oh, those were his brothers kids!
Well, alrighty then. It ain't me in trouble. Another note I made while reading: This is just a note to parents and caregivers who tend to think stuff like this doesn't happen. Dugard relates in here how Garrido and his wife would drive to school playgrounds and parks and videotape little girls. The wife would even talk to them at times, get them to do splits and to sit with their legs apart so Garrido could get "good" shots. She even had a whole cut out of one of her purses for a video camera.
That shit is REAL scary. None of these little girls were "hurt" in the usual sense but I know I don't want some pervert taking advantage of my daughters innocence to get her to sit with her legs open and then use that recorded video for his own disgusting, perverted pleasure. Basically, the story here is a unique one but it's told in a way that's sort of aggravating, most likely because of her lack of early education.
I do hope this was cathartic for her and I hope she lives a wonderful life, her and her entire family. I hope Garrido, his disgusting p. View all 10 comments.
Aug 01, Readingmomma rated it it was amazing. I am definately going to hug my children a little tighter and make sure I remember the promises I make to them after reading this book. I remember seeing Jaycee's face on missing posters and praying for her when I was a teenager.
I also remember the day I was watching the news and heard the news of incredible discovery. While I was reading this book I could not stop thinking about when I was eleven years old.
Jaycee does a wonderful job of showing exactly how her life was stolen. I guess because I am definately going to hug my children a little tighter and make sure I remember the promises I make to them after reading this book. I guess because I am only few years older than Jaycee I can't help but think of all that has happened in my life during the last 18 years. This book although it was a quick read was by no means an easy read.
Jaycee is an amazing young women. At one point in the book she describes herself as a coward but in my oppinion she is anything but. She is one bravest women I can think of. After reading her story I was able to see just how much of a psycological hold her abducters had over her.
Thier is so much I want to say about this book but I just can't wrap my mind around it all at this time so I will be writting more as I sort through everything. I'm so angry at the system for failing her. I can't help but feel like not only was she victimized by her captors but by the system who was put in place to protect her all of us really. I can understand missing her on one or even two of the visits but over eighteen years is just ridiculous.
Probation officers came to that house over sixty times during her captivity why in all those times did'nt they just one check the backyard. The neighbor even called the cops to report that children where living in tents in the backyard. When the sherrif came to ivestigate he never bothered to go into the backyard, once again I am left wondering WHY. Jaycee's story has definately made me loose faith in the so called system.
I look at my three little girls and feel all the more need to protect them. I'm so proud of Jaycee for surviving not only physically but mentally to. I really liked the part about the reunification process. I honestly was very naive about what reuniting her with her family would entail. I think of all she lost during those eighteen years and its mindblowing. I want to thank her therapist for doing such a wonderful job with helping her. I do wish she would have talked a little more about how her daughters felt when they found out everything but I do understand her need to protect them.
I can't wait to see her build her foundation and rebuild her life. Aug 22, Kathy rated it it was amazing. The five stars are not for the literary value of this book, but for the honest telling of what these 18 stolen years were like for Jaycee Dugard. I am glad she allowed us to read this story in her own words, and not some smooth, glossy version of her story written by a ghost writer. The simple language enhanced this book in my opinion. You really felt the presence of that young girl reliving her story.
This is a remarkable young lady with more strength than I can imagine ever having. I feel we e The five stars are not for the literary value of this book, but for the honest telling of what these 18 stolen years were like for Jaycee Dugard. I feel we each owe it to her to read her story. For 18 years she was not able to honestly express what she was thinking and what she was feeling. She felt invisible. This is her way of saying I exist, this is who I am, and I have no reason to be ashamed.
I also support her desire to not let her abductor get away with his belief that the world would never know the details of what he did. This book is a way to help give Jaycee back her life and her voice. In this country that does not honor its children, allows pedophiles to revictimize again and again, and then turns them free to victimize again, we owe the vicitms the respect of listening to their story.
The number of times that probation officers actually saw young girls in the home of this known sex offender and never pursued verifying who they were and why there were there is beyond belief, and yet it is true. When are we as a country going to stand up for our children. I would say this book would be too difficult to read for parents whose children who are still under 18 years of age. View 1 comment. Apr 20, Mandy rated it it was amazing. I read this book in one day. I was captured by Jaycee's words and her story.
She endured so much and was such a brave woman. I probably would have given up, but she pressed on and loved to tell a tale that no one could even think to write for fiction!
View all 6 comments. Feb 02, Suzanne rated it it was amazing Shelves: gave-away , owned-donated , memoir. I haven't read a memoir of this kind before. They're so hard to read. This need not be a literary review but a review of this woman's story, and I've rated it a full 5 stars.
Like most of us I'd heard about this over the years, but didn't consider reading her memoir until I stumbled across it in a second hand bookshop just last week. Jaycee Dugard has done an amazing job telling us her story. It would have been tremendously hard to do. Right from the start she did tell us it will be a bit disjoin I haven't read a memoir of this kind before. Right from the start she did tell us it will be a bit disjointed and she might go off onto different tangents, but this is to be expected and I didn't mind her writing style at all.
She's done so well for not having attended school since the age of I love that she loved to write as she was held captive and always had a love for reading. She's a gracious and forgiving lady, and the fact that she's emerged this way is outstanding. She has formed an organisation to help people deal with events such as she's experienced, and anyone receiving help from her will be a lucky person, as she seems to have an amazing character after her horrific life circumstances.
I sincerely hope Jaycee Dugard is proud of her work in telling her story. View all 8 comments. Although written by a woman with limited education due to her eighteen years in captivity after a terrifying abduction aged just eleven, this an intriguing memoir covering the years of her confinement and her re introduction into society.
For a book covering such a long period of time I was surprised this book wasn't longer, but having said that I enjoyed - for want of a better phrase - the book and thought it was generally well told.
A follow up to this memoir would be welcomed to find out more Although written by a woman with limited education due to her eighteen years in captivity after a terrifying abduction aged just eleven, this an intriguing memoir covering the years of her confinement and her re introduction into society. A follow up to this memoir would be welcomed to find out more of what has become since of the brave Jaycee and her two daughters.
Jul 16, Jae rated it liked it Shelves: owned. When Jaycee Dugard was first found, my fascination with her case originally grew out of a desire to better understand another famous kidnapping victim who had been in a somewhat similar situation: Elisabeth Fritzl. But I have stayed interested for one major reason: Ms. Dugard has been incredibly adept at keeping control over her own story and maintaining her agency at all times.
This book can be seen as the culmination of those efforts, since Ms. Dugard has written her own book about her own exp When Jaycee Dugard was first found, my fascination with her case originally grew out of a desire to better understand another famous kidnapping victim who had been in a somewhat similar situation: Elisabeth Fritzl.
Dugard has written her own book about her own experiences rather than letting journalists write them or worse: not letting journalists write them but watching them get written anyway. Don't read it out of prurient interest, in other words. If you know anything about what was said in the media when she was found, there's probably nothing about the details of her captivity that will surprise you anyway.
The actual remarkable part is Ms. Dugard's agency, which is all over this book. No one made her write it; she decided to. No one told her which experiences to share and which ones to keep private; that was her decision. And all of the reflections on her experiences are in her own voice, because she wrote every word herself. Aug 22, Becca rated it it was ok. What Jaycee Dugard experienced for 18 years is, beyond question, horrendous. And it is an achievement that her book keeps the sensationalism to a minimum, focusing rather on the more basic lines of thought of her young self.
She is a clear writer, if overly simplistic. However, as a memoir, if we are to take her unparalleled story aside, A Stolen Life does not amaze. Truly amazing memoirs are not made by the occurrences of the life it follows, but rather by the ability of the memoirist to transce What Jaycee Dugard experienced for 18 years is, beyond question, horrendous.
Truly amazing memoirs are not made by the occurrences of the life it follows, but rather by the ability of the memoirist to transcend their experiences and explore deeper meanings, repercussions, and universality. Jaycee's story is worth being told, but the structure of the book with its simple, chronological chapter structure and interspersed and somewhat repetitive "Reflections" sections doesn't bring Jaycee's story beyond the visceral moment-by-moment trauma. Perhaps such exploration would take more distance from her experiences, or perhaps it is simply too painful.
While A Stolen Life is absolutely a story worth telling, and hearing, it didn't awaken any deeper understandings or meanings for me beyond compassion for Jaycee. Jul 08, Ashley rated it it was ok Shelves: celeb-tell-alls.
Let's be honest- this was more of a therapeutic assignment rather than anything else. Initially I was interested in reading this because I wanted to know the 'complete' story. Unfortunately I felt that what I read I had read before in magazine articles. There was little new information. I felt like to go along with her recovery the author was given free range and told to most likely just 'writer her story'. While I can understand that it must have been quite hard for her I do feel that someone c Let's be honest- this was more of a therapeutic assignment rather than anything else.
While I can understand that it must have been quite hard for her I do feel that someone could have gone through and made it more 'user-friendly'. I can understand that the author did not want her children's names revealed but at the same time they already were to the public via court documents and other media outlets. Towards the end of the book I did feel like I was just reading notes from her therapist's notebook on what exercises they practiced, how well she did and how she made the connections.
The story in itself is a sad one and we get that, we expect that. Therefore I feel there should probably have been a little more healing time before this book was published. Because as of now it simply comes off as rushed.
I'm not sure if the book was published before the author was awarded the 20 million dollars, but perhaps this was a way of trying to secure financial safety for her daughters' futures. View all 3 comments. How can you not appreciate this book? Just stop for a second and think about yourself being in her situation. How can anyone survive being captive from age 11 for 18 years?
I wanted to rate this book with 5 stars. But that wouldn't be honest, it would be out of sympathy. You really feel like a child wrote this book, but maybe this was the intention, because her formal education stopped when she was only 11 years old. The story jumps around a lot. I found it unnecessary when I read about all thos How can you not appreciate this book? I found it unnecessary when I read about all those pets she had and journey entries.
I just don't know… I expected to feel her pain, rage, anger through reading this book. But I didn't, she made it too mellow. People that did this to her are disgusting and they don't deserve a nice word, but you don't get this feeling while reading this book. View all 5 comments. Jul 11, Birdy rated it it was amazing Shelves: reads. Jaycee Dugard's childhood was stolen from her, with this memoir, I hope it will give her and her daughters an opportunity to have a better life.
I brought this book in support of Jaycee. Jun 04, Kavita rated it did not like it Shelves: autobiography-memoir , kitschy-child-narrator , true-crime , real-women , usa.
It's amazing how one person can be kept captive for 18 years and not a single soul even suspects anything amiss. This book is Jaycee Dugard's story of her life in captivity. The story telling is simplistic in keeping with the fact that she never got a chance to complete her school education. The book could have done with some editing if only to make the sentence structure better and more readable.
The middle of the book is full of journal entries written by Jaycee during her captivity and some o It's amazing how one person can be kept captive for 18 years and not a single soul even suspects anything amiss. The middle of the book is full of journal entries written by Jaycee during her captivity and some of the passages are quite poignant. I would not really recommend this book because there are just too many stories about cats and dogs and not enough analysis of her own life or that of her captors.
For instance, while I found her positive affirmations really impressive, how and why did she get the inspiration to be so positive in a negative environment? I also am a little hazy about why Phillip turned himself in and I find Nancy's role in the entire saga rather unfathomable. She obviously did not want Jaycee around, so why didn't she release her? These, and many more questions are left unanswered by the author.
I really feel for Jaycee's stolen life and hope she manages to get the help she needs and have a bright future, but I really did not need to read about her cats and dogs, page after page after page. As she herself says in the preface, come back to me in ten years time when I've figured things out better.
Maybe that's a good idea. One of the hardest books I've ever read because of the subject matter. Dugard has been through hell and back. Her story is an inspiration to all who face some sort of adversity and want to give up.
While she had moments of despair who wouldn't? Even post-captivity, Dugard has maintain One of the hardest books I've ever read because of the subject matter. Even post-captivity, Dugard has maintained an attitude that most could not. She refused - and refuses - to waste energy hating the people who stole her life. An amazing woman for sure. Jul 13, Doug Bradshaw rated it really liked it. Having followed the Elizabeth Smart abduction, trial and consequences here in SLC, when I heard about what had happened to Jaycee Dugard, my heart went out to her big time and I've been fascinated to hear more about her story and to find out as much as possible about the case.
As I finished up her book and take of her own life, I was amazed at how well she seems to have come out of it all and how well adjusted and loving she seems to be.
The book is pretty simple and straight forward. If you don' Having followed the Elizabeth Smart abduction, trial and consequences here in SLC, when I heard about what had happened to Jaycee Dugard, my heart went out to her big time and I've been fascinated to hear more about her story and to find out as much as possible about the case. If you don't already know, she was kidnapped when she was 11 years old by a convicted rapist and pedophile and then kept in his compound for 18 years, undetected by his parole officers.
During that time she was used as a sex slave and bore two daughters that she raised at the compound. It is clear that he was a manipulative, drugged out, selfish creep who totally controlled young submissive Jaycee in every way. He was married and it's also clear that his wife Nancy was also under his manipulative and controlling spell, because she did nothing to set Jaycee free or to stop the abuse.
So Jaycee lived through 18 years of living in a tent or other areas of the compound without a toilet or shower, raising two young children, being fed when Philip and or Nancy where in the mood to feed her and then, while she was still young enough to be sexually attractive to him, he would have a meth "run" and use her sometimes for several days in a row to perform various sexual acts, etc. She is such a sweet and innocent person.
It almost seems as if she were still eleven years old when she wrote the story. She was genuinely worried whether her mother would accept her back because she had the two children. The more I write, the harder it becomes. On the one hand, I want to go on. In , at just 14, Dugard gave a birth to a daughter. In the backyard. With no medical care. Becoming a mother changed her. But it also made escape tougher since it made the logistics of escape — where would you go?
This became doubly true when Dugard gave birth to a second child three years later in Eventually, Garrido gave Dugard more freedom, allowing her the use of more of shed space, providing her a TV, a mini fridge and a better bathroom for the first few years she had to use a bucket that would often fill to overflowing and fencing off part of the backyard so she could go outside some.
They settled down into a weird normal routine. They ate dinner together and watched movies. Dugard started helping Garrido with a small printing business.
Nobody recognized her, and she was too scared to tell anyone her real name. The determination of a mother to take care of her kids is an awesome thing.
Her life entered a kind of Twilight Zone version of ordinary monotony, where nothing much happened on a daily basis. Days passed into weeks, weeks into months and months into years. Dugard takes us through these years by reproducing some pages from her secret journal that alternate between normal — a list of resolutions to weed the garden and exercise more — and the heartbreaking — a passage where she wonders if her mother remembers her.
Dugard may have resigned herself to her captivity, but she never forgot who she was and never stopped dreaming of returning to her old life.
But after more than a decade with the Garridos and two young daughters to care for, Dugard was a psychological captive, unable to believe that she could leave even though she had access to the Internet and a phone. I know it would take just a couple of clicks, I could see her.
I had somebody who was mine," she said. Ms Dugard said there was "a switch" she had to turn off to survive her imprisonment. The ABC interview was the most-watched summertime current affairs programme since , the Nielsen Company reported.
Ms Dugard was freed in after police officers at the University of California at Berkeley saw Phillip Garrido on the campus with her and her children and became suspicious. Police in California came under fire after Ms Dugard's discovery because Phillip Garrido had a previous conviction for rape, involving an abduction, and was on the sex offenders list.
He received years in prison for Ms Dugard's abduction, while his wife was handed 36 years to life. Profile: Phillip Garrido. Timeline: Jaycee Lee Dugard case. Jaycee Dugard rues 'stolen life'.
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