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by Blaine Harden
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AmySea
AmySea rated it 9 years ago
Escape from Camp 14 is the story of Shin In Geun, now Shin Dong-hyuk, the only person known to have been bred and born inside a North Korean labor camp, indeed, its most infamous labor camp, and to have escaped and survived to tell his story. So here's the thing. I can't wrap my head around this ...
Lost in Libraries
Lost in Libraries rated it 10 years ago
Heartwrenching, horrifying, whatever shocking words you can think of describe this book well. It's the sort of book that spurs you on to do research about North Korea but then you realize that you can't do anything and frustration boils over. I would've given it a higher rating except that a few...
The Book Sniffer
The Book Sniffer rated it 10 years ago
A true horror story though there is always a silver lightning at the end. Shin a North Korean born in camp 14 ; one of the harshest places in the world. His escape and life in the camp reads to the banality of evil. to the selfishness of dictators to the cult of personality of North Korea's leaders ...
In Between the Pages
In Between the Pages rated it 10 years ago
Amazing. So interesting to learn what truly goes on in North Korea. I wish it was fiction - but sadly, it's not.
ashwednesday
ashwednesday rated it 11 years ago
”Tibetans have the Dalai Lama and Richard Gere, (the) Burmese have Aung San Suu Kyi, (the) Darfurians have Mia Farrow and George Clooney. North Koreans have no one like that. Actually North Koreans have imgur, Dennis Rodman and Ken Jeong in Stevie Wonder glasses.A couple of months back, Petra recomm...
Seriously, Read a Book!
Seriously, Read a Book! rated it 11 years ago
Shin Dong-Hyuk grew up not knowing that there were other children in other places who were did not have to learn to catch and roast rats in order to keep from starving, or who were not subjected to endless hours of labor while watching for errant behavior of peers to be reported immediately in a sor...
Seriously, Read a Book!
Seriously, Read a Book! rated it 11 years ago
Shin Dong-Hyuk grew up not knowing that there were other children in other places who were did not have to learn to catch and roast rats in order to keep from starving, or who were not subjected to endless hours of labor while watching for errant behavior of peers to be reported immediately in a sor...
Benefits of Being a Nerd
Benefits of Being a Nerd rated it 11 years ago
I read Escape From Camp 14 by Blaine Harden right at the end of February and I could not put it down. I read it in one day and was completely immersed in the terrifying world of North Korea's concentration camps. Escape From Camp 14 is a nonfiction book that recounts Shin Dong Hyuk's life in and e...
O! what Man will do fore a Rime!
O! what Man will do fore a Rime! rated it 11 years ago
Note: This review was taken directly from my Goodreads account. I'm not docking bits of star off because I don't find this story interesting or incredible or amazing, because I do and I think it is. To be born in a political labour camp and to escape to freedom and regular human beings? That's ama...
michaelgeralddealino
michaelgeralddealino rated it 11 years ago
When North Korea ever pops up in the news, the items usually covered are about a buffoon-like dictator, the absurd show of brainwashing (real or staged) of many of its people, and the threat of it getting a nuclear bomb. But the truth is far more serious. Because the grim reality is North Korea is t...
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