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Inclou el nom: Michael Link

Obres de Mike Link

Journeys to Door County (1985) 16 exemplars
Eastern Promise (1979) 14 exemplars
Hiking Minnesota (1999) 9 exemplars
Outdoor Education (1981) 8 exemplars
Inviolate (2011) 7 exemplars
Michigan Day Trips by Theme (2013) 4 exemplars

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Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
País (per posar en el mapa)
USA
Llocs de residència
Minnesota, USA
Professions
naturalist
writer
educator
Organitzacions
Audubon Center of the North Woods (founder|director)
Biografia breu
Mike Link is the founder and director of the Audubon Center of the North Woods. He is a board member of numerous organizations and societies related to nature, conservation, and wildlife.

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Aquesta ressenya s'ha escrit per al programa Donatius de membres de LibraryThing.
Extremely close-to-home subjects for many people, but this book was a great read. I had a hard time reading the mind of a pedophile and even harder reading the struggles of the victims, but it's a worthy read.
 
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pandawnmonium | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Mar 5, 2013 |
Aquesta ressenya s'ha escrit per al programa Donatius de membres de LibraryThing.
Good story, but touchy subject.

I like the book, but would probably be a difficult or impossible read for someone who has been touched by something like this.

I agree with what a previous review stated. I wish this world did not exist.

However, I still found the story compelling.
 
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tanyaj101 | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Jul 1, 2011 |
Aquesta ressenya s'ha escrit per al programa Donatius de membres de LibraryThing.
I won this book from Library Thing's Member Giveaways.

This book is very dark at times, but also very interesting. It delves into pedophilia from both the victim's aspect as well as from the pedophiliac's point of view.

There are two characters who are depicted as pedophiliacs in this book and the history of the events leading to their crimes are explained, from innocent encounters to rape itself. The first evolved pedophilac is a high school teenage boy who at first innocently explores sex with a girl much younger than himself, which evolves into him raping one girl and one woman. This book does not go into detail of the rapes, which I was very glad of, but does give a picture of what transpires in the victim's mind during the rapes. The second character who is depicted as a pedophiliac is a 21 year old college student, who innocently falls for a very precocious twelve year old girl in his apartment building. At first he sees himself as a friend and mentor to this girl, but soon realizes that he has feelings for this girl who seems much older for her age. This girl takes liberties at seducing him and succeeds in kissing him and asks him to take her picture in the nude in a tasteful way. He knows this is wrong, but cannot stop himself from doing this. Soon after, the girl and her mother move away and he doesn't see her again until years later.

This book depicts pedophilia from two opposite ends of the spectrum and goes into the victim's lives and shows the years of recovery that takes place after a violent rape in the first scenario and also looks at the "pedophiliac's" recovery of his own guilt, knowing that what he did crossed moral boundaries and how it affected his own life.

This is a good book, interesting and thought provoking and I would recommend it to those who don't mind reading about dark subject material and looking at pedophilia from a developmental aspect and how it affects all parties involved.
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asigg44 | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | May 10, 2011 |
Aquesta ressenya s'ha escrit per al programa Donatius de membres de LibraryThing.
I have to admit, that at first, I was a little turned off by the subject matter. But, one thing the book does it take a real look at pedophilia, and how it truly affects the lives of others.

The biggest problem I had with this book was that there were too many characters and too much going on. There wasn't enough time spent on the characters for me to really feel a connection with them. I also think Gene Gillian, one of the sexual predators, was one of the best characters, and was un...moreI have to admit, that at first, I was a little turned off by the subject matter. But, one thing the book does it take a real look at pedophilia, and how it truly affects the lives of others.

The biggest problem I had with this book was that there were too many characters and too much going on. There wasn't enough time spent on the characters for me to really feel a connection with them. I also think Gene Gillian, one of the sexual predators, was one of the best characters, and was under-utilized. I would have liked to see more of what happened to him once he was found out in Hawaii.

The book skips around a lot from different characters. Some, I wasn't sure what their true connection was to the story (the man from Halloween who always dressed differently each year... for instance). Because there were so many characters, the extraneous ones made it more difficult to follow the story.

In the end, I think the ideas were there, but that it wasn't really completely fleshed out. A lot of the characters seemed to come together in the end, but still, there was a bit of confusion about who was who and how they connected to the overall story.
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AlexisLeno | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Apr 28, 2011 |

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Membres
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Popularitat
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Valoració
½ 3.6
Ressenyes
8
ISBN
44
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