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Author: Jeannette Walls
Publisher: Scribner
Dimension: 9.5 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
Weight: 1.2 pounds.

Angela's Ashes , only much worse - it's America
This detailed memoir takes us into the squalid and unsettling world of two total whack-jobs who unfortunately produced four kids. Gleefully "excitment addicted" mom comprehensively and unbelievably ignores her small children, placing them in harms way... more

Fantastically Written
Fantastically written book by an author I had not heard of before. I am very impressed with the memoir style of books hitting it big today, and this book by far should be a bestseller.
Also read: Nightmares Echo and Smashed

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Awesome and most INTERESTING read!
I read about this book in a magazine and felt the urge to buy it and was so glad I did.... it was absolutely a wonderful journey into Jeannette Walls' life with her family. Ms. Walls' writing style was most enjoyable -- a real page turner for sure! ... more

Emotional Breakthrough
Jeannette Walls' new book "The Glass Castle" is an incredible story. A highly descriptive, highly entertaining detailing of a dysfunctional childhood Walls spent most of her life hiding and denying, the story pours out like a patient in therapy. It strikes... more

I loved it !!
I thought her book was funny, loving and real. I found myself laughing and then within seconds I was close to tears. She deserves five stars and as I recall a singal star was all she got for christmas one year. Outside of Whispers of the Wicked saints... more

Great!
One phenom memoir! On the same level of greatness as My Fractured Life and Running With Scissors.

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The Glass Castle is a very moving memoir
The life of Jeannette Walls should inspire everyone who reads The Glass Castle. It is a very moving memoir about it feels likes to be poor. Living with a father who suffered with the disease of alcoholism made her childhood tense and scary, and I... more

See through
It might be easier to tell you what this book is NOT about. But then, that's a chore also. Suffice it to say that, if you enjoyed books such as McCrae's CHILDREN'S CORNER or the works of some of the more "outisde" authors (think DRY or A MILLION LITTLE... more

Best Book I've Read in Years!
The Glass Castle is a brave book. It's well written with insight in to a facinating family that were intelligent yet chose to live in poverty. Jeannette Wells is a remarkable and accomplished woman. Leaving home at an early age, she went to collage and... more

Strong Book
Ms. walls writes a strong and powerful book in her story "Glass Castles". She shows so much strength,endurance and pride in her words. This makes the book well worth the read.
It is truly a great memoir and Ms. Walls out does herself as an author.... more

Bravery
This is one of the best memoirs I have read to date. The author shows us bravery in the face of a devastating life. To be a celebrity now, and yet hand us her life with open arms is astounding to me. She is also a fantastic writer!

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Great Book
I loved this book. I couldn't stop reading it. It's a heartbreaking story of survival and forgiveness.

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Overcoming Skedaddle
Perhaps it was a fierce intelligence that lifted Jeannette Walls out of the well of despair into which her "parents" were forever dipping her (an apt metaphor considering her first swimming lesson). I put quotes around the word parents in the last sentence... more

She Owns Venus
This is a "can't put down" memoir along the lines of "Angela's Ashes" and "The Liar's Club". Jeannette Walls takes us to places that most of us have never been, and yet, some aspects of her childhood will be familiar to all of us 40-somethings (e.g.,... more

Richly textured - absolutely wonderful!
Children survive and actually flourish under the iconoclastic blanket of two very weird and oftentimes self-serving parents. I have six children and have purchased a copy of this incredibly passionate novel for each of them. No one can ecape the lessons... more

Venus Belongs to Walls
"My parents, Rose Mary and Rex Walls, and their wedding day - 1956".

There it is. A photo of a young couple, in love, flush with promise. The bride looking shy at the camera. The groom, square jawed and filled with good humor. It's stunning... more

Compelling

Absolutely compelling book about a child that lives through an abusive situation and learns to deal with it and find the courage to overcome and write about it for the whole world to understand. I rate this book highly among books such as more

Good Book
I just want to let everyone know...this is a good book, worth to buy.

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Tell all of your friends.
This is simply the best memoir I have ever read.

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It's the Jeannette I know
I met Jeannette back when she first came to New York and I can attest that the book is a true account of what her life was like, at least to the degree I knew about it (obvoiusly many things were shielded from outside observers). So if there are any... more

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