Cody's a nobody, but for some reason he receives an invitation and the opportunity of a lifetime. At first, it's the most fun he's ever had. But after a few days, everything in the park starts to go haywire. One at a time, rides malfunction. Simulations turn deadly. His fantasy world glitches, and the games become races for survival. A voice comes over the intercoms, then-ESCAPE was never a theme park for the rich and famous. It was a place for punishment. They have less than a week to escape from the park before it floods. Only five kids will be allowed to leave. Where Moitessier needs a bespoke sailboat, and plenty of supplies, to make his escape from the unbearableness of the day-to-day, Tomas Espedal needs only to step outside the door, decide whether to turn left or right, and just keep walking. This existentially narked Norwegian feels imprisoned by his limited world – his flat, the local bar where he drinks and then drinks some more. When this gets too much for him, he walks. But he refuses to wear hiking gear, preferring a suit. He loves to chain smoke as he goes, so as to annoy the more conservative ramblers. This is a deep and hilarious book about small truancies. It also illustrated in a general anecdotal kinda way how some poly marriages (generally those not manipulated too much by authority figures) such as the marriages of ms. Jessop's own parents can be healthy overall, but how the more these marriage were used as a tool of power and politics, the more people were forced and manipulated into marriages, the less healthy they seemed to be. It was nice to have both hints and solutions provided, so I could choose how much guidance I needed. How long did it take you to figure out who Uncle Roy was? I had a guess, but I finally gave up after the first quarter of the book and looked it up on the Internet! The Internet! I had the book right there! No one had bothered to tell me who a main character was. It finally was explained about the middle of the book. Whatever!

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From cover to cover, The Adventure of the London Waterworks provided several hours of entertainment, with details that rewarded multiple reads. You could enlist the help of your own Watson, but the book seems best suited for a solo puzzling experience, particularly because certain puzzles require close inspection.Carolyn Jessop tells the story of her life growing up in the FLDS in a family that had been involved and deeply faithful for many generations. She tells of the pain polygamy caused for her mother and the abuse she and her sisters endured as a result. She tells of being married off to a 50 year old man at the age of 18 and the rape and mental abuse she endured by him and his family, as well as feeliing helpless to protect the 8 children she would go on to be forced to have with him (3 pregnancies of which almost killed her, one child of which struggled with cancer of the spine). At one point, Jessop's husband puts her in direct harm of death and brags about it to anyone who will listen. So disgusting. Over 17 years of marriage, Jessop beings to see things clearly and question her once blind devotion to the authority of her faith. The final straw comes, when Warren Jeffs, now serving a prison sentence for actions having to do with accusations of incestual rape and the marrying off of underage girls, becomes the prophet of the church and begins to pull children out of school, burn books, and preach the need for blood atonement (the cutting of throats). He pulls apart families, and begins marrying off younger and younger girls to older and older men, banishing under age men from the faith. Carolyn finally fears for her children enough to escape and become the first woman in history to win full custody of her children, against a powerful man of the FLDS faith. Truelly an amazing women. Second thing. Horrible, horrible, horrible writing. If the story wasn't so compelling by itself, I never would have kept reading. I don't think this ever got past a second editor review. Awkward sentences, bad grammar, rotten phrasing, boring and confusing voice. It was terrible. Terrible. Terrible!!!!

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De korte hoofdstukken, het avontuur en de spanning zorgen er in ieder geval voor dat je door dit boek heen vliegt. Absoluut weer een heerlijk verhaal in deze serie als je het mij vraagt! I absolutely love how Alexander made Cody out to be what every typical kid wants to be famous. He wants to be known, and most people, even adults, can relate to that. This fact made it easy to relate to the main character about how some things work.

With her cognition of identity and purpose continually assaulted for manipulation, I am in awe of her survival skills and her ultimate escape and professions. My empathy is endless because it comes close to home for me. NOT within religion but in context to cultural expectation and "allowing" for skills and employment as a girl- that is extremely difficult to bridge. DO I know it. It is amazing that this woman not only escaped, but that she succeeded in being awarded custody of her children. It is a complete testament to her personal strength, determination, and individuality. She rose above and thought for herself. She wanted more for her children and knew that more was "out there." Unfortunately, once her eldest daughter (who had escaped with her) turned 18, she (the daughter) opted to return to the FLDS community. I cannot imagine the author's heartache and sense of loss, now losing her daughter to everything she (the author) has fought against. As of the writing of the book, the author had not heard from her daughter after her return to the FLDS. In the trial which I mentioned above, the author was a witness for the prosecution; her eldest daughter, a noted witness for the defendant, Warren Jeffs. Family against family. How does it all make sense? Brain wash from young age. A woman’s destiny in the FLDS is handed to her... She is assigned in marriage by the prophet who’s told by God the name of her husband-to-be. . Of course, they might be married to much older men, that are already married to many women, and have countless children. At eighteen, she had been married to the prophet Uncle Roy. The one who married the most was the favorite son among the prophet’s seventy children. The prophet is above all, All of us, myself included, believed that Uncle Rulon was the true prophet of God, so we would never dream of criticizing anything he said or did. , and his closest people get the same type of superiority. Any act of insanity is considered an act of divine inspiration. All are made to believe that a woman could become celestial goddess only if she was married to a man in this life who was worthy of becoming a god after death and only if she behaved herself, so he would choose to do so. She would get after she dies an appreciation for her in death that her husband never had for her in life.