(Larger Image)
|
Held Captive: The Kidnapping and Rescue of Elizabeth Smart
by Maggie Haberman, Jeane MacIntosh
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Avon (2003-07-01)
ISBN: 0060580208
EAN: 9780060580209
Dewey Decimal #: 364.154
Binding/Media: Mass Market Paperback - 342 pages
Edition: First Printing
Release Date: 2003-06-24
SKU: P0041-Captive2-R
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: First Avon Books PB printing: July 2003. First printing (full # line). Cover has some ghost tracings. Clean copy.
|
Editorial Reviews
|
Product Description
A family's worst nightmare ... On a June night in 2002, Salt Lake City teenager Elizabeth Smart was abducted at knifepoint from her own bedroom. For months afterward her distraught family prayed for her safe return while a massive manhunt was undertaken. Then, in March of the following year, Elizabeth Smart was discovered alive just a few miles from her home, the prisoner of a man who believed himself the Messiah and his loyal, complacent wife. What happened to Elizabeth during her nine months in captivity is shocking; how she finally gained her freedom is remarkable. And now the story can be told -- including startling information about the controversial investigation and the heartbreaking torment endured by an extraordinary young survivor.
|
Customer Reviews
|
Interesting
Rating  (4)
Date: 2005-09-20
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Living in Utah makes this event too close for comfort which compelled me to read this book. This author's perspective was very interesting and exciting. I found the book to be full of interesting facts some of which I had not heard or read before. It also has reminded me that our society had changed in a frightening direction when we are no longer safe in our own homes.
|
|
MY HEART TREMBLED
Rating  (5)
Date: 2005-08-17
7 out of 12 customers found this reveiw helpful
My hand trembled with each and every page I read.
With each word my mind went back to when I was kidnapped, beaten, tortured and raped in Moscow in January of 1992 by early Al qeada operatives.
Maggie, you have written a spine chilling account of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and rescue.
I applaud you for your writing skills.
-Yvonne Bornstein, Author, Eleven Days Of Hell- My True Story Of Kidnapping, Terror, Torture and Historic FBI and KGB Rescue
|
|
Boring!!!
Rating  (1)
Date: 2004-11-26
11 out of 17 customers found this reveiw helpful
When i got this book i expected it to tell me what exactly happened to elizabeth whilst she was captured, it told me pretty much nothing!! and left me a lot of questions!! all i got what how they tried to get her back and the way they lived on the streets. i had to guess by the insinuations that there had been sexual abuse, but im not sure what else! i assumed that the author researched and interviewed her and was going to tell us things we didnt know but it didnt! maybe that was the intention of the book, as the title shouldve told me that but everything it did tell me was everything the media pretty much told us. i would love to know why she didnt run, other than speculations and what all happened to her when she was gone. if you want to know media info then i suppose this book is good but if u are trying to find out what happened to her you'll be very dissapointed!it was written well though.
|
|
Amazing Story & Miracle
Rating  (3)
Date: 2004-08-01
7 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
I read part of this book when the hardcover version first came out. What a horrific experience for that family and how miraculous that they had a happy ending!! I still remember where I was when I heard that she had been found. I didn't read the whole book because it was too disturbing and I get nightmares easily. It really bothers me when people criticize the family for writing a book and allowing it to be put into a movie. Why shouldn't they share their miracle? I would! Not a whole lot of children/teens come back alive when they are kidnapped and so I think the family are doing right to share their story. I'm sure that it will help other families to have hope. And what is the family doing now? They are presently helping another family who has a missing family member! So many others would want to just forget about it, but instead they are out there trying to help and comfort another family. That's really quite commendable. I did notice when I read what I read, that they do include a bit of information about their belief system. Although I don't agree with their theology at all, I do believe that they have every right to talk about it in their book. All of us would do that if we were in the same situation. They were sharing how they got through the ordeal and of course their faith is going to be mentioned. I was certainly praying too and I even hung light blue ribbons (her favourite colour) in a few places. There are so few miracles in the news nowadays and I'm glad that the Smarts are sharing their story. I really think the point of the book is how good is coming out of such a terrible tragedy.
|
|
Boring
Rating (3)
Date: 2004-02-28
5 out of 14 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a rather boring book...I picked it up after a friend of mine recommended it to me. Although it only took 2-3 to read it, it was boring. It took all I had to actually get through it. The writing is easy enough-but just in a vocabulary and level sense. My younger sisters and brother could read it with no problems. It's just that there's no real good flow.What Elizabeth experienced was harrowing, and one of the reason why she's home is because of all the media coverage...
|
|
|
|
|