On 10 June , eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. On 26 August , Dugard, her daughters, and Phillip Craig Garrido appeared in the office of her kidnapper's parole officer in California.
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After she became a mom herself, Dugard knew she could never leave her daughters behind, even if that meant a lifetime in captivity. On August 26, , Phillip Garrido showed up for a meeting with his parole officer; he brought Dugard, her two daughters, and Nancy with him. After eighteen years without saying her own name, Dugard revealed her identity to the authorities. Watch videos of your favorite authors. Listen to our Podcasts on SoundCloud. Check out the latest reading group guides. Join us on Facebook! Visit our channel on YouTube. Children's Bolgna Rights Guide Sign up for the latest news on authors, books, events, video and more.
The Dark Pages - the home of crooks and villains, mobsters and terrorists, spies and private eyes. See More New Releases. It was the last her family and friends saw of her for over eighteen years. On 26 August , Dugard, her daughters, and Phillip Craig Garrido appeared in the office of her kidnapper's parole officer in California. Bill goes to Chile; Kate and Patricia go sailing; Patricia is washed overboard and drowned. Kate's boat capsizes and, when she recovers consciousness ashore, she believed to be Patricia is told that Bill is returning from Chile.
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Bette Davis' movies I've seen. Share this Rating Title: A Stolen Life 7. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 1 Oscar. Learn more More Like This. Payment on Demand The film is about divorce but with flashbacks as to why divorce occurs. In This Our Life I guess because I am definately going to hug my children a little tighter and make sure I remember the promises I make to them after reading this book. I guess because I am only few years older than Jaycee I can't help but think of all that has happened in my life during the last 18 years.
This book although it was a quick read was by no means an easy read. Jaycee is an amazing young women. At one point in the book she describes herself as a coward but in my oppinion she is anything but. She is one bravest women I can think of. After reading her story I was able to see just how much of a psycological hold her abducters had over her. Thier is so much I want to say about this book but I just can't wrap my mind around it all at this time so I will be writting more as I sort through everything.
I'm so angry at the system for failing her. I can't help but feel like not only was she victimized by her captors but by the system who was put in place to protect her all of us really. I can understand missing her on one or even two of the visits but over eighteen years is just ridiculous. Probation officers came to that house over sixty times during her captivity why in all those times did'nt they just one check the backyard.
The neighbor even called the cops to report that children where living in tents in the backyard. When the sherrif came to ivestigate he never bothered to go into the backyard, once again I am left wondering WHY. Jaycee's story has definately made me loose faith in the so called system. I look at my three little girls and feel all the more need to protect them.
I'm so proud of Jaycee for surviving not only physically but mentally to. I really liked the part about the reunification process. I honestly was very naive about what reuniting her with her family would entail. I think of all she lost during those eighteen years and its mindblowing. I want to thank her therapist for doing such a wonderful job with helping her.
I do wish she would have talked a little more about how her daughters felt when they found out everything but I do understand her need to protect them. I can't wait to see her build her foundation and rebuild her life. Jun 30, Eva Leger rated it liked it Shelves: I, along with the rest of the world, waited for this book. And I have to say I'm disappointed.
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According to the info I found on line Dugard did indeed have "help" writing this book. What kind of help I don't know because it's obvious most of us couldn't tell when reading A Stolen Life. Apparently, a Rebecca Bailey , who is a "post-trauma family reunification specialist" is who helped with this book. I tried not to be too hard on the writing while reading because of who the author I, along with the rest of the world, waited for this book.
I tried not to be too hard on the writing while reading because of who the author is and what she went through. She didn't go to school like she would have had she not been kidnapped, etc. The story isn't lacking. The story is what happened to Dugard. That can't be "lacking" if it's the truth.
I believe it is. But the writing is severely lacking and there's only so much 'looking past' one can do. The failed chances to rescue Dugard? But some of the "chances" the police "had" weren't really chances. I'm willing to bet women were murdered and kidnapped in that town also, does that mean it was Garrido or that he should have been searched? That's not a missing "chance".
The police going to Garrido's and not inspecting his yard? Garrido slipping through the cracks of probation and parole? Believe me, I blame the police for their failures in this and everything else they fail at. I believe in blame being squarely placed.
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But I can't believe in that and then place blame where it doesn't belong. One very large missed chance is when a neighbor of Garrido's actually called to report children living in tents in Garrido's backyard. The police deputy who reported apparently talked to Garrido at the front door and left without checking the backyard. That, my friends, is a missed chance and that alone is absolutely horrendous. That alone shows how much society wants to protect the criminal and not the victim s. But oh, the police "apologized".
I'm sorry that you were raped, abused, impregnated, withheld from your family, friends, life in general and that we 'missed the chance' to protect you and save you. I'm, uh, really sorry about that. I hope she said that to the bastards. In paramedics responded to Garrido's because of a child with a shoulder injury from a swimming accident. Nevermind that Garrido shouldn't have had children on his property.
Probation and Parole was never notified. Oh, those were his brothers kids! It ain't me in trouble. Another note I made while reading: This is just a note to parents and caregivers who tend to think stuff like this doesn't happen. Dugard relates in here how Garrido and his wife would drive to school playgrounds and parks and videotape little girls.
The wife would even talk to them at times, get them to do splits and to sit with their legs apart so Garrido could get "good" shots. She even had a whole cut out of one of her purses for a video camera. That shit is REAL scary. None of these little girls were "hurt" in the usual sense but I know I don't want some pervert taking advantage of my daughters innocence to get her to sit with her legs open and then use that recorded video for his own disgusting, perverted pleasure.
Basically, the story here is a unique one but it's told in a way that's sort of aggravating, most likely because of her lack of early education. I do hope this was cathartic for her and I hope she lives a wonderful life, her and her entire family. I hope Garrido, his disgusting p. Oct 07, Huma Rashid rated it it was ok. I was going to give this book a 4 star rating and be done with it.
Anything else felt douchey. How could you give a book about a courageous girl who kept going and kept it together and raised two girls while in an unimaginably horrible situation anything LESS than 4 stars? I was doing it out of pity and sympathy. The story of Jaycee Dugard is so horrifying and tragic that I wanted to give the book 4 st I was going to give this book a 4 star rating and be done with it. The story of Jaycee Dugard is so horrifying and tragic that I wanted to give the book 4 stars just for that. I couldn't bear to give it 5 stars, putting it right up there with the Count of Monte Cristo and White Teeth and the others.
I thought 4 was more than fair as a pity vote. And then I thought that going about it that way just wasn't fair. I was treating this book differently because the subject was so horrible and frightening - like giving any and every book about the Holocaust a 4 or 5 just because the Holocaust was so tragic. So this is my honest rating. A 1 star rating. After I wrote this review, when I was looking it over for the final time before submitting, I boosted it to a 2-star rating out of pity.
The book flops around a lot. To her credit, Jaycee acknowledges this in the beginning and says it was all a part of her process. I have no quarrel with that whatsoever, but as a reader experiencing a book for the first time, it's distracting and cconfusing. The book is also rambling, as if it could have benefited from a good editor.
I do not enjoy rambling books. As for the writing style itself I hate myself for saying this , it's juvenile and stilted. She never had a chance to continue her schooling. But that doesn't change the writing style of the book; it just explains it. A co-writer or ghost-writer could have fixed this nicely, but I bet writing this was part of Jaycee's healing process, so again, it's understandable. I know I come off as heartless.
I know I sound like a terrible person. But I also felt pretty terrible giving this book a 4 star rating ONLY because I felt so sorry for the author and was so horrified by everything she had to endure at the hands of those monsters. View all 13 comments. Aug 22, Kathy rated it it was amazing. The five stars are not for the literary value of this book, but for the honest telling of what these 18 stolen years were like for Jaycee Dugard.
I am glad she allowed us to read this story in her own words, and not some smooth, glossy version of her story written by a ghost writer. The simple language enhanced this book in my opinion. You really felt the presence of that young girl reliving her story. This is a remarkable young lady with more strength than I can imagine ever having.
I feel we e The five stars are not for the literary value of this book, but for the honest telling of what these 18 stolen years were like for Jaycee Dugard. I feel we each owe it to her to read her story. For 18 years she was not able to honestly express what she was thinking and what she was feeling. This is her way of saying I exist, this is who I am, and I have no reason to be ashamed. I also support her desire to not let her abductor get away with his belief that the world would never know the details of what he did.
This book is a way to help give Jaycee back her life and her voice. In this country that does not honor its children, allows pedophiles to revictimize again and again, and then turns them free to victimize again, we owe the vicitms the respect of listening to their story. The number of times that probation officers actually saw young girls in the home of this known sex offender and never pursued verifying who they were and why there were there is beyond belief, and yet it is true. When are we as a country going to stand up for our children.
I would say this book would be too difficult to read for parents whose children who are still under 18 years of age. Apr 20, Mandy rated it it was amazing. I read this book in one day.
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I was captured by Jaycee's words and her story. She endured so much and was such a brave woman.
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I probably would have given up, but she pressed on and loved to tell a tale that no one could even think to write for fiction! View all 6 comments.
Feb 02, Suzanne rated it it was amazing Shelves: I haven't read a memoir of this kind before. They're so hard to read. This need not be a literary review but a review of this woman's story, and I've rated it a full 5 stars. Like most of us I'd heard about this over the years, but didn't consider reading her memoir until I stumbled across it in a second hand bookshop just last week. Jaycee Dugard has done an amazing job telling us her story. It would have been tremendously hard to do.
Right from the start she did tell us it will be a bit disjoin I haven't read a memoir of this kind before. Right from the start she did tell us it will be a bit disjointed and she might go off onto different tangents, but this is to be expected and I didn't mind her writing style at all. She's done so well for not having attended school since the age of I love that she loved to write as she was held captive and always had a love for reading. She's a gracious and forgiving lady, and the fact that she's emerged this way is outstanding.
She has formed an organisation to help people deal with events such as she's experienced, and anyone receiving help from her will be a lucky person, as she seems to have an amazing character after her horrific life circumstances. I sincerely hope Jaycee Dugard is proud of her work in telling her story.
View all 8 comments. Although written by a woman with limited education due to her eighteen years in captivity after a terrifying abduction aged just eleven, this an intriguing memoir covering the years of her confinement and her re introduction into society. For a book covering such a long period of time I was surprised this book wasn't longer, but having said that I enjoyed - for want of a better phrase - the book and thought it was generally well told.
A follow up to this memoir would be welcomed to find out more Although written by a woman with limited education due to her eighteen years in captivity after a terrifying abduction aged just eleven, this an intriguing memoir covering the years of her confinement and her re introduction into society. A follow up to this memoir would be welcomed to find out more of what has become since of the brave Jaycee and her two daughters. Aug 06, Hinch rated it really liked it. A Memoir, by Jaycee Dugard, is a disturbing, yet heartwarming personal narrative of the author's abduction, at age 11, and her subsequent 18 year captivity in the backyard of Phillip and Nancy Garrido.
I listened to the audio version of the book, which was read by Jaycee. The prose is simple and direct, yet surprisingly eloquent, and her personal narration adds further emotion to an already poignant story. The book does not attempt to provide an objective or journalistic account of A Stolen Life: The book does not attempt to provide an objective or journalistic account of the events surrounding the captivity. This is a personal story, and the focus is primarily on Jaycee's remembered experience. There is scant information regarding the physicality of her environment, or even the logistics of her day to day experience; the writing instead reflects the journey of a young girl who was forced to withdraw from the world.
It is possible that this inward and subjective focus has affected the accuracy of recollected detail. For example, in the book we are told that during the early years of her captivity, Phillip was returned to federal prison for approximately 1 month for parole violation, when in actuality, it was closer to 5 months. It should come as no surprise that Jaycee was subjected to extensive emotional and psychological disturbance. The book is clearly the work of a person who, through therapy, is slowly finding the freedom, and the strength, to reassert herself. In fact, I suspect the writing of the book formed a significant role in the recovery process - and it is probable that the composition of the narrative has been decidedly influenced by an attempt to make sense of past experiences.
The book is a fascinating account, not just for what is explicitly revealed, but also for what is implied, and omitted. For example, Jaycee's journal entries identifying top 10 "wishes" and "favourites" almost exclusively list experiences involving animals and open spaces, no doubt signifying her diminished human contact, and her desire to escape the claustrophobia of her captivity. In a similar vain, large tracts of the book focus on the many pets she kept over the years.
On the surface, some readers may find these passages boring and mundane - and to a degree, they are - but such thinking also misses the point, for these passages offer a unique glimpse at how Jaycee strived to keep her sanity and identity in a world where her mind and body were totally dominated. The story unfolds in three rather distinct phases. The first, covering her abduction, and the initial years of captivity, is the most explicitly disturbing. At only age 11, we learn of the deep psychological wounds inflicted on Jaycee - separated from her family, handcuffed and isolated in a shed, and repeatedly raped by Phillip during drug-fuelled "runs" that would sometimes last for days on end.
The second phase, which commences with the birth of her second child, covers the remainder of her captivity. It is during this period that Phillip and Nancy partially assimilate Jaycee and her children into their pseudo family. Jaycee begins to work as a graphic designer for Phillip's printing business, and she is occasionally permitted to leave the house to go thrift store shopping with Nancy. There is no mention of continued sexual abuse, but Jaycee is still the victim of Phillip's psychological domination, deteriorating mental condition, and the target of his delusional religious notions.
If you put the first half of the book and obvious oddities aside - such as Jaycee living in a tent in the backyard, and using a bucket for a toilet - you could almost be forgiven for thinking that sections of this second phase were not penned by an abused captive, but rather the stereotypical teenager - annoyed that she cannot drive, frustrated that she is under appreciated, angry that her "dad" is lazy, and resentful of her lack of freedom.
Again, the fact that Jaycee elects to express this side of her experience is in itself informative, not to mention that this teenage angst was expressed whilst Jaycee was actually in her twenties. The third phase of the book focuses on Jaycee's post-release therapy and recovery, and her transition back into society.
The text is steep in self-help language, and flush with affirmations of growing confidence. This phase of the story provides Jaycee with an opportunity to mark out her own aspirations and to sketch her own identity apart from the psychological control of her past. I am giving this book 4 stars out of 5. There are those that will undoubtedly see this as a slight against Jaycee, and a disrespect for the injustice she experienced. However, I do not consider past trauma or personal suffering as guarantors of perfect writing.
Jaycee declares in the introduction that her account may seem confusing, or disordered, and while I do not consider it such, she does jump from memory to memory, at the expense of providing an well edited and balanced account. We learn little of the Garrido's, and less of the children; the environment in which they live is barely explored. Even short news articles from the period offer revelations that rival those presented in the book. For example I've read of a witness who saw Jaycee at a gas station, only a couple of years after her disappearance, standing motionless, staring at a "missing persons" picture of herself - presumably just one of the many significant moments omitted from the book.
Though in many way, we should not be surprised: I guess this is just another of the many rights that were so inhumanely stolen from her life the day she was taken away. Jul 16, Jae rated it liked it Shelves: When Jaycee Dugard was first found, my fascination with her case originally grew out of a desire to better understand another famous kidnapping victim who had been in a somewhat similar situation: But I have stayed interested for one major reason: Dugard has been incredibly adept at keeping control over her own story and maintaining her agency at all times.
This book can be seen as the culmination of those efforts, since Ms. Dugard has written her own book about her own exp When Jaycee Dugard was first found, my fascination with her case originally grew out of a desire to better understand another famous kidnapping victim who had been in a somewhat similar situation: Dugard has written her own book about her own experiences rather than letting journalists write them or worse: Don't read it out of prurient interest, in other words.
If you know anything about what was said in the media when she was found, there's probably nothing about the details of her captivity that will surprise you anyway. The actual remarkable part is Ms. Dugard's agency, which is all over this book. No one made her write it; she decided to. No one told her which experiences to share and which ones to keep private; that was her decision.
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And all of the reflections on her experiences are in her own voice, because she wrote every word herself. How can you not appreciate this book? Just stop for a second and think about yourself being in her situation. How can anyone survive being captive from age 11 for 18 years? I wanted to rate this book with 5 stars. But that wouldn't be honest, it would be out of sympathy. You really feel like a child wrote this book, but maybe this was the intention, because her formal education stopped when she was only 11 years old.
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The story jumps around a lot. I found it unnecessary when I read about all thos How can you not appreciate this book? I found it unnecessary when I read about all those pets she had and journey entries. I just don't know… I expected to feel her pain, rage, anger through reading this book. But I didn't, she made it too mellow. People that did this to her are disgusting and they don't deserve a nice word, but you don't get this feeling while reading this book. View all 4 comments.