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| Author: Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer ISBN-10: 0767927567 ISBN-13: 9780767927567 Format: Hardcover Publication Year: 2007 Category: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, RELIGION In Carolyn Jessop's courageous and fascinating memoir, she exposes the bitter reality of life within the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the ultra-conservative and cult-like sect of Mormonism that exists in small towns in the deserts of Utah and Arizona. As a teenager, Jessop was forced into an arranged marriage with a much older man who already had three wives. As a woman, she was expected to be utterly docile at all times, while her eight children were brainwashed... | More | Average Ratings  from 34 reviewsPrice: $10.99 - $18.60 List Price: $24.95 |
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by: marysusedbookshelf  ) | Review created: 11/04/07 (updated: 04/23/08) |
| 19 out of 19 people found the following review helpful. I first heard about this book on Oprah and her story totally fascinated me on that show, so I had to go out and buy the book and I just finished reading this wonderful book. I could not lay it down until I had finished the whole book. I read it in less than 24 hrs and it was not a short book either. It was so detailed about Carolyn Jessop's life in Warren Jeff's world. This reveals what it really was like to be controlled by him. Women were property and only the men had any rights. At age 18, Carolyn became the fourth wife of Merril Jessop and he had his favorite wife which was NOT Carolyn. He was both cold and abusive and he allowed his favorite wife to have control of the other wives and their children. The children of the other wives were severely abused by her. She also found every little thing that the other wives did wrong and she would report it back to her husband and she delighted in doing it too. It is amazing that she was able to get a degree and slowly came out of the fog that she lived in and ESCAPED from her abusive husband and Warren Jeffs power hungry grip. If you are at all curious about Warren Jeffs, then this is a real eye-opener for sure. This gives you a front row seat to the real Warren Jeffs or maybe you are just curious about the life of the families under Warren Jeff's leadership. It is so detailed from the simple things to the marriage bed. Nothing is held back in this book. It reads like a novel because it absolutely seems impossible that anything that is real could be more frightening than what occured to this poor girl, but every word of it is absolutely true. I am adding this information as of 4-10-08 and I am totally shocked at all the things that have happened since I wrote this review. Everything I read in the book has been substantiated since the raid on the compound in Texas. The abuse, brainwashing, beatings, fear is supported in this book. | |
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by: robynelvscats  ) | Review created: 12/22/07 |
| 6 out of 6 people found the following review helpful. the book was fascinating reading. carolyn is bright, sensitive, and was seriously screwed up from her destructive and abusive childhood, and then in a marriage to a controlling idiot. in fact, the whole town she grew up in are irreversibly brainwashed. the mormon(LDS) church, is a far cry from the FLDS. my concern with carolyns writing is that she often leaves the reader thinking that the FLDS and the LDS church are "cousins", and very much alike in doctrine and practice. perhaps in her mind this is true, because she lived in an alien world, with other brainwashed people who are NOTHING like the mainstream LDS church, which is everywhere and full of intelligent, educated people who encourage questioning and free thinking. carolyn had none of those normal customs and virtues. the tale of the abuse she suffered at the hands of a childs most trusted care givers, being her parents, teachers, clergy and so-called government officials was too heinous and inhumane to be anything but the truth. while reading it, i often had to put the book away because her intolerable suffering confusion and bewilderment made me physically ill. i was haunted that the atrocities she and others endured and are still enduring right under our noses, and society allows it in the name of "freedom of religion". how this courageous lady escaped this diseased and disgraceful lifestyle, with 8 equally damaged children in tow, is incomprehensible to anyone living in a "normal", non-patriarchal time and place. carolyn describes her very real risk and possibly even lethal consequences of leaving her virtual prison in such a way that the reader can feel her panic and terror, while risking the loss of her children to this cult that masks itself as religion. if i sound like a religious bigot, read this book and decide for yourself. i applaud carolyn and the people who help to rescue those enmeshed in this dangerous prison of the mind and soul, and expose this cult for what it is still doing. carolyn is a survivor in every sense of the word. she wrote an eloquent, matter of fact story that will leave you breathless, engaged, and relieved at the long awaited freedom that this author finally has achieved for herself and her posterity. | |
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by: hawkeye_ta ) | Review created: 03/10/08 (updated: 03/16/08) |
| 3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful. At first,my attention was drawn to the intransing photograph on the cover of this book. The expression seemed to be shielding so much experience and struggle. But upon reading this true to life account of man's misinterpritation of women's role in the world, I was impacted in ways I never imagined possible. Carolyn Jessop shattered the mold she had been cast into, with little availability of "trustworthy" direction. Her story is so inspiring to everyone! Her self education, strength, sensitivity, and resourcefullness are enlightening stimulation for ANYONE who needs to make a change for the better in their lives. I cannot emphasize the thrilling emotional experience this story brings to everyone who reads it. I am not a scholar and do not have the vocabulary to express how meaningfully this writing is done. It is an uplifting, thrilling, and satisfying experience to read. I hope you will receive as much from it as I did! To me, it is the most moving book I have read in many, many years! It seems to make so many other books I have read seem so unimportant! | |
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by: mybearcollection ) | Review created: 06/03/08 |
| 1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful. I first saw an interview with Carolyn Jessop on a news network a few weeks ago. She impresssed me as a most articulate and well educated woman who had a story to tell.I had heard about the recent goings on with the FLDS in Texas and listening to her amazing account of life in the FLDS herself ,I felt compelled to learn more.The book seemed to be very scarce in my area. None of the bookstores had her book on the shelves as many people had obviously beaten me to them ,as they too found her interesting.I was very pleased that I was able to win this book on Ebay.I simply love this book and reccommend that everyone read it.This is a piece of American history in itself and people can learn a great deal about the culture of the FLDS. | |
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by: mdeckere64  ) | Review created: 05/15/08 |
| 1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful. Very interesting and mind opening book. I have been aware of the religious group for years and knew some of of their beliefs. I became more educated about the group after they moved into Texas. Carolyn Jessup is a brave women to have the courage to leave the group whether or not she had children. I can only imagine how most of the women feel since this is a group they were born into and not something they chose. Carolyn Jessop's story puts you into the group and is a good read. The book helps put you into the mindset of the women and explains how fanatical the religious group has become. | |
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by: lancekay ) | Review created: 03/06/08 |
| 1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful. I loved this book because Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer did a great job of telling Carolyn's story. She did not hold back, but told it all. It is the first book I have read about polygamy that I feel really lets us see what can go on in a very disfunctional family and religion. I highly recommend it and thank Carolyn Jessop for her courage to write it. | |
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by: patknudson5515 | Review created: 01/04/08 |
| 1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful. I could hardly put this book down, it was so fascinating! It had the kind of information about the FLDS that I've been curious about for so long. | |
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by: lovemydog96 | Review created: 04/07/08 |
| 1 out of 2 people found the following review helpful. I bought the book, Escape by Carolyn Jessop, because I live in Utah near Colorado City, and I was interested to learn about the life style of the FLDS people, that I often see in my community. The book was very enlightening. I learned much more from this book, than I ever imagined went on in the FLDS community. I applaud Carolyn for her great courage, and strength. | |
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by: pcb555 ) | Review created: 01/19/08 |
| 1 out of 2 people found the following review helpful. It's absolutely terrifying what this woman has been through. Her story is bewildering, scary, and triumphant. I couldn't put it down. | |
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by: bobbowen420  ) | Review created: 12/10/07 |
| 1 out of 2 people found the following review helpful. A great follow-up to "Under the Banner of Heaven". It will give you the day-to-day workings of the cult Mormonism. | |
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