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I Get It..

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2019

I was fortunate to have met Anderson Cooper last week. Before we met I did my due diligence about his family and life.
I think Cooper is an old soul much wiser than his years. This book and Anderson Cooper is the real deal. He eloquently put to print the atrocities he's witnessed in his never ending pursuit of "what really happened". I'm sure there are thousands of first responders, soldiers and victims that would like to put on paper what they've seen, witnessed and felt but you'd be hard pressed to put that into words like Mr. Cooper has done. Myself included. Don't put the pen done young man. Thanks for all you have done and I for one look forward to your future prose. Les French

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Rosemary

Love Anderson Cooper

Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2014

Love Anderson Cooper, though was a little unimpressed with this memoir. I think I liked him more before I read this book. I am fascinated with his back story as I have read books by his mother, and I wish he would have included more of his youth. He is a very talented individual altogether and I think his next memoir will be more interesting.

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Stephen G. Floyd

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Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2013

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The vendor was fine, book in good, new shape, came quickly, didn't cost much. However, it was so wordy I found it hard to follow. The points were not clearly drawn and needs a very serious, critical re-write; perhaps several re-writes. I did not finish it all. Sorry.

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GAndrea

Expected much more

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2017

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Not what I expected to be. I just read half the book and discrded. Just did not hanged me.

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Katie

Did not meet expectations

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2013

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I did not care for this book. It did not meet my expectations. Failed to keep my interest throughout the book.

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T. S. Hodgkinson

a bit like looking forward to a mars bar on the summit, but getting an empty wrapper

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2008

The most striking thing about this book is how jaded the author appears about his "stories". Surely that colors all reporting and transforms all horrors covered into soundbites for the news-tainment culture that prevails today. So the book gives the strong impression of merely scraping the surface.

While the sometimes inappropriate morbid humor developed in such extreme situations is realistic (as I can testify having grown up in a war zone), it does convince me that the author does get touched by what he has reported on. Shame that this does not come through in his personal memoirs.

Closing the book, my parting thoughts are discomfort at the role today's news media plays, hope that the writing of the book has proven cathartic for the author in dealing with his own personal loss, disappointment at just skimming the surface of the author's experiences and feelings on being confronted with and reporting on some of humanity's ugliest moments in the past few years.

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Dispatches from the Edge

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2006

I sympathized with him on the book. I felt that there was too much alternating from one country to the next to then a family rememberance. I did not think the book was written well. While reading the book, yes you want to go to the next chapter, but then towards the last 45 pages it is like well we pretty much know all about all of that, (those of us that follow the news) and it is not a surprise. I truly felt that he had to present this book to the public in order to tell his story and heal. There is nothing wrong with this, however, it was very emotional & intimate & confusion more than I ever expected.

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Prin

Although a fan of Cooper, can't recommend this book

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2006

Save your money and read the excerpt in Vanity F. magazine. I really wanted to like this book as I am a fan of Mr. Cooper's style of reporting. In this book he reports on various wars he happened to be front and center. They seem to run in to each other and as hard as I tried to be engaged in the stories I found the writing style too clinical. Mr. Cooper does not discuss his personal life only the effects of his father's death and his brother's suicide. He tries, unsuccessfully to intergrate those deaths into the stories of death that war causes. If one is going to write a biography one should discuss one's life and address some of the questions circulating (i.e his homosexuality). Hopefully, Mr. Cooper will one day write a serious autobiography. This isn't it. The excerpt in Vanity F. sums up the book and is all you really need.

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J. Kaplan

disappointed

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2006

I found this uninteresting and boring. He dwells on the suicide of his brother throughout the whole book. enough already, Anderson! Let him go. The rest of the book is depressing enough. Now I know why I left CNN for Fox!

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Jeane Langevin

Dispatches dull and boring

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2007

As much as I like Anderson Cooper as a correspondent, his book was quite difficult to plod through - dull and boring.

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