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Summary: VICTIM LIVES WILLINGLY IN BOX
Review: This is the most amazing True Crime book I have ever read. The main character actually kidnaps a young woman with his young wife and baby in the car. The victim, Colleen, is immediately put into a box, and lives there 24 hours a day for months. She is kept as a sex and torture slave. After she is totally brainwashed, she continues to stay with this deranged couple and is free to work and walk around the neighborhood.One would wonder how this could be possible, and yet from the months and months of constant deprivation, you come to depend on your captor for simple survival. This book was shocking beyond belief and a very good read. Thank you
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Summary: Average
Review: This was a very interesting book, but pretty standard fair for this class of book. The one thing I kept asking myself was why didn't she leave, the explanation of this issue in the book did not convince me. Overall a well written book that is easy to fly through.
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Summary: Unimaginable...
Review: true story about seven years in captivity full of deprevation, sexual abuse and torture. Colleen Stan is an amazingly strong person to be able to live through her ordeal at the hands of Cameron Hooker. This book starts with her abduction while hitch hiking, ironically she refused a few rides because she felt unsure about them. Along comes they typical American family and she accepts their offer of a ride.The story continues back and forth between her captivity and the investigation/trial after her escape. While reading the chapters about Colleen you often wonder why she didn't try to escape when she was free of the box or when she was allowed certain freedoms. But, I guess that unless we were in her situation we would never be able to comprehend exactly what she was feeling. This book is a great read, however, it's extremely graphic at times and is not for the weak at heart.
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Summary: what can i say
Review: well, i read this book, and part of me felt sorry for the girl who lost 7 years of her life, but the other part says: she couldve left many times if she really wanted to. It's a good read, and you do get sucked into the story, and feel sorry for her for all that she was put through, but there was quite a few times when she had plenty of opportunity to save herself and she didnt. Its a story about a girl who was kidnapped, tortured , raped, and forced to live in a life of hell for 7 years. Its a sad but good story, and im thankful i have never had to suffer the way she did.
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Summary: Appalling and disturbing
Review: When I first began reading this book, I could not even fathom what was about to happen. 20 year old Colleen Stan was on her way to visit a friend when she decides to hitchhike from Oregon to California. A man and a woman with a baby stops and picks her up. Quickly they bound and blindfold her and take her to their home. Colleen is subjected to excruciating torture and confinement in the home of Cameron Hooker. By brainwashing Colleen, Cameron now has exactly what he wants.. a slave. For seven years Colleen lives with the Hooker's until one day Janice Hooker, Cameron's wife, informs Colleen of the truth.
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Summary: Appalling and disturbing
Review: When I first began reading this book, I could not even fathom what was about to happen. 20 year old Colleen Stan was on her way to visit a friend when she decides to hitchhike from Oregon to California. A man and a woman with a baby stops and picks her up. Quickly they bound and blindfold her and take her to their home. Colleen is subjected to excruciating torture and confinement in the home of Cameron Hooker. By brainwashing Colleen, Cameron now has exactly what he wants.. a slave. For seven years Colleen lives with the Hooker's until one day Janice Hooker, Cameron's wife, informs Colleen of the truth.
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Summary: This is a hard one to forget.
Review: Wow. I had thumbed through this book one day at a bookstore and could not forget the chilling details I had uncovered. 1 week later I was compelled to buy it. 2 days later I had finished it. This is a hard one to forget. I can not comprehend how any human being can be THIS sadistic. I have read MANY true crime books. This guy makes John Wayne Gacy look like a mercy killer. There aren't words to describe Cameron Hooker's twisted sexual hell he inflicted. Like many people have said, this story is hard to believe. I think part of the reason for this may be that it is just too horrible to accept. Upon completing this well written book, I was left with a bad taste in my mouth. I can't believe humans can reach this low.
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Summary: Very interesting
Review: Written by the Colleens Lawyer, it takes you through the whole crime and court case very thoroughly. Its hard to believe what Colleen went through as a victim but the book does a good job making you see it from all points of view. A great book for those readers who love the terror and love the pyschology behind the captors and the victims.
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