Three Cups of Tea (Playaway Adult Nonfiction) by Greg Mortenson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Three Cups of Tea (Playaway Adult Nonfiction)
Book Review: a book for all people
Summary: 5 Stars
especially for second generation pakistani's living in UK. amongst the confusion of who we are, a story about listening and following your heart. 'only when it is dark, can you see the stars'. Book Review: Inspirational insight
Summary: 5 Stars
Read a review of this book in The Week magazine and just had to get it. Once Amazon delivered it could not put it down. Mortenson shows a very different side of culture in the North West frontier region of Pakistan. It shows a region desperately trying to reach out but still retain its values. His work building schools and concentrating on empowwering the girls/women of the region is crucial in its small way of bringing peace and stability to a region where the Saudi wahhabism sect of Islam is intent on producing extremist cannon fodder. My only small critiscm of the book is why did it stop at Greg finding the leader in Afghanistan. I want to know what happened next?
Or is there a sequel to come?....When is it being printed?
Book Review: A fabulous book
Summary: 5 Stars
Inspirational, articulate and an incredible story. I loved this book from beginning to end and would recommend it to anyone - it should be a curriculum book for secondary school. Buy it - you won't be disappointed.Book Review: Interesting and good hearted.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a very readable book, peppered with a lot of good humour and sound points about the value of education to impoverished communities so that they may improve their circumstances, and to have knowledge with which to make better judgments about the world. The narrative tells a great deal about the geographic splendour of the region, the nature and diversity of the people, and gives a fair degree of insight into Greg Mortenson's character and motivation.
Why those who have benefited from CAI funding and intervention were not doing this for themselves, already, is something of a mystery. The lack of government funding was mentioned. But given that all the villages had the skills to raise stone buildings as a matter of course, and although life was lived at a subsistence level, for the most part, and it is claimed that a great deal of enthusiasm existed for education, it was not clear why a basic education was so difficult to make available, until someone else chose to make it available.
That nag aside, it has to be acknowledged that, for less than the price of 6 JDAM bombs dropped, which did little more than smartly pound Afghani gravel into dust, funding for the CAI is the smarter way to go.
Book Review: Deserves Five Stars
Summary: 5 Stars
At the time of writing this review, the book has 5 stars. Greg deserves the stars for his bravery, let alone the content. I really enjoyed this book. It's well written, exciting and more importantly a massive eye-opener.