Important History

I think books like this are important to show people that atrocities still happen in modern times. If enough people were aware of such things, maybe in the future they would say "don't let there be another (Sudan, Rwanda, etc.)"

This book shows you what it was like to be a refugee by providing stories from 3 survivors. There are cases of surprising kindness and pointless cruelty, and many small details that caused me to imagine myself in the refugees' situations. While there is no actual discussion of the "history", I feel that the stories do a fairly good job giving the overall picture of the situation in Southern Sudan at that time.

I only had a couple of minor problems with the book. The story switched among the accounts of the 3 boys frequently, and this combined with my broken up listening during commutes and the fact that the boys' paths sometimes intersected, made it hard for me to distinguish between the three as individuals, even though each had their own narrator. One of the narrators has a strong African accent, which some people might have trouble understanding, but I felt it really added to the listening experience. One of the American narrators (at least on my audio device) made a sharp whistling noise every time he pronounced an "s".

Other audible books with stories of people surviving and escaping horrible situations include Long Way Gone about Sierra Leone and Nothing to Envy about North Korea. Going a little further back in history is The Rape of Nanking, but that one has a lot more victim stories than survivors, so it's really hard to stomach.

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Amazing book!

Amazing and touching story highly recommend, just remember that the book is told from the point of view of 3 characters and it switches and can become kind of confusing but overall it's great!

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Powerful Testament to the Human Spirit

Sudan’s Lost Boy stories are all extraordinary. They are all moving, fascinating, and powerful reminders of what human beings are sometimes forced to survive. And these three stories paint a rounded picture of the hardships that tens of thousands of Lost Boys endured.

They walked across deserts with little food or water, journeyed many hundreds of miles on foot, braved the depredations of lions and hyenas, which often ate their friends, escaped impressment in militias, and survived starvation, over and over and over again.

Please listen to this book and expand your notions of what it means to be human, and add to your reading list Dave Egger’s even more extraordinary true tale in novelized form, What is the What.

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what's happening in the rest of the world

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This should be required reading for all high school students. We all need to wake up and realize the world is not so big that we can hide under our flag forever. Terrorism is a growing menace.

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Makes you think about the world differently.

This book is a collection of stories that together provide insight into the terrible situation in Sudan. It is a little difficult to keep everybody straight at first, but the different narrators help with that after a while.

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Painful

It is such a horrific story of real tragedy that it was painful to listen to. It could have been the best book written, but the reality of the events were very disturbing.

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Definitely NOT uplifting

Well ... I didn't expect this book to be uplifting, and it wasn't. It was also exceptionally slow. Nevertheless, it's a story that needed to be told, and I am glad I listened to it. However, the narrator can enhance the book or make it torture to listen to. In this case, one of the several narrators was excruciating to listen to. The narrator who reads the story of one of the boys, Benson, has a whining nasal drawl while at the same time sounding as though he has a mouthful of marbles. Truly insufferable after the first hour or so.

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why not same reader from Disturbed In Their Nests?

I just finished Disturbed In Their Nests and loved their story and the narrator's voice. I just started this audiobook eager to learn more about their life story, but the narrator is so hard to listen to...his voice just.....it's so off.

Life changing

Wow I’m proud of these men, and the children that have endured so much pain

TRUE

Miraculous store of Children’s resilience faced with pure evil. Stimulating and educational. A HEADS up for America. Still going on today.