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Review Date: 1/13/2011
While there is limited information about the actual lives of these amazing twins, the author does a great job of placing them into a historically accurate environment and inventing a likely account of their interesting lives. He deals with all of the physical and emotional challenges that Chang and Eng must have faced during their unique lives.
Review Date: 5/26/2011
While this book doesn't specifically focus on training dogs, it's the best dog training book I've ever read. I always give a copy of it to my friends who are getting puppies. (It's also a great book for training husbands!)
Review Date: 6/16/2010
Helpful Score: 3
This is a book you will not soon forget. My heart ached for the author who has obviously lived with lifelong scars from his experiences. I still wonder how he is doing today.
Review Date: 6/16/2010
Helpful Score: 1
From Publishers Weekly: "..... By delving deeply into the specific lives of 10 sets of twins, one set of triplets and a set of quadruplets, Segal operates less as a scientist and more as a perceptive listener. She tells about twins raised apart, like Gerry and Mark, who both became firefighters; when they met at age 31, says Gerry, "we were so alike, there was no need to get acquainted." Not so for Oskar, one of half-Jewish identical twins, a Catholic Hitler Youth member in Nazi Germany while his twin, Jack, spent his childhood as a Jew in Trinidad. The author consistently conveys empathy for the uncommon problems of her subjects, such as Agnes and Audrey, identical sisters whose lives changed dramatically when Audrey underwent a sex change operation......"
I found this book fascinating!
I found this book fascinating!
Review Date: 5/26/2011
A fascinating account of growing up in Botswana with a unique and interesting family. I love memoirs, and enjoyed reading this one.
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