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Therefore, when I saw this book on a used bookshelf at the local bookstore, I picked it up for next to nothing. I think what is good for Anderson Cooper is good for the rest of us. I don't see it like that at all. The things he writes about are informative and you want to know more, but at the same time, you are also always aware of that part of you that says.Thank God that is somewhere else and not here. Katrina showed us all that's not true. Other than the fact that he was a seemingly intelligent, honest and likeable regular on CNN, I didn't know anything else about this man.
I hope he is paid well (not just monetarily speaking either) for the services, the risks, and his talented gifts that he shares, because after all, we can't even begin to fix things that we don't know are broken. I've always thought that A.C. was a likeable, tell-it-like-it-is, news anchor. Here, you grow up believing there's a safety net, that things can never completely fall apart.
There's a different level of expectation. You take it for granted that governments don't work, that people are on their own. We can't take care of our own. Anderson Cooper lets us know what's broken.
Cooper conveys the idea that he has built a great career on the misery of others. You are secure reading from your overstuffed armchair, or your bubbly bathtub, or your warm bed, until he writes about his experiences while covering Hurricane Katrina. The world can break apart in our own backyard, and when it does many of us will simply fall off." Talk about a dispatch from the edge.At one point in this memoir, A. I watch, AC360 often, and enjoy the Planets in Peril programs, too.
For all the money spent on homeland security, all the preparations that have allegedly been made, we are not ready, not even for a disaster we know is coming. Then he writes this on page 141."In Sri Lanka, in Niger, you never assume anyone will help. After reading this book, I find him even more attractive as a human being than I ever did as just another television personality.Anderson Cooper has been all over the world and has covered many wars and natural disasters. Wait, that is here.
People look at me as if to consider whether my grief is healthy. He can tell a story and not be too invasive. So often when I try and tell someone that every day.
What it means that they are part of every day of your life.His life's adversities also give him an edge as a journalist. He can write the story and get to the core emotions behind it because of what he has gone through. He has the compassion and care for those he interviews.
This book does something that I have never seen. But Anderson Cooper articulates what it means to have lost someone and carry them with you. There is so much feeling behind every word on the page.This book is amazing on so many levels.
every moment I think about my son who died it gets lost in translation. Shouldn't I have moved on by now.
I would recommend that anybody and everybody read this book. His life story and family tragedies are cleverly interwoven into the disasters he has seen across the planet. Anderson Coopers Book Distpatches From the Edge kept me wanting to read more, which is a tough task for a biography. The things that he has seen deserve to be shared, and the way in which he presents them captures the reader.
It's a book that really makes you see the other side of the world. In fact, I find it annoying how the general public turn him into a celebrity with all the gossip. Read it and feel it in your heart. War zone, tsunami, hurricane they are just phrases i heard on television.
I wanted to read at first just like everbody else, I am curious about Anderson Cooper, the pretty boy, the Vanderbilt heir, the hottest anchor man on television. Againg, not just AC's, but everybody he writes about. I have just finished the book on a 13-hour long flight, have wanted to read this book since it first came out, but afraid people would be laughing at me because i am reading some celebrity memoir. Finally, it appears to be on the bookshelve as i was wondering in the bookstore. Why can't we see him as a real writer and a real journalist. the experience as a journalist is what I am really into in this book.
A book that tells you no BS but the true feeling in one's heart. The television always make it seem alright because there are people to help one another, the goverment will ensure everybody is ok, and that was I believe in, espeically being the citizen of United States of America. Not just AC's feelings, but the people he met along the way. Sometimes I wish I never have to feel the same way as they do, but most of the times, I wish there is something I can do for them so they don't have to be angry, scared, or sad anymore. The part about his family is very touching, but I feel AC writes in a way that his apologizing for his brother's death, and he just miss his dad too much. Tears almost drop for several times while I was reading this book. Travelling alone then gave me a space to read without judgements.
The book vividly record the danger, the anger, and the helplessness in one's heart. It's not that I don't enjoy reading it, but I think one should keep the most dearing and initimate memory to him/herself, and only share with the love ones. But by the end of this book, all these curiosity doesn't seem to matter anymore. Very good writing indeed, but if he writes another book, I wouldn't want read about it anymore.
He often muses that his star has risen with the world's body count, that his fame is based on showing the suffering of thousands around the globe. Anderson Cooper's experiences as a journalist in some of the world's most gruesome places are told against a background of his own personal loss and sadness. The graphic descriptions of misery are hard to read, but they are somewhat balanced by his genuine concern for those he writes about. He's a passionate professional, but also seems vulnerable and haunted by his grief. He writes about the horrors of Sri Lanka after the tsunami, war-torn Iraq and Sarajevo, the famine in Niger, and New Orleans after Katrina. In each ghastly place, painful memories are triggered of his father's early death and his brother's suicide.He writes in the present tense with a sense of immediacy, urgency, and intimacy.
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