The Escape Book: Can you escape this book?: 1 (Escape Book Series)

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As an adult I lived in St. George for three years between 2003 and 2006. I saw polygamists at Wal-Mart every time I went there. I was disturbed by my own reaction to them. Having lived all over the U.S. I was aware of how limited the perspective of people who stayed in one place their whole lives can be. Yet I still looked at them as "lesser" individuals. Because I was so disturbed by my own inner hateful response to this people, I decided to learn more about them. I met a woman who had written a book and was actively helping girls escape. She was selling her books at a booth at the county fair. She was putting her life on the line by speaking out and I was impressed. It was nice to have both hints and solutions provided, so I could choose how much guidance I needed. From cover to cover, The Adventure of the London Waterworks provided several hours of entertainment, with details that rewarded multiple reads. You could enlist the help of your own Watson, but the book seems best suited for a solo puzzling experience, particularly because certain puzzles require close inspection. I admire Ms. Jessop's courage, tenacity and survivor spirit. No one in love with being a victim could ever have the spark of hope of leaving that nightmare on earth, much less made a concrete plan under the circumstances with which she had to work. The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.

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I finished Escape a few days ago and felt a little confused about my feelings over this book. I even mentioned this in a phone conversation with another writer-friend. This is the most thorough detailing of this particular cultural and religious context to this sect's mode reality that I've ever come across. And not just for polygamy practices either. Because by its very nature of numbers, economics of both time and resources- it's half way to abuse by its dynamics of authority and hierarchy. It's life lived amongst vastly "unequal" members who are yet classified family. Having to escape an institution that has been sanctioned by the government to support prejudicial and extremist philosophies is not unusual in literature. After all, history has given us many real-life events to draw upon. But Pilkington’s novel, focusing on the “stolen generation” of Indigenous Australian children removed from their families by government agencies, is particularly unsettling because it explores a period of history not often discussed and because the escapees are children. K.R. Alexander is zelf groot fan van pretparken en vond deze passie een perfecte basis voor zijn volgende verhaal.The Escape Book is an intriguing ride across multiple mysteries, puzzles, and challenges readers will solve to escape. As an investigative journalist, you carry secrets that make you want to run for your life. You will find yourself in the labyrinth, and an escape is the only way to save yourself. You will solve clues, conundrums, anagrams, and optical illusions to escape the labyrinth. The Escape Book offers readers an unmatched escape room experience with no easy way out. The book will test your perseverance and ingenuity. Het verhaal las erg vlot. De schrijfstijl was beeldend en de hoofdstukken kort. Het was alsof ik ook in Escape was en ik kan je vertellen: dit is géén attractiepark waar ik zelf heen zou willen gaan. Het voelde voor mij nét iets te echt. Wat in feite heel positief is, want dat betekent dat ik écht door het verhaal meegenomen werd. This book brought home the reality and horror of being brainwashed and the dangers of living in a completely controlled environment. I can't help but wonder how "true" of a book it is. I don't want to believe that there was motivation to make things up as the truth seems dramatic enough. Did Carolyn ever abuse her children or the other wives kids? It seems likely that she would, coming from such an abusive mother, but she paints herself in a favorable light, as is expected.

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In the wake of the recent raid that removed hundreds of children from an FLDS ranch in Texas (a sister community to Jessop's that is reportedly now run by her ex-husband) I heard a lot of talk about freedom of religion. Those who think the State of Texas acted too overzealously would do well to read this book. If there is anything that Jessop's account makes abundantly clear, it's that women who have had obedience beaten into them since they were children are anything but free. The question of how much the government should intervene in groups like these is, to say the least, a thorny one, particularly when most victims are too terrified to go against everything they have been taught to testify against their abusers. Jessop's disturbing recitation of how things got even worse after Warren Jeffs rose to power is also chilling reminder of how easily blind obedience to irrational doctrines can be horrifically abused by ambitious, power-hungry men like Jeffs. When she was eighteen years old she had an arranged marriage Merril Jessop, a man 30 years older than her and who already had three wives. Carolyn stayed married to him for over fifteen years and eight children. She was verbal abused and her life was completely controlled. In a couple of instances, one puzzle type required an unexpected leap that wasn’t explained in the solutions. If there was a clue that hinted towards that extra step, I couldn’t find it. I am LDS and confidently can say how very few similarities there are between the FLDS and LDS churches. Glory be!!! As an LDS woman I have the freedom to be who I am and pursue my different interests. I can get as much education as I desire. I have a car that is not only registered but is insured with up-to-date license plates. The FLDS cult made a prison for women and children. The LDS church actively preaches how important and indispensable women are. The code wheel provided many opportunities to anticipate and celebrate getting a correct answer. I didn’t feel like it wore out its welcome, but others might find it tedious to solve so many similar ciphers.Ohh wat zou ik hier vroeger fan van zijn geweest! Thrillerserie/RL Stine… heerlijk! Maar ik moet toegeven dat ik misschien toch wel zou zijn afgehaakt door de cover. Ik hou namelijk niet van horror… en de covers van deze serie zijn wel écht heel creepy. Toch viel het verhaal me qua horrorgehalte erg mee. Ik moest regelmatig denken aan Marcel van Driel’s ‘Superhelden.nl’. Dat was ook een heel spannende serie. Daar had dit verhaal wel wat van weg.

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The book is extremely informative if a little dry in the delivery. This is the kind of book that many should be aware of. This is a factual retelling of Carolyn’s life and life in the FLDS ruled by men. There are lots of other unsavoury aspects to the FLDS that Carolyn did not get into as she was tied up trying to look after 8 children in a horrible environment of bullying and abuse. You can certainly read them online. Warren Jeffs would become the prophet and the FLDS took an even more extreme turn which was supposed to work out well for Warren and his cronies. Gelukkig heeft K.R. Alexander gezorgd voor een realistische ontwikkeling wat Cody betreft, door de lezer te laten zien welke gevolgen bepaalde keuzes hebben. En wat het met anderen doet als je je anders voor doet dan je bent. Hiermee geeft hij de jeugdige lezers ook een duidelijke boodschap mee.But Carolyn could visualize and renew her future and her identity for a purpose. Time after time she could. How wonderful is individual found identity of value! Carolyn was born into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS). She never knew any other way of life. But, fortunately, she was 'allowed' to attend college, and rubbed shoulders ... just a tiny bit ... with outsiders. Also, as she was studying for a teaching degree, her education exposed her to concepts about child care, etc. that she had never encountered. After living a life where every move she made had to be 'approved' by her husband for 17 years, and after bearing this (and I use this word loosely here) ' man' eight children, she escaped her prison. I was quite a few years into writing my novel Patience before I realised it was – among other things – a kind of prison-break story. The prison is a Catholic children’s home in 1979, and the prisoner is a boy called Elliott who can move only one finger, but the basic obsessive situation of confinement/escape is the same. Elliott yearns to be free. She is the cousin, by marriage, of Flora Jessop, another former FLDS member and advocate for abused children. One woman, Carolyn Jessop, had just enough exposure to the outside world, some higher education, and a fiercely independent and stubborn streak that after nearly 20 years of polygamous marriage, (abuse at the hands of her husband and sister wives included with vows! Sign up today!) she had the balls to leave.

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The Adventure of the London Waterworks rewarded completionism. Wrong choices often provided amusing endings or diversions, and there were hidden secrets to be found even after the story was complete. Tips For Players That whole section on how these men (and not just in religion life style) proceed to have 10 to 50 children that they do not support and yet use practiced methods for governmental welfare at dozens of levels for lodging to food to medical to schooling to transport! Laughingly calling that "bleeding the beast" at the same time! Not just this particular sect brags of that habit. Samen met zijn beste vriend heeft hij zich ingeschreven om kans te maken om als één van de eerste honderd deelnemers een geheel nieuw pretpark te mogen bezoeken. Vooralsnog zijn alleen nog bekende tieners uitgeloot om te mogen gaan, maar dan valt Cody’s naam.

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It's all anyone talks about, and it's all Cody dreams about. It's the biggest adventure park in the world, and it's more than mere rides and rollercoasters: At ESCAPE, you can do anything you want, be anyone you want, and there are no adults to tell you no. I was born into six generations of polygamy on my mother’s side and started life in Hildale, Utah in a fundamentalist Mormon community known as the FLDS, or the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Polygamy was the issue that defined us and the reason we’d split from the mainstream Mormon Church’. The author, Carolyn Jessop, goes on to say: ‘A man must have multiple wives if he expects to do well in heaven, where he can eventually become a god and wind up with his own planet’. Then there is this: ‘The official policy of the Mormon Church became, and still is, that those who practice polygamy are not in harmony with God.’ The prophet, Joseph Smith, was rumoured to have had between 33 and 48 wives but in 1890 those who practice polygamy would be excommunicated by the Mormon church. Het verhaal is geschreven vanuit Cody, en zijn emoties en gevoelens komen duidelijk over. Een tiener die geen goed zelfbeeld heeft, ruziënde ouders thuis en zichzelf afvraagt waar hij thuis hoort in de wereld. Nog steeds geeft elk deel mij weer die nostalgische gevoelens van vroeger. Elk verhaal is weer uniek. I cannot wait to read her next book "Triumph". And wonder how she will get Betty "around" and out. And how Harrison's health and Arthur's career is going too.