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Stones Into Schools |  | Author: Greg Mortenson
Publisher: Viking USA
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 27
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.4 x 1.6
ISBN: 0670021156
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.8234209581
EAN: 9780670021154
ASIN: 0670021156
Publication Date: December 1, 2009
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Loved It February 11, 2010
Anne Shaw
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For me this was a wonderful heart warming and thrilling book.We hear much pessimism about efforts in Afghanistan. This book is filled with hope even though as reaaders we are exposed to much pain and surrering. We are porvided with insight into Afghanistan that for me is much deeper and different from what we read in newspapers, magazines or hear on televsion. Four years ago I read "Three Cups of Tea". I recommend "Stones into Schools" as a follow-up that won't disappoint. Through this book I find myself awed and appreciative of the Greg Mortensons of this world and his Afghani associates.
If you liked 3 cups of tea, you will love this one February 11, 2010
I. Dobson (Thunder Bay, Ont)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Stones into Schools picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off. We are taken into Afghanistan and the world of Taliban, nomadic horseman and living conditions that stretch the limits of human endurance. Once again, this is a rolicking adventure tale that will keep you up late at night racing from one chapter to the next to see how it is all going to work out. It is both entertaining and inspirational, and a story of true sacrifice by so many people for the common good. Your preconceived notions of people living in this part of the world will change profoundly as your move through the chapters and Mortenson's writing style is captivating. I have loaned out Three cups of tea so many times now that it is falling apart. I know that this book will meet the same fate. You will want everyone you know to read this book.
Another powerful blow to stereotypes February 5, 2010
H. Abbas (Canada)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I think we're all guilty of stereotyping one another, it easy, and definitely requires more effort to get to know the other. Greg on the other hand, takes each person as they are, and how they reveal themselves to him. The best thing about this book, which also speaks volumes to Mr. Mortenson's success is his honesty in getting to know the Afghani and Pakistani people, rather then telling them this is what you need, he asks them and more often than not, they tell him what they need, which is exactly what he, or any person who wants to progress does, education. Throughout the book we see examples of communities seeking him out, begging him to build school for their kids, especially girls. Great is shattering the stereotypes of the typical Muslim Afghani or Pakistani male. Definitely a must read.
What makes this book special? December 28, 2009
Lamar Fretz (Dunnville, Ontario, Canada)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
What makes this book special?
Greg Mortenson is gifted in listening to people. He looks into their eyes and realizes that they are human just like he is.
But this takes a lot of time. If somehow we could be disciplined to learn a little of another language and manage to listen to people to tell how they feel about things, it would be a better world.
The media let us know constantly about disastrous things happening across the world. But we are not told about good people doing good things in every emergency.
The number one sin of our North American culture is that it fails to listen to what others are trying to say to us. Our great strength of money and power becomes our weakness.
The "three cups of tea" formula empowers others, indeed "winning their hearts and minds". We should go with books, not guns.
Lamar Fretz
A Very Inspiring Mission December 25, 2009
Ian Gordon Malcomson (Smithers, Canada)
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
When we last saw Greg Mortenson in the early part of this century, he was, with the assistance of his NGO, the Central Asian Institute, helping local residents from primitive Pakistani villages in the upper Swat Valley build a number of schools for young children. While the details of this adventure, as found in "Three Cups of Tea", forms one of the most inspiring and gripping books I have ever read, Mortenson returns from a more recent sojourn in the adjoining land of northern Afghanistan, with an even better tale for his readers to enjoy. When I took up "Stones into Schools", the account of his school-building exploits in a region known as the Wakhan Corridor, I was curious to learn how he and his organization would expand their humanitarian efforts into the far-flung, often wild and inaccessible corners of war-torn Afghanistan. Since this part of the world was shut off to Mortenson during the horror years of the Taliban rule in the late nineties, he had to wait for a regime change in 2002 to make his move. This time, the construction efforts would be focused on setting up schools for young girls in out-of-the-way places, who were educationally-deprived and socially shunned by traditional Afghan society. This book describes the challenges Mortenson and his local contacts had in gaining access to the land of the Kirghiz people, winning their confidence and cooperation in building schools, and then training locals to operate them. The reader should have no problem envisaging the tortuous and treacherous landscape of the Parmir Knot Mortenson and his amazing agent and friend, Sarfraz, have to cross to reach these impoverished villages with a message of hope. While Mortenson devotes a lot of his attention describing the physical(earthquakes), political(corruption and crime) and economic(poverty) obstacles confronting the building of these schools, his real moment of triumph comes when the job finally gets done by locals with local materials. I recommend this book as a powerful reminder of what can get done if people are willing to set aside their petty differences in the interest of a common good.
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