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As I read the book, I summarized the story for my husband, because it's such a fine example of how one person can make a huge difference. HOWEVER, each sentence is so overly polished that you can hardly see the story through the glare. Here's an example from page 86. "...through the windshield, with its spidery webwork of fissures, he saw the sixteen-thousand-foot-high panorama of the Karakoram's foothills tearing at a blameless blue sky with its fearsome assortment of brown, broken teeth." In other words, he could see the mountains through the cracked windshield. The entire book is like this. Sure there's a story, but it's so buried under description, good luck finding it. Also, the writer must have one heck of a thesaurus, because he keeps using the word vertiginous. From page 134: "to the tony and vertiginous streets... Arm and arm with his wife, Greg Mortenson [in case you've forgotten his last name] watched the setting sun kiss the Pacific...and paint Angel Island a rose color [thesaurus must have crashed here] that he would forever after consider the exact hue of happiness." At this point, I gave up, skimmed ahead a bit, and returned the book to the library. Happy reading!