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The World Is Bigger Now
- An American Journalist's Release from Captivity in North Korea...A Remarkable Story of Faith, Family, and Forgiveness
- By: Euna Lee, Lisa Dickey
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
For the first time, Euna Lee - the young wife, mother, and film editor detained in North Korea - tells a harrowing, but ultimately inspiring, story of survival and faith in one of the most isolated parts of the world. On March 17, 2009, Lee and her Current TV colleague Laura Ling were working on a documentary about the desperate lives of North Koreans fleeing their homeland for a chance at freedom when they were violently apprehended by North Korean soldiers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Much more than "talk therapy"
- By BasenjiMom on 05-06-12
- The World Is Bigger Now
- An American Journalist's Release from Captivity in North Korea...A Remarkable Story of Faith, Family, and Forgiveness
- By: Euna Lee, Lisa Dickey
- Narrated by: Janet Song
Talk therapy for the author
Reviewed: 12-27-10
This book seems to be primarily the author's method of dealing with her own guilt in this situation. Cliche-ridden and over-dramatized, the author demonstrates a level of naiveté and foolishness that should embarrass anyone calling themselves a journalist. It doesn't appear that any research was done post-release to verify the bad information and incorrect assumptions of the author. I am sorry that I spent any time listening to this at all as the portrayal of North Korea and captivity is on such an elementary level in the few instances when it is correct, that the author's network should be held responsible for turning someone so unprepared out into the world and risk capture in the first place.
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