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Helpful Score: 6
Very interesting true story.
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Helpful Score: 2
Take two naive wealthy British sisters, a fanatical self-proclaimed doctor, set the story in the back woods of Washington state in 1911, and you have the ingredients of a pretty good historical novel. Turn all of these into a true account of greed and gullibility and you have a fascinating tale that is unbelievably horrid.
Darlene C. (dolluvsbooks) reviewed Starvation Heights: The True Story of an American Doctor and the Murder of a British Heiress on + 69 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Fascinating psychological study of the victims and the perpertrator
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Helpful Score: 1
I just don't get it. I can't stick to a diet for over 48 hours, and that is also the limit to my fasting. And that long only if I am doing a juice fast. How did these folks survive with months of WILLING fasting? Oh, well, I guess that is the point here...they usually didn't. Try to imagine a full-sized adult weighing 50 pounds! A good read.
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Helpful Score: 1
Very good story and great presentation of the information.