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Woman, Child for Sale: The New Slave Trade in the 21st Century

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I was not thrilled with this book. I found the basic information enlightening but didn't get the impression that it was well researched and thought out, just taken from other easy to find sources. I would definitely read more on the subject but wouldn't buy another book by this author. I just read the reviews on one of this author's other books and can see a pattern.

This book does a huge disservice to the serious issue of human trafficking. It is very poorly researched, highly derivitive, and badly written. It does not even begin to grapple with the complications of the global trade in human beings but instead relies on sensation and titillation. I would not accept this from an undergraduate.

There is a real need for accessible information on the subject of human trafficking in order to make individuals, communities and governments aware of what is going on and how they can work to stop this sad trade. Unfortunately this book does not even begin to meet that need.

Lacks just about everything:

insight, depth, substance, reasearch, a professional approach.. It reads like an essay I would have written in high school. Don't waste money on it. Your time (and money) is better spent on Wikipedia.

I expected that such an interesting topic would be a worthy read regardless of the author but I'm sorry to say that I was very wrong. I should have realized this when looking at the back and seeing a quote by Colin Powell that was meant to look like it was in response to this particular book, but was in fact an unrelated quote.

Poorly written, and mostly a compilation of information from a few other sources, you're better off going straight to the quoted sources for a better read. You can probably use the 'look inside' feature on Amazon to find the books he quoted from. Oh yeah, only took me two hours to read... you may be better off with a good magazine article.

Should be a mandatory book for any current events course in college. The problem of human slavery is overlooked by schools and the media, and this book sheds light on a tragedy of enormous proportion. Woman, Child for Sale also reports on the countries that are the biggest violators of this human rights crisis and presents possible solutions. I was swept away by the depth of this problem and found this book very useful and informative.

This book is one of half a dozen books that I bought last week. I have had difficulty putting this book down, as it is insightful, gripping,and utterly heart-wrenching. It explores a topic that many people choose to ignore in today's blind society, and it ought to be read by intellectuals world-wide.

I was really disappointed in this book. It was very amateurish and shallowly researched. There is a lengthy section on slavery throughout [Western] history that comes across as filler rather than as background for the subject. I didn't get the sense that the author did any original scholarship or conducted any interviews to write this book.

Gilbert King does for this one specific topic, human trafficking, what 'Illicit : How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy' does for the vast array of illegal trade: a thorough and provocative study of the crime, including as much relevant information as currently available to the public. At times a bit repetitive, but this can be forgiven in light of the large amount of information King delivers.

This is the fourth book to read in understanding human trafficking, all available from Amazon. First, read 'Race Against Evil: The Secret Missions of the Interpol Agent Who Tracked the World's Most Sinister Criminals;' then 'Illicit : How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy;' and 'The Natashas : Inside the New Global Sex Trade.'

The seller sent me a library book from the Salt Lake City Library.

The book itself isn't very good. It talks alot about Tapestry against poligamy and is written by one of the members. The book is a hodge podge of sometimes crappy and sometimes interesting stories of women who've escapped poligamy.

The stories tend to be to brief and vague to create to much care.