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I've heard nothing but great things about "The Glass Castle" and I'm seriously coming to believe them. Every page has been filled with something completely wild, and not expected that it just makes me keep wanting to turn page after page. I'm honestly suprised that it's a memoir because some of the stuff is just so out of the ordinary and unbelievable that I have to remind myself this is completely true. For example, "...we took a sharp turn over some railroad tracks, the door flew open, and I tumbled out the of car. I rolled several yards...I lifted my head to watch the Green Caboose get smaller and smaller and then disappear around the bend." (Jeannete Walls, 30) -Then it continues to talk about how she waited for her parents to come back for her, like how do you not notice your kid has flew out the car door and not stop immedietly? And even the part when their parents make all the kids, including their newborn baby sit in the back of a huge moving truck for hours in total darkness and in silence.

The thing I like most about it, is that although some of the stuff written is extremely bizarre it's also has life wisdom that is somewhat true. For example, the part where her father is teaching her to swim but keeps letting her sink, "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim." (66) I think the authors point of this novel was to tell her story, that the fact that such wierd lifestyles can equal total reality is baffling- that not everyone is the same and what they think is abnormal, well...she can blow that thought out of the water.