Brian Merrell Merrell من عند El Uno, كوبا
A great story about how Greg Mortenson's (an American mountain climber) experience building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The book highlights the good one person can accomplish if they take action. I had a couple of huge issues with this book, however. First of all, it was extremely annoying how many times "Mortenson" is repeated in this book (see Amazon.com's concordance on this book at http://www.amazon.com/Three-Cups-Tea-...). Combining "Mortonson" and "Greg" there is a whopping 2045 occurances on 334 pages. That breaks down to a litte over six times per page--pretty high on my annoyance radar. The word "school" only appears 437 times. What would have been wrong with using the word "he" a time or two to break up the monotony. Secondly, sometimes it read as an "Everything You Wanted to Know About Afghanistan/Pakistan But Were Afraid To Ask" rather than an account of the impact the schools had on the people in that region. I would have rather heard more about the people's lives who were changed than a background on Mother Teresa. The regional tutorial was very tedious and sometimes downright boring whereas the parts about his being held captive, the effects of his travels on his family, and the snippets about specific beneficiaries of his efforts were much more interesting. Overall it was a story I would have preferred hearing Greg Mortenson tell himself, from his own perspective. As it was, I feel it is rather confusing to list him as the "author" when clearly it was written in a third personal journalistic format by David Relin.