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aoutrance 's review for:
3.5 stars.
It's been some time since I read Three Cups of Tea (April 2011), but apparently I wasn't particularly impressed. Two stars, with notes about Mortenson's lack of management skills and the (actual) writer's incredible hard-on for him. Krakauer goes in the opposite direction - I sense a little bitter anger on his part.
Mortenson having Mother Teresa as a role model makes a lot of sense - she was kind of a shitty person too. ("The world gains much from [the poor's] suffering.")
Krakauer did not tell us that he had invested a considerable amount of his own money into the coffers of Mortenson's charity until midway through Part II of this book, but I suppose that doesn't make the truths he has tracked down any less relevant. Even with Relin's effusive praise in Three Cups of Tea, it seemed obvious to me that Mortenson never had the ability or inclination to run the organization that he started; he wanted to be the idea man. Technically, he did fulfill what he set out to do - build a school. The fact that land ownership, communication with board members and foreign public officials and educational training and supplies came along for the ride was not something he was interested in and it shows by the empty buildings scattered across northern Pakistan. I'm glad for the kids he did manage to help, but his significant lies and mismanagement hurt the original agenda abominably.
It's been some time since I read Three Cups of Tea (April 2011), but apparently I wasn't particularly impressed. Two stars, with notes about Mortenson's lack of management skills and the (actual) writer's incredible hard-on for him. Krakauer goes in the opposite direction - I sense a little bitter anger on his part.
Mortenson having Mother Teresa as a role model makes a lot of sense - she was kind of a shitty person too. ("The world gains much from [the poor's] suffering.")
Krakauer did not tell us that he had invested a considerable amount of his own money into the coffers of Mortenson's charity until midway through Part II of this book, but I suppose that doesn't make the truths he has tracked down any less relevant. Even with Relin's effusive praise in Three Cups of Tea, it seemed obvious to me that Mortenson never had the ability or inclination to run the organization that he started; he wanted to be the idea man. Technically, he did fulfill what he set out to do - build a school. The fact that land ownership, communication with board members and foreign public officials and educational training and supplies came along for the ride was not something he was interested in and it shows by the empty buildings scattered across northern Pakistan. I'm glad for the kids he did manage to help, but his significant lies and mismanagement hurt the original agenda abominably.