Reviews for Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

The average rating for Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-06-11 00:00:00 Dominique Cox It's unbelievable that many reviews for this book tend to focus on the completely irrelevant fact that Anderson Cooper is gay. It proves his point about how many simply forget about disasters. Here the book outlines disasters all over the world and goes into extreme detail about Hurricane Katrina and yet "Is he really gay" are the words in the first reviews that pop up. Some of you folks make me sick. This book is intense. The Hurricane Katrina piece is especially jarring. I highly recommend this easy to read, not so easy to digest account of what it was like behind the cameras. Behind the things a puritanical society won't allow to be shown, or spoken of, on television. This is a shockingly heartfelt memoir, far away from such immature questions about the authors sexuality.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-05-29 00:00:00 George Heib Dispatches from the edge was a very...not edgy book. Entertaining and enlightening perhaps, but but it is more likely to be that to someone who does not listen to NPR or BBC, or just does not know what is going on in the world. Cooper is a talented, ballsy reporter, no doubt, and his reports and blogs are great and informative, but this book, at least for me, was very much "nothing new under the moon." Entertaining, and a little sad, but not much else. Also, his narrative timeframe was a little disjointed; he bounced around a lot in time.