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# Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church Hardcover – Illustrated, March 5, 2013

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## Customer Reviews

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    Fantastic Account of Life in the WBC
  

*by S***. on Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2019*

(crossposted from Goodreads)I devoured this book in about a day. I rarely pay for audiobooks anymore, choosing, generally, to get them for free on Overdrive. But after reading "Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope" by Megan Phelps-Roper, I just had to read this book. Lauren brings kind of an outsider (non-Phelps) perspective to the WBC story. I'm glad she got away from the WBC and decided to tell her story. In comparing and contrasting her book with Megan's, I do think Megan is more likeable and sympathetic. Lauren verges on insincere at times. I believe her story. But, understandably, her story is spun from her perspective, casting her as a perpetual victim and others as villains. Her father is a villain. I don't doubt that. And Lauren is a victim. She was brought in to the church as a child. She had no say over whether she got to go there and she certainly couldn't leave before adulthood. As with Megan's family, I hope Lauren's family escapes the WBC someday and reunites with her. Her father... I think he's a pretty bad egg. He's the most alpha beta I've ever heard of. He NEEDS to be in submission to someone even as he craves power over others. I hope the day comes when he's the only remaining member of the WBC. But who knows, maybe he'll see the light someday and leave the church. Hopefully he won't latch on to another extremist group.

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    Not an expose, more of a memior, but still worthy!
  

*by B***. on Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2013*

This is not an expose, it is Lauren's memoir.  This is not an in-depth account with interviews and researched second-hand information, it is her experiences and observations.  That doesn't necessarily make it any less informational, it just wasn't what I initially expected.  A few random thoughts...- It is a bit slow at times, though other parts I couldn't put it down.- I did get frustrated at her insecurities at times, though at least she was up front and admitted them.  She didn't try to rationalize them.- I do believe that if she had never been banished, or would have been allowed back in shortly thereafter, she'd be in now and this book would never have been written.  However, at this point, I do not believe she would ever go back now if the chance were presented.- Her father... where do I start?  I almost felt like he was the bigger villain than Fred Phelps himself.  Her father fancied himself a lion, but was in reality nothing but a sheep subconsciously willing to latch onto any person with a stronger personality than his.  He really set himself up to be a 'tool' of the church, in every intent of the term.- Fred Phelps actually doesn't play prominently in the book, as she didn't have much direct interaction with him.  She did, however, have a great deal of interaction with his daughter Shirley who pretty much runs the church anyway.- I have to admit that I was grudgingly impressed by the church's attention to detail and internal self-discipline.- On the flips side, it was repugnant how controlling and paranoid and hypocritical the inner circle family members are.  Then again, that really shouldn't come as a surprise.All in all, a good read, very informative, worthwhile, but not quite 5-star worthy.  I give it 4 stars.

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    Illuminating, insightful!
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2019*

This is a well-written autobiography.  Just like a in great play, you can see the foreshadowing of the fissures that will eventually rupture Lauren's world, as her family and church gradually shift and crack.  As a real-life drama, this is a deep insight into the many ways the human mind adapts and even warms to indoctrination and control by fear.  My only regret is that Lauren had had more time in this book to describe the "after": although she describes briefly her new viewpoints of faith and life, I would have loved to hear more of how she dealt with the dissonances and losses that she's processed.  Still, great read!

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