Even Silence Has an End
My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

UPDATE - 2/17/16: I'm not trying to claim some false sense of importance by writing this. I'm well aware that this is just goodreads. I doubt that the author has read my review (God, I hope not, anyway), and I know that very few people will care about this update. Still, I couldn't live with myself......more

As an example of its type, the hostage memoir, this book will go down as one of the best. It is a towering achievement to have conceived and written a book like this after one's release, for as fellow captive Clara Rojas wrote in her memoir Captive: 2,147 Days of Terror in the Colombian Jungle, "goi......more

‘Even Silence has an End' by Ingrid Betancourt is an extremely honest and vivid survivor account by the author in having been a prisoner from 2002 to 2008 of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). It is amazing she, or any of the other captives with her, lived. The conditions of her life......more

You spend a little over six years in captivity in the Colombian jungle together — tortured, sick, and hopeless — and you’d think that, once you’re free, all you’d really care about is the fact that the nightmare has finally come to an end. But, in a day and age where surviving an especially shitty c......more