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Goat: A Memoir
Written by Brad Land
Narrated by Nick Landrum
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Reeling from a terrifying assault that leaves him psychologically shattered, 20-year-old Brad Land feels he will never be normal again. When he joins his brother's college fraternity to help him heal, he instead finds a new found terror.
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Reviews for Goat
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The trend of twenty and thirtysomethings writing memoirs continues in this memoir of one man's struggle to be accepted by his younger brother's fraternity. The writing was okay, but the story left me a little bored. Is a semester of hazing enough to hang a memoir on? In this case, the answer is no. There's little surprising here. Land joins a fraternity, is treated badly (or hazed) and he and his brother grow apart. As hazing rituals go, the descriptions within Goat seem pretty mild. Land's relationship with his brother, and the other men in the fraternity, aren't quite compelling enough to carry the memoir.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book was interesting, but in all reality I wasn't actually all that surprised by the violence of the fraternity hazing. I had read about it before and heard about it before so I wasn't completely shocked. It's amazing how cruel some people can be to each other. There were some cringes inducing moments -- mostly for me during the first part of the book, not the fraternity part. I think what was the saddest part of this book was the internal struggle Land went through and also the relationship with his brother. That part was harder to take than the actual descriptions of the beatings and hazing. Overall a pretty good memoir. Quick read and kept my attention.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the most scary, disturbing books I have read. Required reading for any boy who is thinking of joining a fraternity known for their hazing rituals. If you like memoirs, you will enjoy the writing style of Land.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a difficult book to read. It's the story of author Brad Land's relationship with his brother. Told in a similar writing style to that of James Frey, Brad Land opens his book revealing the details of his kidnapping and brutal assault. On the heels of this violence, Land follows his brother to college where his past victimization continues to plague him under new and perhaps even more difficult circumstances. The book is fast reading, the writing is engaging, but I cringe when I think of the cruelty in it. Now that I've seen the demons that have haunted this author in the past, I'd really love to know about the more positive aspects of his life. For a debut novel, though, this book is quite impressive despite its tendency to leave the reader in despair.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I don't understand why people who have gone through the humiliation and degradation of being hazed turn around and do it to someone else. One would think that after being treated badly, the chain would break and this ridiculous ritual would stop. But Brad Land recounts his story of a brutal attack, and how he then turned on someone else during his tenure in a frat at Clemson. He comes full circle, and it's almost possible to understand how it happened for him, but it's still a very disturbing and haunting memoir.Makes me glad that my son isn't in a frat!