The writing is very simple, yet amazing for someone who didn't finish elementary school. Her thought-process and intelligence is also simply amazing for someone who basically stopped learning at that age. I don't know how she got through this ordeal, I'm just amazed by her. Eighteen years in captivity. Knowing her captors even longer than she knew her own mother. Having babies in a backyard. Losing the pets that she loved over and over again. The mental, emotional, and physical abuse. The annoying rants of the psycho who kidnapped her. This book was both sad and inspiring.