Dave Pelzer : A Child Called It

[Michelle]

After looking at it many times, I finally picked up the trilogy in a charity shop, and have almost finished the first part, A Child Called It.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0752853716/202-5673453-4646244

It is the most amazing, heart-breaking story. It is just beyond me to believe that people like this exist.. the cruelty is just beyond words.

I'm glad I have the trilogy, because I believe that Dave grows to be an extraordinary man, helping others.. and I have to read that positive outcome.

[Vicki]

I read the first of his books a few years ago and thought it was incredibly written, and a heart-wrenching story.

I have the other 2 books but haven't read them yet. It is almost unbelievable sometimes to find out how differently some people live and grow up.

[Kell]

This is actually one of the very few books my sister (who is an absolute non-reader) has read from cover to cover. I think she even read the sequels. I really should get hold of them myself for a looksee.

[Kell]

I was chatting to my sis on the phone tonight & metnioed that I'd got hold of a copy of this. She said she'd managed to read all 3 books in little over a week.

My sister doesn't read - it took her 6 months to read Jude the Obscure for her Higher English.

This is something of a miracle.

She's offered to lend me the other 2 when I've read this one.

[Inanna]

Did you know that one of David Pelzer's brothers have now written a book as well?

A Brothers Journey: Surviving A Childhood Of Abuse ~ by Richard B. Pelzer (http://www.amazon.co.uk/o/ASIN/0751536008/203-7532128-7582312?SubscriptionId=0RVJHEH2EG8VR9SZB6R2)

Think I'll be getting this one to read.

[Kell]

I was just looking at that one on Read it, Swap it - LOL!

[Inanna]

LOL :mrgreen:

Just reserved it from my library :D

[Icecream]

I read these books years ago, but read the third one first because it was separate to the other two for promotion of the books. I bought the others the week after and took them all down to an army barracks to read.

I was uplifted, horrified and sypathetic all at once.

I have recently given my sister the first two. She never reads, but our older sister has told her she has to read these books so that she can do the same job as Sarah does. She told me last week that she really enjoyed the first one and felt for Dave. She was really up for talking about the book which is great for someone who will not normally touch books

[Janet]

I read the first one about five or six years ago. The book was a really difficult, and yet compelling, read. I had to put it down in some parts, because I felt as though I really sick (I'm very squeamish!), and yet I had to finish it.

I have since read the other books.

I know his mother had some kind of mental illness, but as a mother myself, I have no comprehension of how Dave's mother could have been so totally and utterly cruel.