Reply With QuoteGirlfriend read this book and got the same view as you, she says its "heartbreaking".
Read this today, for no reason, in work tonight. Fucking harrowing isn't the word. Painfully descriptive, book, this. Definitely not a re-reader though, just too disturbing. Anyone read this? Or the other two in his trilogy?
For those who dunno, it's a fairly popular / famous autobiographical story by Dave Penzerm, of his childhood where he was treated like dirt by his emotionally deranged, alcoholic mother... it's fucking bleak.
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Originally Posted by djtoast
Yeah the whole series is a bit.
I prefer reading books that don't make me feel like shit.
Every time I'm right a little part of you dies.
It's on par with Requiem for a Dream, I'd say.
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I've read all three plus one of his self-help books and yeah, really horrific. I find the reaction of his family to be very interesting too - one brother wrote a book about his own abuse and that of his brother but the other denied it happened at all.
it was a book i didnt enjoy reading but felt compelled to finish it.
"Boys, its beer oclock and there aint no quitters on the highway to hell."
Read it, wondered why the fuck I did.
Not a nice read at all.
I used to be an animal, but these days I'm retired.
Yeah I read it on holiday a few years ago, not the greatest choice for poolside reading!
It's a good read, but pretty intense. I've read the first one and the second one, never got round to the third.
I've read them all, similar are Please Daddy No, the autobiography of this guy, and Damaged which is probably the most horrific of all of them, maybe because its written by the foster mother, rather than the abuse victim.
Read the last two last week as they were part of the Mothers Day display at my work. Not entirely certain how giving Mum books on child abuse is fitting.
The grammar in that first "sentence" is awful, but thats what I get for reading books written by people that were too busy getting shagged off their parents to go to school.
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I randomly picked A Child Called "It" in borders a few years ago and didn't read the blurb to find it what it was about. But once you start reading it, you can't physically stop. It really is the most horrific book I have ever read but still beautifully written by Dave Pelzer
I dont get why people would read more than one of these kind of books.
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I can see where your coming from poppeto, but the other 2 books in the series really do explain the whole saga in more depth and how he came through the other side
You do realise I shall now force you to read the other two *waves books frantically*
Pffft, that would involve me finding an attention span.
Really though, its upsetting stuff. Maybe ive got too active an imagination.
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Aye, it really was compelling. I didn't want to read on but I fired through it in about two hours. Dreadful stuff. Doubt I'll bother with any more.
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