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Summary: Excellent insight on Child Abuse
Review: This book was so powerful that I could not put it down. This book is a first hand account of the abuse and cruelty experienced by the child Dave Pelzer. For those who do not have their own personal abuse experiences, this can give you an excellent look at what children like Dave go through. For those who have experienced similar abuse, you will be able to identify with the feelings young David has. You can share in the different ways Dave tried to get through the abuse with one goal: survival. This book is such a wonderful, honest depiction from the child's stand-point. I would highly recommend this book to every parent, teacher, social worker, foster parent, and special needs adoptive parent. I wish I could give it more than 5 stars.
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Summary: A reveiw
Review: It was during our summer vacation in Sacramento,California when I read the first book ( A child called it .)I finished the book within two days. When we got back home I didn't waste anytime on getting the second book. After I finished reading the second book (The lost boy)I then got the final book. ( A man named Dave)It went great to bad and from bad to worse. But don't worry it will get better. But you have to read all three to find out.It truely is a story of forgiveness. I started cying more then once.
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Summary: A Child called "it"
Review: I think that this book was a great book. This book was so touching. I couldn't believe some of the things that this child had to go throw. This book was so hard to put down because I always wanted to know what was going to happen next. I would lay in bed at night after reading this and just think how can this mother live with herself after beating David so badly. The thing that got me the most was when she was telling him to take off all his clothes and lay on top of the stove on the burning flames. Then when she couldn't get him up there she stock his arm in the flames that part made me feel the pain. This book had alot of them part were I could just put myself in his shoes and I could feel his pain. I can't believe that the school that he want to didn't realize something was wrong when he was steeling lunches and by the way he looked. It's so hard to believe that the would just blow something like that off. I think that this is the most touching storie I have ever read and it made me really think about how lucky I was growing up to have both parents who loved me and didn't abuse me. It taught me a lesson about all the things that happen to children in a enviorment such as Davids. It makes me so sad to think that there is a child being abused right now, if not more. I think that it is so sad that those child what to love there parents and forgive them. That they are so scared to tell anyone the truth. They don't even realize that they are hurting them self worse by not telling someone. It most have been so lonely to live David's life. To have to watch his brother have fun playing and he couldn't. To hear them laughing and having fun as he sat in the basement alone listing to them. To watch everyone esle around him eat meals and he couldn't have any. To have to wash the dishes after them. I just don't see how he lived throw this. I could never put my child throw this or watch any child arould me be abused, I would report it right away. This book was so good and touching I going to now read the lost boy. I hope that it is as good as a Child Called "it."
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Summary: Lupe Torres (A Child Called "It"}
Review: I enjoyed reading this book because it wasn't make believe. It's talking about someones' life. I liked this book because it was very interesting reading about a persons life and how bad a mother could treat her own child. This book has been one of the best books I have ever read. This book really got to me, it was really emotional. I have read a lot of other books, but none have ever gotten to me as much as this book. I'm planning on reading his other books because I believe that they will be as well written as his book "A Child Called "It".
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Summary: A Child Called It ,Review,David J. Pelzer
Review: I think this was the best book i ever read. It made me want to keep on reading. I didnt want to put the book down. It's about this boy who was always getting beat by his mother and was mistreated. She would treat him like nothing,like an it. She wouldnt even call him a boy,she would say "it". Well he got sick of her,and one day on his way home,jumped out of the car and never seen her again. Now i have to read "The Lost Boy" to find out what else happened.
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Summary: A Child Called "It", review
Review: I read this book in only a few hours as it was so good that I was unable to put it down. It really made me think how lucky I am to have a loving family and nice home. To say I enjoyed the book wouldn't be right, as how anyone could enjoy reading a book all about torture to a child is beyond me. But, what I did enjoy is how David Pelzer makes the reader feel like they is at the scene, with great description to how he is feeling at the time. I know that I would not have been strong enough to make it through those hard years, but I applaude David for living to be a much stronger person. I read the follow up book "The Lost Boy", as soon as I had finished the first book, and my heart skipped a beat everytime David came into contact with his mother, as I was sure she wouldn't be allowed near him. Though I felt it wasn't as gripping as the first book, it was worth reading just to find out what happened to David.
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Summary: Long on "What"... Short on "Why"
Review: This is a truly heart wrenching story and I feel for Dave Pelzer. No one desrves what he got and it, to me, is a miracle he survivied. The book, however, left me wondering what the point was. There was no insight offered as to why his mother made such an aberrant progression from loving mother to psychotic child abuser. No "where are they now" to let you know what the outcome was. I don't know about you but I feel that a book written requiring the reader to read more books to get anything out of the first is a poorly written book.
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Summary: HEART RENCHING
Review: i am only 16 years old, and i read this book as a school project 2 years ago... David's story touched my heart soooo much, and he has impacted my life. When people ask me to suggest a book, this is the FIRST one that comes to mind. I think that EVERYONE should read this book. I admire david, and think he is a great role model. Not only did he survive, but he used his experience in a positive way.....thank you david for passing your story on.
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Summary: INCREDIBLY MOVING
Review: When I was reading this book, I could not put it down. It is the best book I have ever read! But the horrible strange tortures that this boy's alchoholic mother does to him brought tears to my eyes. She tried to kill him many times, made him eat his baby brother's crap, and his own vomit, when she made him throw up the food he stole because she refused to feed him. This woman was crazy, cruel, and another thing that he called her(you will have to read the book for this one). I never realized how terrible abuse is or how bizarre and horrible it could be until I read "A Child Called 'It'".
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Summary: Woefully lacking in depth
Review: If you must read this book, borrow it from the library. Poorly written and rife with grammatical errors, "A Boy Called 'It'" offers a meandering account of child abuse with no great insight into its causes or cures. Don't get me wrong -- the tales of torture are gut-wrenching, to be sure. But reading it is the literary equivalent of looking at a traffic accident as you drive past...fascinating and horrible, but ultimately pointless. I've read dozens of reviews here on Amazon, and many of them seem to be giving a high star-rating out of sympathy for the author. Though I, too, feel very badly for him, "A Boy Called 'It'" is not a self-help book and does not aspire to improve the world. Rather, it reads like a cathardic memoir that is woefully short on meaningful explanations and agonizingly long on simple descriptions of maltreatment. For an interesting narrative about the "why" of abuse and evil in general, I'd recomment reading a chapter called "Rebellion" in "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevski. SFW
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