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Summary: A must read for Adults that were abused....AND their spouse
Review: I cannot express the depth of understanding that I have gained from this book. I spent 30 years feeling unique in my upbringing. I have been able to understand and put to rest many conflicting feelings toward my parents because of this book. I cannot stress enough the importance of this book to the abused (ME) or more importantly, to my spouse in understanding my fears and relational misgivings. Please read this and if you know someont that needs it...you can do no better than Mr Pelzer. his honestly can set you free.
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Summary: Hope and forgiveness
Review: I bought A Man Named Dave after skimming the first of his three books, A Child Called It, and having a hard time controlling my emotions in the bookstore! I kept wondering how a previously happy, loving mother could turn into the kind of monster who would so demean and damage her own child. These are the same questions that Dave Pelzer as an adult sought to understand, and he tells that part of his story in this third book. You read enough of his flashbacks to understand the kind of hell he lived through with his mother, and the turmoil of foster care (detailed in the second book, The Lost Boy), but you also see the hopeful results of his survival. Dave is honest about the damage his past did to his self-image and relationships, but this is definitely a happy-ending story! Reading it, you find yourself rooting for him to succeed in the Air Force, in his efforts to help other abused children, and in building his own family. The ideas here are old-fashioned ones: hard work, perserverance, courage, and self-sacrifice. This is a story which will deeply affect you. It's a reminder that there are children in our own neighborhoods who may be in desperate need. It's also a call that no matter how you've suffered, you can still take responsibility for your life and turn suffering into compassion. Dave Pelzer is a true hero and his story is well worth reading and taking to heart.
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Summary: Forgiveness Takes Alot
Review: I recently read all 3 book about David Pelzer. A child called IT, The Lost Boy, and a Man Named Dave. I was truly horrified by what his Mother put him thru, his life as a foster child and his life as a man. I was truly amazed what he endured and how wonderful a person, husband and father he became. I am a mother of 4 adoptive boys 3 of whom came from a torn family and I hope to have them read these books to see what this man has overcome. I was so proud to have read each of these books and my heart goes out to Dave and his family. I am so glad he made it and I hope he always keeps the faith.
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Summary: Domestic Violence
Review: In the book A man named Dave I thought it was a good book in my point of view. In the book it explains how a young man that has been abused by his mother finally moved away and began to live on his own. Also it tells how he thought oif his life and how he lived it up untill the time he got married and had his first son. He had much love for his son and he tought the proper love that was needed for a person growing up ing a family. I give this book a rate of 5 stars because I thought it was well written and a good story for others to learn from. I encourage others to read this book and to find it as good as I did.
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Summary: You are a better man than I, Dave
Review: I enjoyed the book, as I have all of Dave's books.I do not hold any mailice towards those who hung me in that oak tree, burnt me on a stove, kicked me when I could take no more, forced me to eat human waste and molested me that sunny Easter morning when I lived in that Jacksonville, Florida orphanage. I have forgiven them for those acts.What I cannot forgive them for is how I feel today, as a grown man, because of what they did to me yesterday, as an innocent little six year old boy.Author, Roger Dean Kiser"Orphan, A true story of Abandonment, Abuse and Redemption."
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Summary: A reader from England UK
Review: I have read the trilogy of Dave Pelzer's books and found them all to be a riveting read. On several occasions throughout all the books I had to re-read pages over again because my emotions got the better of me. All the books are well writen and easy to read, once started I could not put them down again till finished.I congratulate the author DAVE PELZER on three truly great books and thank him for sharing his live with us all.
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Summary: Power of Forgivness
Review: The book show the power of forgiveness. This principle works with abuse and is actually the only cure for abuse. I picked this little nuggett up in the book An Encounter With A Prophet and found it a powerful tool in dealing with my past. The man named David illustrates this point very well for those open to the concept. I loved the book.
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Summary: Dave's new and better life!!
Review: I really enjoyed the book A Man Named Dave. This is just one of his books. There all about his life and how his mother abused him and not the other children. She would do horrible stuff to him like stabbed him with a knife and made him drink bleach and amonia and made him starve and she even treated him worse than the dog. I really liked this book it really tuched my heart and made me cry. I didn't really dislike the book except for the mother that was the worse part of the book.
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Summary: A fitting conclusion to a remarkable trilogy
Review: I've read the three books in Dave Pelzer's series and this is a fitting conclusion to a remarkable trilogy.Telling the story of his adult life to the present, Dave tells of his military experience and subsequent marriage/divorce/remarriage and his son. I felt like this was a conclusion to a childhood that was filled with pain and repressed feelings. Not a lot of people have lived to tell the story like David did and I think its a story that should give others hope who might have faced similar situations to David's.
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Summary: My own thoughts
Review: After reading "A child called it" in september of last year i was very touched, moved, upset and quiet honestly traumatised on what david went through with his mother, david has been been through so much in his short life and i wander how on earth he survived all of what he went through, the other things that i would like to add is "why did his mother do this to him" did she go through this when she was a child, was her mother or father doing the same things to her? There must be a reason for this woman doing what she did? I have just tonight finished "The lost Boy" And i must say what a fanatastic read, the foster carers, social workers, everyone that tried to help david must be very proud of what he has achieved.
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