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Summary: Assisted Suicide?
Review: This book is ridiculous. Stephen is a dead child. What a tremedous loss. A suicide. His mother wrote this book after his death trying to convince the reader she communicates with her son after his death. The only thing she convinced me of is she is partly to blame for his suicide. This book should've been written from jail cell.
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Summary: Ridiculous
Review: This book is ridiculous. Stephen is a dead child. What a tremedous loss. A suicide. His mother wrote this book after his death trying to convince the reader she communicates with her son after his death. The only thing she convinced me of is she is partly to blame for his suicide. This book should've been written from jail cell.
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Summary: life over death
Review: This book will convince any suicidal child life is preferrable over death!
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Summary: INCREDIBLE
Review: This is my first time writing a review. It's also the first time I ever bought a book based soley on the reviews of others. I had to! If you'll read the reviews on this site for this book, you'll see there is NO middle ground. People either loved it or hated it. One star reviews or Five star reviews. I had to get it to make up my mind for myself. I read it with an open mind and have a very weird recommendation. I give this book a One Star rating, and yet I reccomend it for older folks who can read between the lines as it is a fascinating psychological study of a mother pretty much destroyed by guilt and grief. I can only give it One Star because the book purports to be written by the mother's dead son via visits from the afterlife. We are to take this very seriously, and heed the advice from this dead young man, who spouts all kinds of philosophy, and even does a little "spying" on his mother's friends, for his mother, from the beyond. In the end, the dead boy warns against suicide, even though HE seems to be enjoying the afterlife pretty good, and the messages are definately mixed. But as a study of a mother torn completely apart- this is great book. Only it's not the book the Mother set out to write.
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Summary: Not Very Believable
Review: This is new age tripe at it's worst. We are asked to believe that Stephen killed himself and then dictated this "book" to his mother. The book is written by Anne Puryear, the mother, without an ounce of irony. This is certainly not a good book to give a depressed person. Why not kill yourself if you're still "around" afterwards to write books, talk to your loved ones and spew goofy advice. I'm not very critical of books- I like most everything. I didn't like this.
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Summary: Couldn't Finish It
Review: Who's got the button? It seems that the reviewers' buttons are very touchy. I know Anne and when she talked about this book before it was published and the hope it would give others, her face shone. She wanted to tell the story of Stephen's existence and his death was a part of it. In the book, she discusses her pain. It is like standing still while acid is poured into open cuts. It described the unendurable continuous unvoiceable scream that wracks your soul. She gives parents a point at which they can connect with her feelings and once there, hold her hand as she comes through it. When you read this look for the joy. Peace be with you.
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Summary: Button, Button
Review: Who's got the button? It seems that the reviewers' buttons are very touchy. I know Anne and when she talked about this book before it was published and the hope it would give others, her face shone. She wanted to tell the story of Stephen's existence and his death was a part of it. In the book, she discusses her pain. It is like standing still while acid is poured into open cuts. It described the unendurable continuous unvoiceable scream that wracks your soul. She gives parents a point at which they can connect with her feelings and once there, hold her hand as she comes through it. When you read this look for the joy. Peace be with you.
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