Critical Reviews of My Story by Dave Pelzer
This book is very likely made up from starting time to finish. The events in information technology read like Pelzer imagined the worst kid abuse possible and so said, "And it all happened to me!" Yeah, right. His blood brother and grandmother said in an interview that it was all rubbish, too, which casts more than doubt upon the whole thing. Pelzer also bought his own book in bulk so the sales numbers would put it on the bestseller list -- he only doesn't have a whole lot of credibility. Perhaps worse than the fact that Pelzer is, shall we say, probably somewhat fluid with the truth, is the fact that he's a dreadful author. I no longer own the book (didn't put it through a shredder, like I did with "A Million Fiddling Pieces," but I got rid of it as quickly every bit I could), so I tin't list whatever examples hither, just I do recall that I've seen better writing in sixth-form themes. ******** After deleting I don't know how many comments calling me names, I'grand calculation this note, considering information technology volition save both me and a agglomeration of other people from wasting time: I'll delete any comments that I consider abusive or that I call up constitute ad hominem arguments, so do keep that in listen if you're thinking about composing a long screed. Thanks.
this book was the 'hostel', or 'saw 4' of memoirs. i don't really know why i read information technology. it was complimentary, first of all. and, i guess like any normal human being being, i cannot look away from a trainwreck. 'a child called it' is not very well written. you lot walk away with more questions than you exercise answers. you don't actually learn anything. you do, however, come up abroad with having read some very disturbing and disgusting passages that describe in detail a instance of horrendous kid corruption. i'yard not exactly sure what the book's intention is. it doesn't piece of work very well every bit a memoir. there is no advice that would put this in whatsoever sort of self-assist category. and if its intention is to provide hope to victim's of abuse, i don't know what the accept-away is other than 'if i lived through this, y'all can live through but about anything'. i actually don't know what to make of this book, as a piece of literary work. it's non much of ane -- i don't know if it always gear up out to be i. you lot go little, if any, insight into the dynamics of the brothers. you lot read 1 moment that the narrator hates his father, then loves his father, then hates his father. you lot read that the narrator cannot think the color of his mother's hair or eyes, yet he describes in groovy item many settings, images, etc. you really don't get any insight into the mother'due south descent into mental illness and alcoholism. one day she'southward the all-time, nearly loving mother in the earth, the next she is straight out of a bosch painting. you get a feeling that pelzer is existence very selective with what he shares with us. characters are never anything simply inherently good or inherently evil. he'south either being abused horribly or being embraced lovingly. there seems to be very little greyness area in pelzer'southward book. the grey area is exactly what needs to be illuminated in a book about abuse. nosotros learn far more from a book about becoming an alcoholic than we exercise from a book about being a drunk. the latter is voyeuristic and exploitive, the former can illuminate and possibly save lives. in that location has been quite a flake of controversy surrounding the accuracy of this book. i can't speak to that. there is a blurb about the book being upward for the pulitzer at some point -- pelzer submitted it himself, which anyone tin can do. details similar this practice cipher but add an aureola of serpent oil -- the dime-store self-help book jacket design doesn't assistance matters. the last thing i'd want to do is come down on a dude who's lived through the type of hellish abuse described hither. even if his descriptions were 1/10th truthful, information technology would still exist more than any human beingness should have to suffer. i am not challenge that this guy did non suffer, but we need more from books than a uncomplicated retelling of events. we get that in the newspaper every morning.
This volume was horrible. Period. A waste of my time. Yous come across, what really pisses me off with this book is this: I have known kids that have come up from horribly abusive situations that are more 18-carat than Pelzer is in his "memoir." The stories of his life in this book contradict one another, are extremely over-the-top and, dare I say, fabricated some. Now, before anyone wants to crucify me, look at the facts: His family members were interviewed and stated that this was pure fantasy. (I tin concede that the family members may have lied.) He bought numerous copies of his own book to inflate sales records so that the book would accept a better chance at getting on bestseller lists. (Again, I can concede that he was only helping his writing along by wanting his volume to be seen by a greater audience.) Nevertheless, and here is the kicker for me, if this story is true, then shouldn't just writing information technology and getting the story told redemption enough for Pelzer? A story of this magnitude should be told, there's no uncertainty nigh that. But it should exist told with grace and humility. Pelzer should accept approached this book as an avatar to the thousands of other kids out there that don't have a voice. Instead, Pelzer grandstands and makes the issue of child abuse seem like a sensationalistic piece of family trivia. Very disappointing. WASTE OF Fourth dimension
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer #ane), Dave Pelzer David James "Dave" Pelzer (born December 29, 1960 in San Francisco, California) is an American author, of several autobiographical and self-aid books. He is best known for his 1995 memoir of babyhood abuse, A Child Called "Information technology". It is the story of the early on years of a male child's life, and a real and moving retentiveness. It is Dave Pelzer's childhood, under torture and roughshod starvation by his mother (who was unstable and constantly intoxicated). From the mother'due south betoken of view, her son was no longer her dearest child, he was a slave, nor a boy, just "nil" and that was "It". The boy'south bed, or quondam military blanket, was in the basement. His apparel were torn and fragile. If the mother allowed him to eat, he would swallow only the leftovers in the domestic dog foods. "David" dreamed of finding a family, to love him and consider him their child. He endured years of struggle, impecuniousness and despair, to fulfill his dreams, and to get out something of himself in this world. ... عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «کودکی به نام هیچ»؛ «بچه ای که صداش میکردند «اوهوی!»»؛ «سرگذشت پسری که میخواست زنده بماند»؛ «داستان زندگی من»؛ نویسنده دیو پلزر؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز چهارم ماه اکتبر سال2004میلادی عنوان: کودکی به نام هیچ؛ نویسنده: دیو پلزر؛ مترجم: حمید خادمی؛ تهران، معانی، سال1381؛ در141ص، مصور؛ عنوانهای دیگر: سرگذشت پسری که میخواست زنده بماند؛ کودکی به نام «هیچ»؛ موضوع کودکان آزار دیده؛ داستان دیوید جی پلزر از نویسندگان ایالات متحده آمریکا - سده20م عنوان: بچه ای که صداش میکردند «اوهوی!»؛ نویسنده: دیو پلزر؛ مترجم: امیرابراهیم جلالیان؛ تهران، آفرینگان، سال1383؛ در141ص، مصور؛ عنوان: سرگذشت پسری که میخواست زنده بماند؛ کودکی به نام «هیچ»؛ چاپ دوم سال1393؛ شابک9789647694155؛ عنوان: داستان زندگی من؛ مترجم: مهشید احمد پناه؛ اصفهان، مهرافروز، سال1386؛ در540ص؛ شابک9789649125435؛ داستان سالهای آغازین زندگی پسرکی، و یادمانی واقعی، و تاثرآور است؛ داستان اراده ای برای زنده ماندن؛ و کودکانگی «دیوید پلرز» است، در زیر شكنجه ها، و گرسنگی دادنهای وحشیانه مادرش (كه بی ثبات و دائم الخمر بود)؛ از نظر مادر، پسرش دیگر نه فرزند دلبند او، كه یک برده بود، و نه پسر بچه، بلكه «هیچ» بود، و بس؛ بستر پسرک، یا همان پتوی سربازی کهنه، در زیرزمین خانه، قرار داشت؛ لباسهایش پاره، و بویناک بودند؛ اگر مادر اجازه میداد، تا غذایی بخورد، تنها تكه های باقیمانده در ظرف سگها را، میخورد؛ «دیوید»، رویای یافتن خانواده ای را داشت، تا او را دوست بدارند، و فرزند خویش بشمارند؛ او سالها كشمكش، محرومیت، و نومیدی را تاب آورد، تا رویاهایش را، برآورده سازد، و چیزی از خود در این جهان، به یادگار بگذارد؛ ...؛ تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 22/11/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 17/ten/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی
Hands the near terrifying book I've ever read. I think I had literally repressed the memory of it, until I randomly happened across the title this week. I experienced this volume in a fairly odd manner, during a week-long cheerleading camp my sophomore year of loftier school. My motorcoach was reading information technology and somehow ended up reading the entire book aloud to my squad during breaks and at nighttime. In one case she started, nosotros were all addicted and spent every gratis moment listening with rapt and horrified attention. I retrieve with almost painful clarity the fashion in which we sat at her feet listening to this story of a boy who endured a long childhood of astonishing, sadistic abuse at the hands of his female parent. Girls were crying for long stretches, and not being a crier myself, I listened in a sort of crush-shocked, wide-eyed paralysis. After every single role of the reading, I was convinced it couldn't get worse, that she couldn't possibly practice anything worse to that little boy. And every unmarried fourth dimension I was wrong. I'g non sure I would actually recommend this book or not. It is adept - very adept - just reads with the sort of harrowing inhumanity of a Holocaust memoir. Not light reading, and not a feel-good "I survived the odds" story. It kind of simply makes you lot desire to become habitation and tell your parents that you love them, so bawl your eyes out.
A Child Called "It" HCI, 1995 $9.95
Past Dave Pelzer ISBN 1558743669
One very common upshot that goes around in our world is child corruption, it happens everywhere and it is something that is horrible and cannot exist stopped. Dave Pelzer, the writer of the autobiographical book, A Child Chosen Information technology, shows the very dark corners of child abuse by viewing to the readers his horrific life as a immature boy living with his mother that constantly driveling him.
Dave Pelzer, who lived with his unstable, disturbed, alcoholic mother in a town in California during the early seventy'due south, explains his story about his torturous unforgettable years as a young boy. Throughout the story, he does his best to survive from his mother and tries to stay alive from the pain of hunger, bruises and cuts he receives. The merely thing that keeps him alive are his dreams, wanting a happy and prophylactic family, and besides being someone.
It's terrifying to think after reading this that, this actually had happened to someone, it isn't imitation. This made me say to myself, "wow, life can be and so messed upward, merely you can survive fifty-fifty the most horrible things, as long as you follow your dream, and keep it with y'all as shut equally possible." I believe this is the bulletin, Dave Pelzer is trying to reach out, non simply to the people who go abused consistently, merely also to those who suffer a great bargain of hurting from something terrible everyday. In one case you accept read the last word of the story, and closed the book, you will definitely know that this volume has just inverse your life, and your perspective of issues like these around the world, trust me, that is a fact.
I did non like this book. Merely that's okay. You're not supposed to like information technology. Information technology's a horrible, horrible book. A trainwreck of a book. I wanted to look away, only just couldn't. I know it'due south the first part in a trilogy, but I doubt I'm going to read the other two books. It was too, too depressing. Actually, the person I got most angry with was the father. The mother was obviously ill and needed assistance. There's no other explanation for the awful things she subjected her son to. But what'due south the father'southward alibi? He merely stood by and did nothing? No, that's non true - he stood by and did cypher... and Then he abandoned the family. I don't become it. Nowhere in the book was it stated that he seemed afraid of his wife, so why did he permit her to treat their son so horribly? Yous don't just stand by and let your So practically kill your son, you simply don't! There were two things I would have liked to know: one) What made David different from the remainder of his brothers? Why was he the one who was treated so horribly? If his mother had had some kind of reason, just something that set him autonomously, it would at least exist role of an caption even if it's no excuse, but information technology seemed totally random. I guess information technology was... after all, sick people ofttimes don't need reasons for doing equally they do. two) What happened to his mother afterward? Did she get some kind of help? Were her other boys taken away from her likewise? The book ended in a cliff-hanger fashion which annoyed me. Likewise many loose ends. I don't recommend it. Most of you would never treat a child like that anyway, and if you lot would, no corporeality of reading most it would change your opinion that yous're in the 'right'. The only time I would encourage reading it is if you know somebody you fear may be subjected to kid corruption, or if you want to be convinced that you should become a foster parent.
Oh my god, what can I perchance say nigh this book? When I first started reading this book last year, I was just so hooked to it and I just wanted to know everything well-nigh this volume. It was all about this author's childhood gone horrible with the extreme abuse, the torture and suffering. I actually couldn't believe my eyes, the author described similar, everything he went through, all the pain he had to go through, how he felt and everything. I could actually understand how he felt merely one matter about this book I don't get at all is how his own mother transformed from a loving mother to a nightmarish, abusive female parent so quickly. I hateful, the author was only, like a little boy when his mother started abusing him. This book is extremely emotional and can make you feel then bad for the author and even cry so. This book was all nigh the writer's babyhood and how he survived through such corruption, starvation, and neglect. This too showed how bad things happen to good people - the author's ain begetter didn't even assist out at all - he was one time a fun, loving fireman, turned into an alcoholic, carless father. The but way for the writer to become help was through schoolhouse but the only thing that kept him from telling the school the truth was his fear of his mother going after him and make his life last through hell forever; even though the school sort of already knew, from all the bruises on him, him stealing the children's food because of hunger, from his female parent starving the author and how he constantly uses identical/unreasonable lies almost his bruises and wounds. He was pratically stabbed in the belly and had to become through such pain. His organized religion and hope kept him going & he never allow his mother win this sick game. In the end, he told the school the truth and he was finally taken out of the horrible domicile, with the abusive mother, two brothers that weren't treated horribly at all and the careless, alcoholic begetter - and put into a much better home - foster home. I loved this offset book so much that I even connected on to the next volume!
A lot of thanks goes to my teacher, for lending me the books - it's one of my near favorites!
I've sat with this volume on my desk for a couple weeks, unable to decide what I would write for a review. I'k wholly torn between this being one of my near-asked-for and least-favorite-ever titles. I wish the corporeality of times I heard "this was the first book I liked" (and the corporeality of times it's been billed/stolen from the library) corresponded to its quality, but I truly constitute it very short on redeeming qualities. Eric's Goodreads review says pretty much what I would say. The writing was cliched and the "plot" moved along by way of "one day," "one Sunday," or "afterwards." There was never whatsoever caption attempted for the mother'due south instant transformation from idyllic homemaker to barbarous abuser (unless you lot are supposed to infer that it's alcohol's fault, in which instance, talk a little about alcoholism). There is absolutely no procedure of recovery or explanation or psychological background, and the book leaves huge questions open up, saying "Please understand that many of your questions will exist answered in the next 2 books in the trilogy serial." That fabricated me want to throw it across the room. It's a great marketing gimmick for fiction, but not for a supposedly true story. That kind of self-exploitation leaves a bad taste in my mouth. As for "truth," the NYTimes article "Dysfunction for Dollars" sheds some very interesting light on Dave's story: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage... All that beingness said, I am going to endeavor to take this book for what it is: an excellent awareness-raiser about child corruption; a survival story that may help many think "if he tin can get through that, I can get through anything"; and a simple, quick, tin can't-await-away-from-the-train-wreck read that kids and teens have given a cult following. May they then motion on to something better.
Okay, this is going to be a short and sweet review since information technology's a not-fictional autobiography and you can't really critique things like characters and story. Just I'm going to say what I tin can... This book was a hard ane to read nevertheless I couldn't put it down. There's a different something in Dave's story that will keep different people reading. Mine was: Why? I wanted to know why his mother did this. I wanted to know what made her do information technology. I wanted to know how she could to it. And I wanted to know why it was Dave she picked out of him and his brothers. What made Dave the 1 she singled out for such monstrous torture. But that's something people involved in child corruption cases ask themselves every day. Yous really do feel for Dave. You don't feel with him because there are moments so bad that he has to disconnect himself. I couldn't do that while reading it though. I well-nigh felt that if I could ship my anger and frustration and sadness and promise out there it would stop. Of grade it was foolish of me seeing as it happened many years ago and he's a grown man who escaped his mothers claws. I was only annoyed by the fact that the book was as well curt and that dividing his story into iii seperate books seemed unnecessary. Specially because past the cease the reader has go so invested in Dave and feels like they're such a part of his life, they want to go with him as he continues on to the side by side, hopefully happier affiliate in his life. Maybe information technology was a publishers marketing scheme to get more coin or something. Goodness knows information technology wasn't Dave's. His goal was to tell his story, give thanks those who helped him, and open up a door to shed calorie-free on an upshot that is oftentimes hidden away. All of which he accomplished magnificently. What nosotros learn in Dave's story is that child corruption is real. It comes in many forms, just information technology'south out there and it's up to those of united states of america in the lives of children to stand up and be the voice for the driveling. Some other matter we learn is to non dorsum downwardly in that fight, of class in that location will exist road blocks, but if yous champion for a child as those special people in Dave's life did, you tin can help. You lot can salvage a life, heart, and soul. You can requite a child hope. This book is a must-read I'd say. I of class went out and got the follow-upward (I hate to use the word sequel with something like this) and read information technology right abroad. That'southward a review to follow later. If you are debating about reading this book I will just say that it is a hard read. If you're a mother information technology volition probably be especially hard. If y'all have a deep pity and dearest for children it will probably exist hard. If you yourself have experienced corruption it will probably be hard. If you only take a center it will exist hard. But don't surrender. Information technology would be even harder to simply quit in the centre, trust me on that. It's that end, despite being a outset, that will bring tears to your eyes and a much needed grin to your face.
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