Man Named Dave, A - David Pelzer Reviews

Dave Pelzer's book - A Man Named Dave - is his third book about his life. The first book, 'A Child Called It' covered his childhood and how he survived the extreme physical and mental abuse he received from his Mother. The second book, 'The Lost Boy', covers his teenage years and his 5 foster homes. This book covers his adult life. Although his ...

I read A Called It and The Lost Boy with a degree of interest. For those that don't know, Dave Pelzer was abused as a child by his emotionally unstable alcoholic mother. She starved him, beat him, forced him to be her slave and even tortured him by forcing him to drink ammonia, holding his arm over the flame on the cooker and locking him in ...

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I've just finished reading the trilogy, and what can I say, what an amazing man. This final book charts his life from age 18 and his struggle to come to terms with the abuse he suffered from his mother as a child. His mother and father have split up and he has no contact with his mother at all at this time. His father is a ...

So here we have it, the final book in the trilogy about a Man Named Dave, called IT by his ‘mother’ who abused him in the most appalling way I have ever read about. Tissues are a necessity to read the final chapter of Dave’s life….. From the early stages of childhood, Dave was brutally beaten and starved by his ...

So, the end of the Pelzer story has reached a conclusion (for now, anyhow). I still have my doubts about the capabilities and the reasoning behind the existence, quality and validity about the story of Dave Pelzer. Not, in the sense of how true his story is, but of why it was written and the way in which it was told. But my mind has been changed ...

For someone who has suffered horrendous exploits at the hand of his mother, this book is a huge achievement. Yet do we really need to know in increment details of his failed marriage to Pasty and word for word conversations and arguments between people? Apart from that bit of criticism I felt the book was a good read. I thought ...

Have you ever had a day when you seem to spend the whole time shouting at the kids and picking on them for what they do wrong? Do you go to bed that night feeling guilty and like the worst person in the world? Well if you have ever felt like that then this book could change both your opinion on yourself as a parent, and the courage and strength ...

"It takes a community to save a child" A man named Dave - the final instalment of the trilogy (see below) - charts the author's path from eighteen to middle age. Until the age of 11, Dave Pelzer was severely tortured, both physically and emotionally by his mother. His father remained passive and unreceptive to his ...

This is the third book in the triology about Dave's life. This deals with Dave the man, who is a product of his childhood. I have just finished this book and was not suprised to read how his childhood had impacted on his adulthood. Dave clearly shows how his early life has affected his ability to make and sustain relationships. He ...