A Man Named Dave - David Pelzer Reviews

This book is the one where we see Dave Pelzer finally getting his life back. It doesn't focus on the horrible childhood he endured but more on his determination to have a different life and how he finally turned it all around. This book is truly an inspiration to anyone who has suffered abuse and shows that things can be different with a little ...  Read the complete review

In all the previous books Dave explains his dreams of what he wants to be. Dave now tells the story of how his childhood affects his adult life. Dave's childhood affects him in many ways even being a grown man has many battles to overcome and his past will never be forgotten. Dave explains how after a big struggle he ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

The Real Story - Advantages: understanding, empathy, forgiveness - Disadvantages: none

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

"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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review