A man named Dave - Dave Pelzer

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 has written another book, this is the last one in the series concerning his life. As a child he dreamt of being Superman. How he would fly and be free. Free from 'The Mother' as he called her. As he lay on his cold, hard, army cot, he would dream of a ... more

I would just like to write a review on 'A Man Named Dave', the third book in a series of three by Dave Pelzer that chart hhis difficult life and upbringing. If you find reading about child abuse and suchlike distressing, or it has happened to you then I would strongly suggest that you do no read this unless you feel that you are able to cope with it. As you all well know, his first two books ('A Child Called It', and 'The Lost Boy') chart his life growing up. First off, we see how his life quite dramatically changed whilst living at home with his natural birth family. In the second installment ... more

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 on some counts, and I’m not ashamed to admit it. In the third book in the Pelzer ‘trilogy’ the life of Dave is told from his late teens until the time of writing, and his self-confessed state of happiness and contentment with his self ... more

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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 emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games with her son's life; games his father chose to ignore and which the outside world knew nothing about A Man Named Dave is an inspiring story of terror, recovery and hope and ... more