David Zeman

Advantages: Good story. Could it be possible?
Disadvantages: Disjointed beginning. Tends to ramble a bit.

...This is David Zeman's first novel, and shows distinct promise for the future, despite being a litle difficult to read at first. THE PLOT After the prologue, which plays very little part in the main plot but is nevertheless essential reading, the story starts with three sub-plots. 1. A mysterious illness starts affecting small town USA, where people lose the ability to speak or move, or communicate in any way (AND NOT JUST TEENAGERS). 2. Colin Goss, mega-rich owner of a pharmaceutical company and rampant fascist, mounts a very real and powerful threat to the incumbent president. 3. Michael Campbell, an olympic hero, is rapidly gaining prowess and stature within the government. As the illness spreads across America and around the world, with health organisations unable to find a cause or cure, Colin Goss gains support for his campaign... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Everything

...The Author of this book is called David Pelzer. In David’s case he is the only one out of three worst cases on child abuse in California state history that survived to tell the story of child abuse. The title of the book is “A child called it” In the book “A child called it” we take a look at the kind of life David had living with his mother from the ages of 4 to 12. David’s young life had been a fairly normal one, until he reached the age of four. Then things changed forever. In his true story he gives versions of the true events that took place in his family home. When David was four, his mother unintentionally broke his arm whilst she was in one of her drunken states. David was taken upstairs to bed, but he was put in the top bunk of the bunk beds instead of his usual place on the bottom bunk. The next morning, she told him... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: Well written, fascinating subject
Disadvantages: -

...King David is hailed in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament as the greatest of the kings of the Israelites, the model of kingship, and the forerunner of messiahship. Later ideas of the messiah often focused upon David; most who claimed to be the messiah in later times would look to the military and political aspects to support their claim; even Jesus, who eschewed the idea of an earthly kingdom, nonetheless had David as a primary image. Some see David as a mythological figure. Certainly the image projected of him and the shadow this character casts over subsequent Israelite and biblical history is one of mythic proportions. Partly the constructs around David have become so strangely skewed that one asks the question, as the literature both in the biblical texts and later developments can lead one to asking the question, 'can any one man... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful