My Story - Dave Pelzer

My Story by Dave Pelzer is a trilogy which includes A Child Called "It", The Lost Boy and A Man Named Dave. I first heard about A Child Called "It" a few years ago after I had read a book called The Kid, by Kevin Lewis. I had mentioned the book, written about the abuse he suffered as a child at the hands of his parents, to a friend who told me I should also read A Child Called "It". She told me that it was a similar story, written about the harrowing ...
...decided to buy this book, My Story. The book is widely available both used and new, online and in good book stores. The cover price of the paperback book I purchased is £7.99, although a search online will of course bring this book up much cheaper, which is what I did. The book is 490 pages long in total, which includes all 3 books in the trilogy. Please be aware before I get going with the story, if you haven't already read this book, there may ...

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Dave Pelzer was born in 1961, Daly City, California to parents Catherine Roerva Pelzer and father Stephen Joseph Pelzer. He lived a happy life with his two brothers and life was perfect, until one day he became the hated one of his family and his school, abused horrifically by his mother whilst his father and brothers looked on and did nothing to help…in fact he is now known in history as one of the most abused children in California for that ...
...Called It’, ‘The Lost Boy’ and ‘A Man called Dave’ run through his life depicting all the events that have shaped him to become the person he is today. Ultimately he is a fighter and his story has captured millions of hearts and offered help to so many since its publication. Now we have all three memoirs placed into one volume, the cover design of which features the three sepia photographs that adorn each of the singular ...

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The book I am reviewing is entitled 'My story'. It is written by Dave Pelzer, an American, in 2000 and published by Orion Books. It describes the continuous physical and psychological abuses he experienced during the first twelve years of his life, in the 1970s. The book was originally written as three different books under different titles (The Child called 'IT', The Lost Boy and A Man named Dave), but has now been made into one book - "My Story". ...
...(A child called 'IT'), Dave Pelzer takes the reader through the different stages of his life. He tells us about the abuse he suffered at the hands of his mother. There were several occasions when she locked him in the bathroom with a mixture of ammonia and Clorox and left him in there to suffer for an hour. He also talks about how he tried to overcome the horrors of his abuse. In the second part of the book, (The lost boy), Dave tells us about how ...

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...one about his youth. MY STORY This is a trilogy of A child called "it", The lost boy and a man named Dave. A CHILD CALLED IT This part of the book lasts for 84 pages and introduces the reader to Dave as a young boy living with his mother and father and brothers in Daly City, California. The first chapter introduces us to the abuse from his mother and the day he is rescued by a dilligent police officer. Thereafter we are taken back to see what ...
...more to the trilogy of books that I have not included in my review for fear of droning on too much more, so I would highly recommend reading this book if you think you can stomach a true life encounter of child abuse and triumph in the face of adversity. ...

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My Story is the heartbreaking autobiography of David Pelzer. Born in America in the early 60's, David started his life in what seemed to be a happy family. Things changed suddenly for David when his mum turned against him, abusing him both mentally and physically. His siblings, (he had four altogether) seemed to get off lightly in Davids view and often joined in with his mothers abuse of him, and his father did little to halt his mother from beating ...
...the years went by, with his mum forcing him to live in the basement, wear old and dirty clothes, and at times forcing him to do things no child should ever have to do, such as drink pure amonia. The book chronicals Davids move into foster care at age twelve after seven years of abuse, and he also talks of how he was moved from pillar to post, the bad crowd he fell into, and his teenage years as he acted rather delinquently. Things look brighter for ...

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...and admire Dave with all my heart. Its a book you cannot put down even if you want to. Its writen in a way that is easy to read. A friend of mine lent the book to me and I have since ordered his other books online. This book can also be bought online from Amazon, hard back version is 14.99 GBP, but I noticed that you can also buy good second hand ones for a fraction of the cost. It is hard to comprehend that someone so young survived the childhood ...
...of strength. I found my moods swinging and unable to continue at times until my eyes dried. I was flitting between adult and childhood memories most of the time and defined a lot of feelings that I myself have gone through over many years. A numerous amount of unanswered questions and why's can be related to. I admire the way in which Dave was able to tell his Mother to go in peace, after everything she did and put him through. It takes a very ...

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...put this book down without my falling asleep and it being prized from my grasp. It was simply fantastic. Now the nature of this book regularly transported me from one emotional extreme to another and back again. For much of the time I was in a very sombre mood due to the horrific and upsetting abuse inflicted on David, by his own Mother and subsequently by a father he thought of as his protector and prospective saviour for many years. A father who ...
...acts that took place daily in the home - who upped and left not a moments notice. This formed the basis of the first part of the triology and much of the second. After being saved from this unbelieveable life and sent to several foster homes, David became a temperamental teenager, haunted mentally and still bearing the physical scars from the years of harrowing abuse. Thankfully I did go on to experience the pure joy and positivity that radiated ...

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...a trained writer, which, in my opinion, at times shows in the way he plotted his autobiography, he has, very successfully, managed to reach his audience in a very graphical way when descibing his, so called, mother's "sick games". For the more sensitive readers: Be warned of the very realistic approach taken to the book. It might be very hard to read at times,this coming from a fellow sensitive reader, since as I have already mentioned before, ...

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Dave Pelzer well what can i say its not since sleepers have i read a book that i cannot put down and it wasnt just his first book a child called it, it was all of them once i started i couldnt stop they all had me in floods of tears! to believe he had gone through all of it and survived and has taught himself somehow not to hate. a book that made me realise just how lucky i have been and left me wondering if it had been me would i have got through ...
...i could. david has written this book in a way that would leave the most hard hearetd of people in floods of tears! a book to buy and to treasure and book that will leave you wondering how this man could have lived through all of this and ended up with a lovely wife a family of his own and to become free of the past he has endured a brave man a man who i would much love to meet! ...

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...the triology of Dave Pelzers My Story, I simply could not put the book down. From beginning to end it is a heart-wrenching true story of a boy who suffers the most horrific tortue at the hands of his Mother. Even though the third book in the trilogy is about Dave as a man, it is still obvious that he never could escape the feelings which he carried with him about his past, which, at points, reverted him back to feeling like the child his mother imprisoned ...
...the punishments his mother gave him for failing to hit targets which she made and that she knew were impossible, especially to a boy who was at deaths door for most of his childhood. This book was, for me, the most insightful thing I had ever read and was telling everyone about for weeks!! I truly recommend this book to anyone as it captures even the most cold heart and makes you wonder how anyone could be so cruel to a young child. With every page ...

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...going to review is called My Story, an autobiography written by an American called David Pelzer. The Story was orginally released as 3 seperate stories but now has been combined to make My Story.I bought this book around a year ago and from the moment i started to read it i couldnt put it down. This book is based on a true story and throughout most of the book i could feel my eyes filling up with tears. It is about a young boy tortured,humiliated ...

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This trilogy shows a man growing from strength to strength as he over comes the tragedy of the abuse in his youth. Dave Pelzer's imagery and language gives a clear picture of what he went through as achild, without the accusatory air that normally come from these biographies. It is a hearty wrenching story of a little boy in the midst of violent world, and will not have anyone unmoved, a box of tissues is definately required to accompany it. It's ...

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...so thats why I bought My Story.) The harback version of My Story is available from Amazon for £14.99. Other books similar to this one which I would recommend are Sickened by Julie Gregory and One Child by Torey Hayden. This story stays with you for long after you have put it down- a very insperational read written by a very admirable man. ...

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This is a fantastic, if shocking read. As it is 3 seperate Books put into one, some parts may feel a bit repetitive if read one after another in a short space of time. Each of the 3 books is a unputdownable. Once you are drawn into the weird and surreal world of this family, which enables the childabuse to happen, it's hard to let go. The first Book ( A child called "IT") is mainly about Daves childhood and the abuse and neglect that he received ...
...at such a young age is shocking . He also discribes his coping mechanisms which are amazing, but had to be amazing in order for him to survive it all. In the 2. Book (The Lost Boy) , Dave mainly talks about his life in Fostercare, but also relives some of the memories from his early childhood. As expected life doesn't suddenly become easy, just because he is safe from the cruelty that his mother used to inflict on him. "A man named Dave" the 3. ...

realjolie 29.01.2007 · Read full review
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a fantastic book involving heart retching memories and stories of real life survival, a story of a young boy growing up at the hands of his abusive mother, day in and day out, I began reading this book as part of research for an A level English assignment on child abuse, butas i began to read this book i found it very hard to put down. I found it a very emotional and visual book that can not be faulted. It really makes you think about how this kind ...

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