Richard Zacks

Advantages: A fantastic book
Disadvantages: You won't be able to put it down!

...An Underground Education is written by Richard Zacks and is a treasury of information that you might not have seen anywhere else. The book has an outrageously long subtitle: "the unauthorised and outrageous supplement to Everything you Thought you Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge." Is that sub-title I any way accurate? Yes. It is. The book is an interesting collection of disparate yet fascinating facts about many different fields of knowledge. The introduction reveals Zacks to be a very interesting person. Certainly he is as interesting as you would suspect the author of such a wonderful book to be. He decided to flunk college. And then proceeded to find professors in Italy who would teach him what he wanted to know. His plan to learn Italian at Perugia University... Read review

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Advantages: The true worth of a spirit. A Triumphant ending.
Disadvantages: The Horrors disadvantages and shame of Abuse

...THE BROTHER OF "A CHILD CALLED IT" SPEAKS UP AT LAST! YEEEESSS !!!!!!! This was my thoughts as I picked the biography out from the shelves of glossy romantics,jokes and all things light. I don't know why I was so drawn to yet another harrowing tale of a lost childhood..but as soon as I saw the surname "Peltzer "I knew I'd discovered someting precious yet so awful all at the same time that I had to have it. Just over a week ago,I saw this biography in the top ten best sellers on the shelves of Asda. It is a light book to handle and I wasn't expecting the rather short in comparison 18 chapter layout. After leafing through the front and back cover the afterword,and the small section about the author who is now married I bought it at once.- The author takes your eye because this is Richard Peltzer; the older brother who... Read review

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Advantages: gives you information about Richard Pelzer
Disadvantages: dont know.

...When I first read Richard Pelzers book I couldn't help but feel that he saw what reaction his brother got from 'A Child Called It' and decided to make a fortune himself, but as you read the book you see what he went through because David wasn't there. He was born in 1965 Daly City, San Mateo County, California and was number four of five sons. His books are all about the abuse he recieved from his mother when his older brother David was taken away by the authorities, but unlike David, Richard never was taken away by them and had to suffer with that abuse for most of his childhood. There has apparently been a big fued between Richard and his brother because David's said he's making it all up, just for the money, but Richard's defended himself saying he'd rather give all the money to charity, that's where me and my brother... Read review

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