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Advantages: Insperational reading
Disadvantages: None

...on my travels. Now, 21 may seem to some people a very young age to write a biography, but with a rock star father and very successful mother you can imaging the hectic lifestyle this boy has had. THE BOOK There are 11 chapter in the book which are as follows:- 1 - The Kids are Alright The chapter starts by giving us an insight into his childhood. He talks about all of the different nannies which the family have had and gives a quite comical ...
...weirdo's. He goes on to describe his childhood Christmas' and Birthdays. 2 - A Family Affair In this chapter Jack openly admits to being a big Daddy's boy and gives his own account of the night when his Dad tried to kill his Mom. He talks about how he used to stand and watch his Dad taking drugs. We are treated to a funny account of how he shot his sister Kelly in the leg and how he tagged along on his Dad's tours and how he and his sisters used ... Read review

Advantages: feel waht the writer is feeling.
Disadvantages: some parts bring you close to crying/vomiting

a truly heartfelt story of a boy who is physically abused by his alcoholic mother. she treated him like a slave & made him know as 'it', he was no longer a child but a thing that she could control who was so naive & weak. many times managing to put him on the edge of death & injuring him to such an extent. you really feel dave pelzers misery & pain the way he describes the things he had to go through & how he found it so hard to stop hoping & loving ... Read review

Advantages: Dozens of delicious and dodgy dinners
Disadvantages: It's vegetarian hell!

...this swaggering, gung-ho account of a year-long global culinary gross-out, he despatches, or witnesses the bloody deaths of, a pig, a lamb, several rabbits, a turkey and a cobra. I wasn't totally surprised by the carnage. I had read Bourdain's previous, autobiographical 'Kitchen Confidential'. He describes that book as "an obnoxious and overtestosteroned account of my life in the restaurant business". It was all that and more. It took the reader ...
...was never going to be a genteel affair. If American celebrity chef Bourdain is not totally honest in his justifications for the brutal, foulmouthed world of the restaurant kitchen, he is at least open about his motivation for writing 'A Cook's Tour'. On the back of the success of 'Kitchen Confidential' he persuades an editor to allow him a culinary grand tour. Ostensibly 'in search of the perfect meal' (the book's subtitle), he would get to play ... Read review

Advantages: a personal story of a mothers in turmoil
Disadvantages: none

...sadly murdered by Roy Whiting a known sex offender.. The book follows Sara & Michael's story from before Sarah's birth taking you through their feelings of having a girl after already having two sons on a low income, all through Sarah's early childhood... you get a sence of knowing the family quite well through the early chapters... The book then turns to that dreadfull day in July (july 1st, 2000) from the children playing happily on the beach in ...
...that Sarah's body was found... a very very traumatising day for the family, through this book Sara talks of her pain anger and frustrations following Sarah's abduction.. you learn of the marriage troubles depression and terrible times they all went through all whilst in the public eye. Sara tells of her quest to get Sarah's Law passed in government and the problems that arose during this.. Also we are taken upto and passed the trial of Roy Whiting. ... Read review

Advantages: Compelling
Disadvantages: N/A

This is the first book I've read from Anya Peters, my daughter-in-law gave it to me to read. Through reading it all my emotions surfaced, parts of it shocked me, other parts amused me and it also made me cry, but I couldn't stop reading it although I was sickened by events in the book. Anya Peters has captured what it was like to be an outcast and to not belong to a family unit, although she suffered mental and physical abuse from her cousins, who ...
...loved them and wanted to be a part of their family, but she was never really accepted. This book is not for the faint hearted and if you don't like to read of cruelty, deprivation and hate then you had better leave it alone because this is real life, Anya's real life and it wasn't pretty. She was abused by her Uncle in a very depraved way and this book tells it as it was in sickening detail, it also deals with a family's shame about what has happened ... Read review