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Posts: 5051 · Posted: December 10, 2007 11:08 pm Post subject: A Child Called It

Has anyone else read this book..

I think it's sooo sad!
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I have this book, but I haven't read it in ages. It was really sad though Sad

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I read it. It is incredibley sad. I couldn't even imagine living that kind of existence. It is worse than Harry's childhood, and I want to cry every time I read the first few chapters of SS. I cried like a baby when I read A Chile Called It.
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Posts: 2534 · Posted: December 11, 2007 12:58 am Post subject:

I've heard a ton about it, but haven't read it yet myself. It looks so sad though! Crying

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Posts: 5051 · Posted: December 11, 2007 8:12 pm Post subject:

If you have not read it.. I recommend reading it.. if only to alert people to the horrors of child abuse.

This book is the reason that I am going in to Social Work.

It is extremely sad. and will probably have most people who read it in tears. I know i was in tears when i read it.
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Posts: 2534 · Posted: December 11, 2007 10:48 pm Post subject:

I'm sure i will when i read it, i cry at almost every book i read. (yes, HP included.)
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Posts: 1980 · Posted: December 11, 2007 11:52 pm Post subject:

What is it about?
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Posts: 10036 · Posted: December 12, 2007 12:20 am Post subject:

a boy and his struggles. It is sad. I don't think i cried though... but, yeah, anyone who hasn't already read this book needs to.
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It is about a boy who is abused as a child. His mother just sort of slowly went crazy, his dad just sort of faded out instead of dealing with the problems at home. Dave's mother started referring to him as it. She starved him, made him sleep in a dog bed in the garage, and left him in the bathroom with a bathtub full of pnemonia for long periods of time until her would faint from the fumes. These are just a few things that I could remember. These things went on for years until an adult from his school actually took notice of Dave's conditiona and called social services. There were two sequals to this book: The Lost Boy and A Man Named Dave.
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Posts: 28373 · Posted: December 12, 2007 9:28 am Post subject:

man i couldnt imagine this! the kid's ordeal was horrible! honestly if i had a mother like that... and what kind of a father is that? such a pussy.
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Posts: 5051 · Posted: December 13, 2007 12:57 am Post subject:

I agree. I dont know what I would of done with a mother and Father like that. It's a horrible thought to think.
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Posts: 10036 · Posted: December 14, 2007 12:06 am Post subject:

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^ I looked it up, and there is one caleed The Privelege of youth. There is also a book by his brother called A Brother's Journey. It is about what happened after David was taken out of the house. I don't understand why social services would take only the abused child and leave the others with the abuser.
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Posts: 1048 · Posted: December 15, 2007 10:55 pm Post subject:

i love that book... its so sad... it makes me apreciate my own parents more
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I keep seeing it at the store and have considered buying it but never did. Maybe I should add it to my x-mas list.
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So many people I know have read it but I haven't gotten around to reading it myself! I should soon.
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Posts: 5051 · Posted: December 18, 2007 5:58 pm Post subject:

Yeah everyone should read it.. It's a very good book.. Very sad..
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i have read it. it makes me cry AT LEAST once throughout the book. sometimes more. there are more by/about dave pelzer as well: 'the lost boy' and then 'a man called dave'