To be read

Released on Tuesday, October 26, 2004 at about 11:00:00 AM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at by mail in on loan, On Loan Controlled Releases.

RELEASE NOTES:

Loaned to Drutt, in return for A Lost Boy. Happy Reading.

Thanks for the book FiBe. I'll read it soon and get it back to you so that you can read the whole series in order.

Half way through this book I was glad to be getting closure on Dave Pelzer's story. I liked how a sad story was coming to a more satisfactory outcome.

As I got further on, though, I found I had a lot more niggles with this book than the other two.

Themes are repeated to the point of irritation, the arguments and conversations described are just too expressive and neat to seem real, and he really seems to engage in a fair amount of exaggeration (I'm referring to how he writes about his adult life, not commenting on his childhood story).

What struck me was just how much we heard about how he nearly passed out/hyperventilated on occasions, how little sleep he got, how hard he worked blah, blah and how it seemed that even as he was writing about his adult life he was still seeking the approval he sought as a child, which I found quite sad.

He seemed scared to describe the mundane in a mundane way, seemed to over-dramatise everything and actually made the 3rd book less believable than the first two. I guess my cynicism probably says a lot more about me than about his book. :)

Anyway, for someone who's read the first two books, it's definitely worth reading this book in order to get the complete story. As a stand alone book, I'm not sure I'd recommend it.

I've finally braved the blizzard and sent this back to FiBe today. Sorry for the delay in returning it.

Received today, thanks drutt! I will get round to reading the Lost Boy and this one soon!

I agree with Drutt I'm afraid my cynicism got the better of me. When reading the arguements that took place even though he was saying he was to blame for most of them the way it was written made you feel like he didn't believe he was to blame and it was all the other persons fault (especially the arguements about money).

I'm glad I have finally read the whole trilogy though. I was going to release them as a whole via a bookray but no one has shown any interest!