If any of you have read this book, you know how deppressing it is. Although most people would rather look the other way and say it's not happening. Well, I hate to break people back into reality, but this stuff is happening, and it's never going to go away.

i haven't read the book but i no wat it's about, n i completely agree. change is necessary

sounds like a really good book.. =]

Punkroses makes a cogent point.

oh shit paradox

weither its fake or real it still shows how capable humans are of cruelty... everything written is possible... and shows how selfish and cruel animals people can be...

be true to yourself, help others and dont follow society be kind and be a good samartian

i've never read but i have friends who have and they said they cried so i decied not to read it

I've Read this book along with the sequile and I can't say how many times I cried during this book. Its really sad how mothers and fathers could ever treat there child like this and then brain wash them into thinking they deserve it.

What you have to understand about childhood abuse. I speak from experience on this, is that a lot of times it's repressed, and so it's super hard to actually exactly say what happened.

I know I'm guilty of telling people for pity, in fact as we speak I'm writing a paper about my dad. And I know I'm selling my story for a scholarship. But it's my story and I think I have the right to do it, even if a lot of it is difficult to remember.

Me too triss, me too.

Well, if you take into the concideration that there is really no motivation to do that to a child, and most household violence has some motivation behind it. It seems that the story could indeed be exagerated.

However some household violence has no motivation behind it.

Ha, I think if I wrote my life as a book, people would say I exaggerated.

It's been around that Dave Pelzer, the author of the book, lied and exaggerated much of the story for effect. I don't know whether to believe this or not, but it's a popular belief that this book, along with "A Million Little Pieces," is a fraud.

I know, how horrible. So sad that she would make him throw up if he ate and then he went around the trashcans trying to find food to eat.

I know, the worst part is when the mom tries to burn him, I think that's the part when cried... oh that & when she shuts him in the basement or something like that, it's really been a long time since I read it.

A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer. That book made me cry. It was such a sad story. It's terrible to think someone would be capable of inflicting such pain on a child.

Maybe telling us about the book, and maybe who wrote it? If you want people to know more about "this" a description would be nice.