Reading Lovely Bones at the suggestion of a coworker first few pages and i've already cried WTF?!
I read part of Lovely Bones a few years ago. Although I was well aware that it was a chic book, I decided to check it out. I thought it was very good during the first half, but eventually just lost interest and eventually stopped reading it.
I started 'Crime and Punishment" but I can't do it. 40 pages was enough for me.
Too many Russian names, everything blurred together like my wedding day.
So I got a hard cover version of Clive barker's 'Cabal' off eBay for 5 bucks total!
Now that college football is over for a few weeks I can start reading it.
I attempted to read "War and Peace" by Tolstoy but gave up after 100 pages. Russian literature can be so difficult with all the characters, the names, and parallel plot lines. I've began reading some of Chekhov's stuff which I have found very enjoyable.
yes, i i love how it was worded as a child might have told the story. its not often i start a book and cant put it down till i finish it but that was one of them. it just amazed me what that kid went through and came out alive
i`m thinking about going to get the other one "the lost boy". i heard its not as good as "the child called it" but i still want to read it. i might actually stop off at the library on my way home tomarrow and pick it up
Yea, I read the two books that you and SouthofHeaven mentioned. "The Lost Boy" is about Pelzer's experience after he is taken away from his home and put into foster homes. "A Man Named Dave" is about Pelzer's life after being released from the foster system and getting married etc.
To tell you the truth, I don't really like the direction that David Pelzer took with his later books. He's since written a self-help book that I heard was garbage. While I have the utmost sympathy for what he went through, I think he's a professional sufferer and exploits his situation.