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A Child Called It (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by Dave Pelzer
by Dave Pelzer
This was read to me when I was about 10 years old (maybe a year or two older).
I generally don't like books where people tell you how horrible their life was. Why would you willingly want to read about other people's misery? I at least don't get any satisfaction from it.
Misery and abuse can work in a story if it's well told and has something in it besides descriptions of torture. As far as I remember this was one of those that didn't have anything extra about it.
I don't really get why my teacher read this to my class. I guess she kept trying to show us culture by reading adult books, but she always seemed to choose the wrong ones.
I generally don't like books where people tell you how horrible their life was. Why would you willingly want to read about other people's misery? I at least don't get any satisfaction from it.
Misery and abuse can work in a story if it's well told and has something in it besides descriptions of torture. As far as I remember this was one of those that didn't have anything extra about it.
I don't really get why my teacher read this to my class. I guess she kept trying to show us culture by reading adult books, but she always seemed to choose the wrong ones.
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May 10, 2012 04:15am
What the shit, man? Who reads a 10-year-old this book?
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Yeah, I don't really get it. I think she was trying to make a point with it but I have no idea what that point was.
Im thinking people write about things like this to get if off their chest and to possibly inform people how cruel anybody has the potencial to be.."moms, dads, family and friends". I think its funny how people keep critizing the writing, when 50 shades just as porrly written but one of the best sellers. Just look past that, at the story in which a child was so poorly taken care of!
Just because books are bestsellers doesn't meant you have to accept them. I didn't like A Child Called It and I'm pretty sure I'd hate the 50 Shades of Grey series if I read it. Maybe I misunderstood your argument, because I don't really get it.
Terrible for your teacher to read this to you at such a young age. It is not even good literature in the first place. Secondly, a child who might have even experienced mild abuse who might read this would be traumatized by this all over again way before the redemptive and still painful last chapter.
