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CINDER · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject:

I do read a lot of True Crime novels, mostly John Douglas(one of creators of F.B.I. profiling) and Anne Rule.

Not sure if I can bring myself to read ones like Daddy's Little Girl, especially the parts of her happenings as a child. My mother-in-law read Child Called IT and found it difficult to forget.

Overview of Child Called IT:
David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care, and somewhat nurturant to her children--but not to David, whom she referred to as "an It." This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved, stabbed, smashed face-first into mirrors, forced to eat the contents of his sibling's diapers and a spoonful of ammonia, and burned over a gas stove by a maniacal, alcoholic mom. Sometimes she claimed he had violated some rule--no walking on the grass at school!--but mostly it was pure sadism. Inexplicably, his father didn't protect him; only an alert schoolteacher saved David. One wants to learn more about his ordeal and its aftermath, and now he's written a sequel, The Lost Boy, detailing his life in the foster-care system.
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Serenity · CC&S Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 4496

I read all three of his books, they were so tragic, but once again compelling reading, I couldn't put them down. Makes your own stories of childhood horror pale into insignificance.
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ImBlonde · Member Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 87

I've decided to read the Harry Potter books for the millionth time Smile

Serenity · CC&S Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 4496

As much as I love the films, I tried to read the first book and really couldn't get into it, weird huh Shocked

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Jodie · CC&S Joined: 08 May 2008 Posts: 127

im currently reading sleeping around
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Shelley · CC&S Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 276

Is it any good Jodie ? If you finish it soon, I'll borrow it to read by the pool whilst I'm holidaying Smile