A very important book about the journey of a survivor...

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	• A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness Dave Pelzer Plume, 2000 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 220 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

inspirational and humbling

I learned or relearned many life lessons as I read this book. It is amazing that this strong human being still feels so unworthy of so much. He should realize he is a beacon to many. I found this book encouraging and mind opening. It kind of reminds one not to sweat the small stuff, and to learn from our and others mistakes. Not to allow anger to build in us and to forgive others. Not only does this repair relationships and allow us to move ahead in our journeys through life, but it frees us from much uneeded luggage. The way David has used his experiences to help others is wonderful. He should have been a father to many, he sounds like a great dad. His words are written clearly, and with true feeling. As a reader you can feel his pain, excitement and joy. His faith and strenth in God is unending. A book many can learn from.

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A very important book about the journey of a survivor...

This book with make your gut ache & your eyes water endlessly. Dave's story of survival is a remarkable one, & books like this one are important in shedding a light on the cruelties inflicted on children DAILY in our country. So many of us would love to believe that these don't happen...or that they happen "somewhere else," but they happen everyday...EVERY day....next door, down the street. Did you know that children die EVERY day in our country at the hands of child abuse? It is an epidemic of monstrous proportions, & books like Peltzer's shed a light on that epidemic...that plague. People don't like talking about this subject, but it is so vastly important that we do start talking about it....cut the monster's feet out from under him. Thank you to Peltzer & authors like him that write the painful words to share their painful stories to cause people to talk about the painful epidemic that is America's. (Did you know that more children die EVERY year in the hands of child abuse than the total number of people who died in 9-11 & Pearl Harbor combined? America must wage a war against child predators!))

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I am so glad I did

I bought this book as well as Nightmares Echo. I am so glad I did. I cryed through most of this book, but I could not put it down. Indeed this author had/has courage beyond his years. In todays time, With people facing far less than this child went through...they run,they hide...they can not cope. But this child lives on and becomes someone special...in our world today. Opening our eyes to what has been going on around us. I rate this highly!! Janice

Dave Pelzer is one extraordinairy hero!

First let me ask this of you: why on heaven's earth hasn't Dave yet been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? Firstly, i read Dave's first book at a very difficult period in my own life, where i was confronting my own personal history. His in depth descriptions of his struggle to survive and heartfelt aspirations for both himself, his son Stephen, his new bride Marsha and those he met and is no longer involved with is so deeply moving and so honest. In this book, the third book Dave had written, we learn to see the real route of recovery that brings you to the heart of one amazing survivor. He lets you into his own private world, enchanting you in a text about his own personal discoveries and triumphs, who he becomes and who he always longs to be. i laughed and cried and cheered for Dave with all of my heart. His accomplishments far surpass that of any regular hero even, and the honesty and genuine care that he puts into these books is far beyond astounding. i actually sent my books to Dave himself & they came back lovingly signed, not more than one month after i sent them. He reminds me of what is real and true and just in what's become of people who have survived unbelievable odds and come out a beautiful person. i only wish that i were rich to give him and his family a giant castle to overlook the Russian River. Dave Pelzer could write a paragraph and it wouold be filled with chilling honesty and love. His bravery and discoveries with putting his willingness to forgive his abuser is both heart rendering and renewing of an incredible fighter, by no means the boy he was once labeled as by ignorant classmates or onlookers.

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A Story of Triumph Over Tragedy

I began reading Dave Pelzer's books after seeing him in an appearence on the Montel Williams Show nearly seven years ago. His story was so heartbreaking I felt compelled to buy his book A Child Called It. Now in his last book of the trilogy, A Man Named Dave, Dave Pelzer takes us from age 18 to present day as we learn of his joys and sorrows and ultimately his triumph over such a tragic childhood.

Dave Pelzer is an inspiration to us all and I feel that anyone who needs a boost or finds themselves wallowing in their own self pity should read this book and see what you can do when you put your mind to it.

I particuarly enjoy the story about how Dave Pelzer meets his wife and found myself reading that section over and over again because it is so sweet.

A very enjoyable book full of love, sadness and eventually joy, this is a book everyone should read.

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