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Continuity of dates - Rated
As the author of this book, I want to thank J Kisseih for his very constructive comments about the dates. Because of the lack of continuity this made him question the validity of the other details. This personally saddened me a great deal. As the author of this book, I can assure him that everything went through a very stringent editing process where all details were carefully looked into. Several books in this genre have proven to have elaborate lies in them and so publishers have to be vigilant and rightly so. In fact, with my book, there were some incidents that I wanted to put in that the publisher rejected because we did not have enough documentary evidence. So I hope that any small editing errors did not deter from any pleasure he or any other reader derived from reading the book. I wrote this book to share my experiences, help myself and give some small inspiration to others. I hope you get that too.
A good read but with certain reservations - Rated
David Thomas records several dates incorrectly in this book (ie. the date he was born against events and/or the ages of people that he recounts during his life) and because of that I began to disbelieve that his story was actually a factual and honest account of his life. I am still not entirely convinced that I believe everything he has written. However his account of his life as a criminal in the latter part of the book seems very believable. What is strange is that EVERY incidence of his mother's sexual abuse of him is written in italics as if to emphasise the sinister aspect of his life and I am inclined to believe that he has perhaps embellished on what was somewhat more sporadic abusive behaviour by his mother than he has chosen to portray.
heartbreaking - Rated
Well written biography by David Thomas detailing his life with an alcoholic mother who sexually abused him and later on in his life suffered further physical abuse by his step father.
Heartbreaking read, David's childlike memories of his horrific abuse by his mother are very hard to read about nevermind experience and the reader can only feel extremely sorry for David.
Highly recommended - the author should be proud of himself in finding the courage to write this book. I wish him continued success.
A Talented Memory - Rated
The early section of this short book is heart-rending when recollecting the abusive episodes of both of Thomas's parents and outside of the abuse, how they essentially let him down as parents. In the same vein as Duncan Fairhurst's Our Little Secret, it goes on to describe a slide into crime as one means of escape from both physical and sexual abuse. Perhaps because the level of criminality didn't extend beyond the minor, the latter half feels skirted over - there's no detail of any further treatment which David Thomas used to recover from his experience other than joining the Fire Brigade and the other newly found talents which led to his new career. That implies a potential follow-on book. This one is well written enough that I would welcome it, I was looking out for Tell Me Why's release and that's probably why I read it very quickly despite its 271 pages. I'll re-read it again a little more slowly...
