WHS "Tragic Life Story" section

Was in Borders at the w/e - didn't come across 'Please Daddy No' but did notice 'Daddy's Little Girl' and 'Our Little Secret'.

Have to say that I have an addiction to jewish writers, not necessarily during the war. Hence my undying love for joseph roth (not to be confused with philip roth)

I don't know, I really don't. I sound snobbish when I saythis, and I really am not a snob, but I won't have that crap in my house! Ditto BNP propaganda

Another Jewish-person-in-the-Warsaw-Ghetto one for you, Franca, even tho' you've gone to bed.

this is a true story, which has more of its fair share of heartache but is also very uplifting. If it was a novel, you'd think 'Come off it, that could never happen.'- but it did and he lived to tell the tale.

It was out of print for years but now republished. Highly recommended.

Oh, Colditz. They are woeful, aren't they? Who buys them? I can barely bring myself to read a newspaper these days because I will inadvertently read something that will haunt me for the rest of the day (at least). Why should anyone feel the need to feast on such awfulness (apart from my MIL, the ambulance chaser).

LOL

according to his website he has a robin williams wit and sense of humour (this pelzer man)

God, those awful magazines with Screamers like "Lover battered my 10 day old baby with a baseball bat - but we are still getting hitched!"

I tell you it's a political conspirancy.

Apart from Angela's Ashes (which depressed me enough) I am pleased to say I have never read another of these morbidly depressing biographies. I'm not surprised at the advent of a dedicated section as our society seems obsessed by that whole, rubbernecking car crash type of curiosity of tragic lives. Isn't there a magazine called 'Pick Me Up' or something which is the most inappropriately named magazine ever as it seems to be all 'my lover raped me, cut off my arms and left me for dead by the canal' type of stories. Who the F** wants to read that?

Mind you, Jeremy Kyle, Trisha Goddard, Ricki Lake - it's all the same shit isn't it?

FFS. I started a thread about these car-crash books a while back, and they still appear to be going strong.

I loved moondog's synopsis of them, particularly the Dave Pelzer variety .

seriously
time to go to bed!!!

\lin{http://www.amazon.co.uk/Square-Sky-Jewish-Childhood-Wartime/dp/0907871739/ref=sr_1_3/202-6831628-3446264?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179615008&sr=1-3\seriously} this is a tragic life story that is well worth reading. I read it for the first time at 12, and still find it amazing. Mostly, because it's written by a proper author.

I am thinking of writing a book on my childhood as I didn't get the huge rocking horse that used to be in the House of Fraser toy department. Even though it was the size of my room, I did tell my mother I would gladly forgo a bed for him!

Sorry, trivialising it completely but there you go.

No, it's so you can avoid the eyes!

No kidding sophable.

Now our WHS is not that big but there is a huge part of the book section devoted to this and I did have to stop myself laughing when I saw the section title. There was row upon row of books that looked alike, the front covers had the same style of photo, the same style of lettering.

I did wonder at the time at the possible popularity of these kinds of books justifying a whole section. Or maybe it is that there are so many of these books they needed to put them somewhere. After reading one though what would be the necessity of reading a book so similar?

soph, yes, local whs has been invaded by badly written accounts of extremely deprived childhood.

[intrigued emoticon]

YOU ARE JOKING?

there is really as section called this????

really????

blardy hell!

angelas ashes i agree was quite enough.

it is sort of smuggery isn't it? 'ooo, my life is so much more functional' reading?

I've only read that, adn it was wonderful - I sunk into it because the accent he writes is the same as mine, and the mother (young wife at the start) is such a strong character it sent shivers down my spine.

Nothing really happens, but so much is felt!

Colditz, yes it's Lawrence, but I'm pretty ashamed to say that i've never read anything from him

I was browsing the books in the supermarket yesterday when the lady who was stacking the shelves recommended 'Angela's Ashes'. I said I'd read it, thanks, and had no intention of reading any more of the same.

So then she started telling me about her own situation i.e. that she was abused as a child and how she was waiting for the court case, etc and that these things certainly do happen. I assured her that I didn't disbelieve her, or Dave Peltzer et al, but I really didn't need to read about these things to acknowledge they went on and feel sorry for the victims.

I couldn't get away from her quickly enough.
I suppose if these books give people the courage to go to the police, even tho years have passed, or if they just make folk feel they are not alone, they fulfill a need, but still....surely saturation has been reached.

I think I have the title right anyway. I also think it is by D H Lawrence.

But I will have to check that tonight.

Haven't read that one

I preferred Sons and Lovers.