My take on the book is very good. I enjoyed the book very well it was a happy in the beginning and then it got sad and heart felt this book is very great and I would recommend it to anybody. Dave Pelzer had a very sickening mother never in a million years would I ever treat my child the way his mother did she needed to be in a psych ward if you ask me cause she was just straight crazy.If he could see this message i just want to say I'm sorry for everything he went through and that he didn't have a chance to grow up with a stable home and a loving mother like most kids have. I really wish this book would become a movie because it would be the best movie of the year and he would make a lot of money off of it. And even though you getting all this money I know it could never take the pain from what she did to you away. I just hope that you have a better life now and im glad you are away from that thang you called a mother. AND LIKE I SAID I REALLY HOPE THIS BECOMES A MOVIE THAT GIVE YOU ANY IDEAS.