- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (30 Aug 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0297853066
- ISBN-13: 978-0297853060
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.4 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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61,528 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #28 in Books > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Families & Parents > Fatherhood
- #32 in Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Gender Studies > Men
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Cosmo Landesman, The Sunday Times
"A moving and hilarious account of an angry dad."
Will Self, Author & Journalist
"...fiercely intelligent, charmingly foul-mouthed and a fantastic turn of phrase"
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16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but gone to his head!,
By Mark Simpson (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fathers 4 Justice (Hardcover)
Good book, but none of it could have been done without the dads who risked life and liberty. Family court hell by Mark Harris and Denied Access by (Spiderman) Dave Chick are much better reads and these guys realy were let down by the system, not like Matt who basically was unfit as he admits to be around his kids.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Read it and weep...and laugh and gasp in horror.,
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This review is from: Fathers 4 Justice (Hardcover)
This book does not so much "sweep you along" but runs up behind you, kicks your backside with a pointed steel cap boot then grabs you by your belt loops. By the end of the book, if your brain is still functioning properly and you have quelled the sick feeling in your stomach from the offensive stench that is family law, then you will be more than happy to slip your slightly out of condition physique into a lycra suit and march along on the campaign trail with this band of brothers (and sisters).
This style of campaign group and founder (even with all his faults) were a head of their time with ideas, creativity, stunts, humour and PR, and other issue campaign groups could learn a few lessons too. Forget bland modern history books, schools and colleges should be grabbing this book with both hands as its ticks so many boxes; marketing, pr, design, history, sociology, politics, current affairs. Reviews that claim this book is bland and dull are seriously short of the mark. Its written in full spectrum Technicolor. What these negative comments about this book seem to miss is that this book could never be a nicey nicey happy ever after book praising every dad who ever made contact with F4J, just look at the subject matter. What's the use of a book and a campaign group designed to raise awareness if the founder hides in a cupboard with his lycra tights and is only ever best friends with everyone he meets. Its these very points that makes this book so good. This book is designed to pick you up and shake you till the penny drops, the language is controversial, the subject is controversial, the author is controversial but he's got your attention hasn't he!!! Before F4J no one was listening. This book finds the raw nerve and then scrapes its fingernails down the chalk board just to make sure you were listening the first time. It touches a raw nerve not just for those who for whatever reason are caught up in the injustice of family law but it will have touched a raw nerve with the police, legal system, judiciary and government because they all come out of this book looking like "idiots" at the very best and "down right evil" at the very worst. If these people aren't in the very least a little un-nerved by this book then they really are nothing short of the child-catcher character out of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, without the sweets and happy ending. Jenny is right, just read the book. This book is a jolly good read, pacey, intelligently written, political, socially spot on, controversial, funny, sad, exhausting, frightening, and revealing are just some of the words I would use.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Reading 4 Pleasure?,
This review is from: Fathers 4 Justice (Hardcover)
This is the story of the worst campaign group you have ever heard of written by its creator and creative director. That O'Connor can be pilloried for his passion for creating publicity it surely missing the point, would we be discussing the head of a protest group who shyed away from appearing in the press, I think not.
That O'Connor has a high opinion of him self it well understood but why not? He took the secret family courts and put them on the front page of every news paper in not only England but all of the Western World. Quite an achievement in it's self. The law has as yet to be changed and inequality between the genders in the family courts will no doubt take generations to change but Fathers 4 Justice has got the debate going after twenty years of PC man failed to generate the correct volume of protest whilst tiptoeing on egg shells. Weather you love or loathe O'Connor and Fathers 4 Justice is not important, what is important is that you know who they are. What leads a man to pull on a pair of tights, scale a building and indulge in petty vandalism? Fathers 4 Justice will show you why and how. Is it a plane? is it a bird? No, it's the worst campaign group you have ever heard of. Ker!Pow!
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