- 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)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 459,265 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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
Format: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
Format: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.
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
Format: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!
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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A Tremendous Book Written For A VERY Tremendous Reason
Matt O'Connor reminds me of Jason Bourne [Bourne trilogy movies]....just look at the corrupt establishment they've both had to fight!! Read more
Published on 12 Sep 2007 by Tremendous Paul
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This is a must read for any dad, i was glued from start to finish.A fantastic book had me in tears from crying and laughing in equal messure. Read more
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This tome collates the activities of Matt O'Connor & F4J to date, & illustrates with superb statistics & other evidence the sorry disarray of the secret family court system , where... Read more
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I have just read Fathers 4 Justice The Inside Story after hearing Matt O'Connor on George Galloway's show last weekend. Read more
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A door stop AND a knockout hardback that could be used a lethal weapon!
With recipes for a 'Condom Bomb A La Tony Blair' and a 'Dirty Martini' sitting alongside a 'Cell... Read more
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Where were you
I'm truly astounded by some of the reviews appearing on this website - I was beginning to think that maybe I had just had a really bad nightmare, and that I hadn't actually worked... Read more
Published on 6 Sep 2007 by Jenny
Marmite Man
After reading O'Connor's autobiography, it is easy to see why at its peak the Fathers Movement flourished and caused an international press sensation. Read more
Published on 6 Sep 2007 by Georgie Phillipps
A tale of redemption
As an old colleague of Matt O'Connor's I can't quite believe what he's done - nor can I believe the flack he's getting for doing it. Firstly, it's Matt's story not anyone elses. Read more
Published on 6 Sep 2007 by Andy Heath
That's How he did it!
Is there no beginning to this man's talents? I read with amusement the comments rubbishing Matt O'Connor's book and wondered how, given what a very bad man he clearly is, he... Read more
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