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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but gone to his head!, 3 Sep 2007
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.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Read it and weep...and laugh and gasp in horror., 8 Sep 2007
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.
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19 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fathers 4 Justice has achieved., 1 Sep 2007
Love him or loath him, Matt O'Connor-though F4J-has, with others, raised public awareness from the assumption Family Law works to the widespread belief that it simply does not. His book is another tool.
The book really does have some very good material that can take the campaign for open family courts and presumption to contact for fathers another step forward. The book also illustrates just why so many father groups have failed in the past-infighting, personality clashers, point scoring, worrying about whose making what, etc, and that's before government infiltrators got in! Just look how Families Need Fathers went? Started off campaigning for change, now actually support the concept of contact centres. Appalling, a whole box of viagra could not stiffen them up now.
WE DONT HAVE TO LIKE EACH OTHER, we can even hate each other at times, but please, don't shoot down the only publicity machine that has any hope of ending this corrupt and destructive family law farce in the UK. If Matt should became a millionaire on the way to changing what takes place by way of sales of his book, good on him. No one else is doing anything, nothing else exists now and probably never will.
The radical feminist gropus that helped create the anti straight male agenda that exists today never fought against one another in public, yet behind the scenes they could not possibly have all got on. Public unity was their great success. Take note gentlemen!
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