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Title: Rock And A Hard Place, A : One Boy's Truimphant Story by Anthony Johnson ISBN: 0-517-59501-X Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 13 April, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.65 (49 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great either way
Comment: I have just finished the autobiography "A Rock and a Hard Place", by Anthony Godby Johnson, a then fourteen year old boy. This is one of the best school - related books I have read yet. It is a tale of a boy's life from being beaten and sexually abused to finding a new loving family to take care of him, to his discovery of having AIDS, but he does this all in a upbeat, non-self pity tone. While not one of the best written stories I have read because of its frequent jumps forward and backward in his life, this book will change your view of both AIDS and child abuse almost immediately upon opening the book.
It is obvious not too far into the book that Anthony is not the best of writers, but this is expected, he wrote this when he was only fourteen, and had to write it now because he didn't/doesn't have that long to live. It is not well written, but the amount of raw emotion pumped into every page in this book is amazing. Any normal person would have easily broken under such a tremendous mental burden. You feel as if you ARE Anthony as he watches all of the people closest to him die, lose hope, or just be crushed from unfortunate circumstances into homelessness. When I read this book I wasn't looking at printed words on pages, I was hearing the subway as I rode it in the night with my best friend to fall asleep, I was reading my best friends suicide letter to me because he couldn't live in a world without me when I told him I have AIDS.
Because of the compelling force in this story, many people think that this is actually a fictional story, and that Tony doesn't exist. Even if it is fiction, but I think its non-fiction, the author of the book should be commended for being able to so twist the reader's feeling and thoughts around their little finger simply with words. This book makes you feel that AIDS isn't the wraith of God, it is a horrible disease that affects anyone regardless of their "deserving" it or not. It is one of the most compelling stories I have ever read.
Rating: 1
Summary: The Church of the Dying Child
Comment: This book is the sacred text of a minor cult religion of the 90s.
"Tony" is pure, angelic, without flaw. You could meet his priests
but you could never see him, only hear his disembodied voice or read
his email. He suffered so that we will know the truth. You must
have faith that he exists -- if you doubt him, you are on the side
of evil. And he has gone away, leaving behind a permanently under-
construction webside, and us to wonder exactly what he meant.
It's a fake, but it drew people in. Even very intelligent people
like Armistead Maupin, whose novel "The Night Listener" is based
on the "Tony" cult. (That novel, plus the New Yorker article,
killed the cult dead -- nobody concerned with the real world can
take "Tony" seriously anymore.)
"Tony's" creator seems to have started a second career writing
heartfelt reviews of her book on Amazon. As other personas, natch.
Some Tonyists say: "But it doesn't matter whether he's real or not,
his story is important!" No, it isn't. A fake story passed off as
true makes nonsense of the real stories of real people. Only the
truth can set us free.
This book is for those interested in hoaxes, sentimental pity, and
the deep strangeness that the human mind is capable of. It may also
appeal to a few fans of sick humor. In any case, there is nothing
healthy or honest about this book on any level, and nobody connected
with it has anything to be proud of.
Rating: 1
Summary: Annoying.
Comment: No wonder the kid never expresses any negativity. It's easy to sound like a hero when you haven't actually gone through the real deal.
I think the name should've given anyone a clue as to it's validity.
Anthony God by Johnson.
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Title: They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch ISBN: 0451159411 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: August, 1988 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Whatever Mother Says... : A True Story of a Mother, Madness and Murder by Wensley Clarkson ISBN: 0312955421 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: One Child by Torey Hayden ISBN: 0380542625 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 May, 1981 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Ghost Girl: The True Story of a Child in Peril and the Teacher Who Saved Her by Torey Hayden ISBN: 038071681X Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Becoming Anna: The Autobiography of a Sixteen-Year-Old by Anna J. Michener ISBN: 0226524035 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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