Please Don't Make Me Go.

"the harrowing true story of one boy's experiences in a brutal 'approved' school for young offenders in '50s London, run by Catholic monks where violence and abuse were rife. Beaten from an early age by his abusive, father, John struggled to fit in at school where his poverty marked him out. When, aged 13, his father brought a charge against him in order to remove him from the family home, John found himself in Juvenile Court -- from here he was sent to the notorious St. Vincent's school, run by a group of Catholic Irish Brothers. Beatings and abuse were a part of daily life -- both from John's fellow pupils, but also from the brothers, all of which was overseen by the sadistic headmaster, Brother De Montfort. Tormented physically and sexually by one boy in particular, and by the Brothers in general, John quickly learnt to survive but at the cost of the loss of his childhood.Please don't make me go, tells in heart-rending detail the day-to-day lives of John and the other boys -- the beatings, the weapons fashioned from toilet chains and stones, the loneliness -- but we also see the development of John's love of reading, his growing friendship with Father Delaney and his best friend, Bernard, and his unstinting love for his mother whom he feared was suffering at the hands of his violent father. A painfully, brutally honest account, Please don't make me go is also an example of the resilience of the human spirit as it documents how John learnt to survive and come through his ordeal."

my point of view: it is definitely the most interesting autobiography out there, the way that he(John) step out for his mum against his father when at the age of 12, is something truly courageous for a kid to do, and being sent to an "approved school" which is an ordeal through anyone's adolescence age. The so called approved school(St.Vincent, run by catholic roman Brothers, whom had no sense of humanity) is actually a living hell for the students there, being underestimated of having an IQ of 95, it is hard for any student in the school to thrives from their underprivileged life. I foretell that you will be clinging your teeth together, as u read the brutality of the Brothers,canned (until their arse bleeds and require hospital treatment)the boys and beat them up with satisfaction. Even if John came back home, he had to deal with his father everyday, who loves to beat up his mother, but as John was getting older,his father didn't dare to hit his mum in front of him, because John had threatened him to leave his mother alone, or he would kill him. Being in an approved school, bullying is nothing unusual. But John was getting tired of being bullied , so he studied, he observed how the others fight, and learn how to.He was involded in several fights and usually wins. In the end, no one would dare to get near him. But as he was about to be done with his three years sentenced, he decided that he woubld arrange a riot,due to the canning of a very young boy just because he wanted to ring his mother up and that, just made me admire him more, Im not going to tell u guys anything anymore, hahah, read it, and it will be worth your time.

this book :

1.is not suitable for underage, seriously.

2.cusses a lot.

3.made me use the phrase "i hope u are dead by christmas" 

4.made me curses : cunt, prick, bastard, and many more. lol

5.change my way of thinking about the boys in approved school.

READ IT!