The Fight That Never Ends [Paperback]

Tim Brown (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 12, 2005

While his peers at school were excelling in sports and academics and looking forward to a bright future, Tim was being physically and psychologically abused by schoolmates, teachers, and principals. This book is a true autobiographical story describing years of bullying and abuse. The author tries to figure out what went wrong and use his experiences to find answers to help other past, present, and future victims of school harassment.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Tim Brown is a longtime political activist who has published an editorial newsletter and over 1,000 articles. He currently lives in Kentucky.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Lulu.com (March 12, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1411626559
• ISBN-13: 978-1411626553
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,315,811 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eminem meets Deliverance, October 13, 2005

By 

Axl Rose - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fight That Never Ends (Paperback)

You'll love this rollicking read about an insurgent rebel battling the inbred idiots at his school. You have to give the author credit for putting up with a bunch of backwoods rejects for as long as he did. I'm surprised he wasn't the only student in the gifted class, as it appears the average IQ of the people at his school was about 23. Most of his teachers and fellow students sound like they belong in a loony bin.

For gawd's sake, what kind of school makes freshmen dress up like hookers for "initiation"? Probably the same kind of school that won't replace missing locks for a student's locker and makes him pay for all the books that get stolen because he doesn't have a lock. That at a Roman Catholic school, no less. The principal at this school sounds like he is both a liar and a nutcase.

Notice the school never admits responsibility when something is clearly the school's fault?

I feel sorry for the author for being surrounded by so many losers, but I feel just as sorry for the rejects who hassled him as they were the products of sibling incest. It sounds like the author was one of few people at his school who didn't have 12 toes and fingers.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Book About the "Other" Side of High School, July 24, 2007

By 

C. M. Griggs (Florence, KY USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: The Fight That Never Ends (Paperback)

I went to the same school district as the author though I did not know him (I think I was a Senior when he was a Freshman). I never experienced any of the things that happened to the author. I had a typical high school experience. There were people I didn't like and who didn't like me but it never went beyond name calling in the halls... perhaps because I'm a girl? It's like we went to two different schools. My teachers and administrators were kind, responsive to my problems and helpful.

That said, my baby brother had the same kinds of things happen to him. It started in Kindergarten and continued at least to graduation and possibly beyond. Until I read this book, I assumed (based on my own experiences) that my brother had agged it on in some way. It's shocking to see that people's experiences in school could be so radically different. My brother's teachers and administrators were threatening, mean and unjust. My brother was a BIG kid (he was 6'3" at 12 years old) and was often jumped by someone for the hell of it (these guys were obviously not too brilliant). Once my brother was suspended from school for three days because 6 guys jumped him when he was walking down the hall... he didn't even fight back because he'd already learned not to. The administrators never even gave the 6 guys detention (even though they almost hospitalized my brother) because it was "obvious that **** (my brother) had started the fight, because who would be stupid enough to start a fight with someone a foot taller than themselves."

It is still shocking to me that the school that the author and my brother attended was SO different from the one that I attended. I don't know the reason for the dichotomy. I had the ideal "best time of my life" high school experience even though I was by no means popular. The author and my brother obviously went through hell.

This book is definitely is a good description of that hell.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good book, August 3, 2006

By 

Adrian (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fight That Never Ends (Paperback)

As a college student I can relate to a lot of this.

The narrator gets pretty much tagged starting in first grade and never seems to get rid of the bullies. I do find it striking (obsessive??) that it would have continued beyond high school. From the story I gather this is a rather small community (maybe medium sized from what he says) with a commuter campus, so I guess it's impossible to really start fresh.

It sounded like the bullying was just compounded with one new negative experience after another. Very unfortunate.

I do hope this raises some awareness of the problem of bullying.