Title: i feel betrayed.
Product review: When i first read this book at age 11 i thought it was so wonderful and educational. I truly believed that an actual girl from the 60's/70's had written it. it even encouraged me to not try drugs. But when i was 19 i found out that 'anonymous' was not a runaway hippie girl but Beatrice Sparks, an author who has written several books like this, i felt betrayed. Knowing that this book was a novel rather than an autobiography would not have made it any less powerful, but the feeling of being betrayed and lied to truly makes me wonder if anything in that book was true. Has Beatrice even been to San Francisco? has she ever tried drugs? how does she know how they feel? or is she just a propagandist with an anti-drug/anti-homosexual agenda? Lying to children, even if it is to protect them is still a very cheap and tasteless trick, especially when you are profitting financially from it.
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