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A review by rebelstorm
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson
informative
medium-paced
3.75
3.75/5
Quality of writing: 4
Plot development: -
Pace: 4
Characters: -
Enjoyability: 3
Ease of reading: 4
Did this book change my mind about Beatrice Sparks? Not really. She did whatever she could to become someone. She used real experiences and twisted them to be more dramatic, she lied about her education, she kept grudges and kept tabs on Alden's family - "As the Barrets found themselves besieged, slowly coming apart in a cauldron of public shame, Sparks observed it all with an artist's care, clipping and filing the snapshots of another family's destruction." She used her connection to Art Linkletter and his daughter's suicide to sell Go Ask Alice... Sparks is credited as one of the catalysts of Satanic Panic too...
I just have no other words to be honest.
Quality of writing: 4
Plot development: -
Pace: 4
Characters: -
Enjoyability: 3
Ease of reading: 4
Did this book change my mind about Beatrice Sparks? Not really. She did whatever she could to become someone. She used real experiences and twisted them to be more dramatic, she lied about her education, she kept grudges and kept tabs on Alden's family - "As the Barrets found themselves besieged, slowly coming apart in a cauldron of public shame, Sparks observed it all with an artist's care, clipping and filing the snapshots of another family's destruction." She used her connection to Art Linkletter and his daughter's suicide to sell Go Ask Alice... Sparks is credited as one of the catalysts of Satanic Panic too...
I just have no other words to be honest.