30 things wrong with It Happened to Nancy, by VILE FRAUD Beatrice Sparks (Bad Mormon propaganda)

This is the first of a series going through everything wrong with It Happened to Nancy, the first “Dr.” Beatrice Sparks book I ever read. When I discovered as an adult this is 100% fiction and that this girl never died of AIDS, I felt really angry, tricked, used, emotionally manipulated. There are so many things wrong with this book, more than one video and blog post are necessary. This installment discusses, among many other things, the implausibility of Collin’s crimes, how Nancy reads like no Catholic I’ve ever known (indeed, she sounds very Mormon like the author!), the medical impossibility of dying of AIDS within two years of getting HIV, and the massive failure of fact-checking a supposed real event on the very first page. Garth Brooks didn’t play any shows on 14 April 1990!
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[@JoyInFreedom]

I read this book in my teens. I was so moved and saddened by it. To know it was fake is so deceiving. Thank you for making this video. ❤

[@Ursulas_Odds_and_Sods]

I felt emotionally manipulated and angry when I discovered this is a work of fiction, particularly since I was a child at the height of the AIDS crisis and knew what a terrible, serious disease this is. Making up a story about someone dying from it and pretending she was real is beyond low.

[@JoyInFreedom]

@@Ursulas_Odds_and_Sods Amen. I was born in 1993 so I was not around during the height of it but in the 2000s it was still talked about and I was so afraid of it. I can only imagine how much more scary it was to live in the 80s.

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

Very interesting. I found this to be very disconcerting: I just looked this book up online, and there are several different editions available which have been "reviewed" by readers who seem not to know that this is NOT a true story. Person after person writes about how devastating this book was and how brave the family must have been. Wasn't Sparks totally exposed as a fraud? I thought that this would make you laugh, though: the wikipedia entry on Sparks lists her occupation as "author, youth counselor, speaker, hoaxer." The opening paragraph of the entry also refers to her a "serial hoaxer."

[@Ursulas_Odds_and_Sods]

It's infuriating how she was allowed to get away with writing all these fake diaries for decades! She was working on more when she died, with quotes from fake doctors as always.

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

@@Ursulas_Odds_and_Sods It is infuriating. I can't believe that the fraud wasn't uncovered much earlier. I mean, what are the odds that this one person would have access to ALL of these "diaries" of teens who had come to tragic ends? It's absurd!