And I suspect that many of the zillions of people who bought it have only read several *select* pages, as Oprah did when she conducted her straight-for-the-jugglar interview of Phillips on the day the book launched. In case you live on an alternate planet, Phillips revealed a 10 year sexual relationship with her rock star father in the book, written over the previous year as she was getting sober after a major drug bust. I believe that her book may pave the way for many stories about the wildly inappropriate things that befell underage girls in the late 70s (like Cinnamon Girls.) The free thinking, great music and free love that provided such dizzying highs for the era hid a dark side – a lack of protection for girls whose parents believed that, as Phillips put it, “the rules didn’t apply to them.” Is she defaming her father unnecessarily or is she going public with something that will help many others who harbor similar terrible secrets? I don’t know, actually. I haven’t read the book… and I probably won’t any time soon, given the teetering stack of books already waiting on my bedside table.

It’s such an impossibly lurid story – hard to know how to feel about it. I’d love to hear comments from those who have read it.