Rating: 
Summary: Pretty bad
Review: Just like the previous reviewer said, this book is written on an 8th grade level! The grammar is awful. The choppy sentances were irritating me. As for the content, it is bad. It is all the stuff the real Bettie Page would probably you rather not know. Bettie was absolutely beautiful in her heyday and if that is the image you wish to maintain about her, don't buy this book!
Rating: 
Summary: The Bettie I never heard about
Review: My all time favorite book on Bettie is "The Life Of a Pin-Up Legend". She spoke with the authors of that book and gave her blessing. That book has a "happy ending", Bettie finding solace in bible study and religion. This book, "The Truth About the Queen of Pin-Ups", tells a very different side of Bettie's life story, one that I'd never heard about before. It surprised me! I'm not surprised Bettie wouldn't help with this book. It focuses on years she wants to forget. It's sad to hear about her problems with mental illness. I found it interesting mainly because the author spoke to a woman who actually lived with Bettie for a time, and the pictures were interesting. This book doesn't change my opinion of Bettie Page, she is still my favorite icon. I don't mind if the Goddess is all too human. Still love her!
Rating:
Summary: The Bettie I never heard about
Review: My all time favorite book on Bettie is "The Life Of a Pin-Up Legend". She spoke with the authors of that book and gave her blessing. That book has a "happy ending", Bettie finding solace in bible study and religion. This book, "The Truth About the Queen of Pin-Ups", tells a very different side of Bettie's life story, one that I'd never heard about before. It surprised me! I'm not surprised Bettie wouldn't help with this book. It focuses on years she wants to forget. It's sad to hear about her problems with mental illness. I found it interesting mainly because the author spoke to a woman who actually lived with Bettie for a time, and the pictures were interesting. This book doesn't change my opinion of Bettie Page, she is still my favorite icon. I don't mind if the Goddess is all too human. Still love her!
Rating:
Summary: The Bettie I never heard about
Review: My all time favorite book on Bettie is "The Life Of a Pin-Up Legend". She spoke with the authors of that book and gave her blessing. That book has a "happy ending", Bettie finding solace in bible study and religion. This book, "The Truth About the Queen of Pin-Ups", tells a very different side of Bettie's life story, one that I'd never heard about before. It surprised me! I'm not surprised Bettie wouldn't help with this book. It focuses on years she wants to forget. It's sad to hear about her problems with mental illness. I found it interesting mainly because the author spoke to a woman who actually lived with Bettie for a time, and the pictures were interesting. This book doesn't change my opinion of Bettie Page, she is still my favorite icon. I don't mind if the Goddess is all too human. Still love her!
Rating: 
Summary: Taking his piece of the Bettie Page pie...
Review: Not particularily well written. So, if we are to believe the revelations in this book, it only proves that Bettie was just as human as you or I. Well, I, for one, already knew that. She's still the best!
In response to one of the more inane reviews: Just because someone says something is true, does not make it so. My guess is that you're a big Michael Moore fan!
Rating:
Summary: It's so, so sad...
Review: Sometimes it is fun to read about other peoples life and their misfortune. Kinda peek into the forbidden zone, watch Ricki Lake make entertainment of the teenager pregnant with her cousin. But this book is so sad. Not so much because of it's content, but because of the authors very poor writing skills and lack of finesse.
Of course, this book is tabloid, and that's excactly what you are getting by reading it, but when tabloid turns boring there's nothing much left is there?
The author spends the entire foreword of the book "explaining" (read: justifying) why he wrote this book, why he decided to take Bettie Page's inner most secrets and make a lot of money on them, without asking her permission. Kinda funny, concidering he has devoted a whole chapter talking about other people so rude making money of off her without permission... He is even trying to convince the reader that he thinks she's happy about it!
To sum it up; this is an unneccesary, boring, poorly written tabloid style book, lacking finesse and the socalled truths in it are questioned by many.
Rating: 
Summary: Tabloid trash or truth
Review: This much debated-over book attempts to fill in the gaps of Bettie's "missing years" between her retiring from modeling and rediscovery in the late 80s. Foster paraphrases information from the Karen Essex book and Greg Theakston's The Betty Pages about Betties life during the 1950s. Then he draws from police records and witness accounts, detailing Betties deteriorating mental health and subsequent arrests for attempted murder.Many Bettie fans refuse to believe Foster, or put him down for revealing such personal details about a figure who has chosen to remain private. Foster is probably right when he states that if he didn't write the book, someone else would have. Maybe that someone would have been a better writer; Fosters tabloid style skills look weak even to a young writer like me. The back of the book contains a comprehensive index for Bettie fandom, or books, websites, magazines, videos and CD-Roms relating to Bettie. At least Foster is somewhat aware of the fact that the readers of this book are primarily Bettie's fans, so he abstains from putting her down or attempting to derail their persuit. He just states what he claims are the facts, and in the process makes some cash.
Rating:
Summary: The Real Bettie Page Book Review
Review: This was an interesting book but seemed a little lurid to me, I was fascinated by the pictures in the book, which showed both the naughty and the nice Bettie Page. I would recommend it for hard core Bettie Page fans, but it would have made a better read if Bettie Page would have cooperated with the author and given her side of the story. We aren't really given an insight into the slide into insanity and her stays in mental hospitals. Without Bettie's version of events it is hard to know what to believe.
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