People Farm

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Summary: Courageous
Review: I enjoyed this book. Honest story that I felt priviledged to read. Definately a story that needed to be written.

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Summary: Therapy Gone Bad
Review: I was born after the sexual revolution, after such people as the author made careers as "sex surrogates" working under the supervision of psychotherapists. This book brings the 1970s to life like nothing I've encountered before. Mr. Susoyev calls his memoir "a largely true story," and he has been careful to protect others' privacy. But he is painfully honest about his own participation in "therapy" that tore families apart. Amazingly, he manages to tell this horrifying story with humor and to inspire hope.

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Summary: Fantastic book - Captivating read!
Review: I'm half a generation too young to have been involved in the commune movement of the 60's and 70's -- I was still in grade school -- but this book shows all the great, wonderful, and horrifying aspects of a therapy-cult-commune, and entertains throughout! A GREAT read -- I immediately brought it to my reading group!

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Summary: A compelling tell-all which is very hard to put down
Review: Steve Susoyev's People Farm is the memoir of a participant in a early Aquarian Age "therapy cult" and a "human relations laboratory" which degenerated and deteriorated into patterns of sexual abuse, corruption, and psychopathy. Names and even the models of vehicles have been changed, but the raw, gut-wrenching power of this personal and eyewitness testimony shows through clearly as a warning to the seductive embrace of overly close-knit and controlling groups. A compelling tell-all which is very hard to put down, People Farm is especially recommended reading for anyone (including their families and friends) who finds themselves tempted by a cult community.