Patti

by John Benton

Book by Benton, John

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction

187 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Dawn Michelle]

I am not sure how to rate this now - if it was back in 1979[ish - I was 11 when I started that school] when I first picked this [and the rest of the John Benton books] book up off the "library" shelf at the very small Christian school I attended [WHO thinks these kind of books were okay for sheltered, naive, uninformed kids? Because they had a "christian" message, that made them okay. Trust me, we were not reading them for that message, that's for darn sure], I would have rated it 5 stars. I was totally into these books as it showed a world I had never seen before and I read them over and over and over again. I could have cared less about the "message"; it was all about the details and the "sex" and the salaciousness of them. And now, as an adult who has seen the world and looks at things through a much different lens, these books seem..tawdry and very sensationalized and a bit scandalous IMO. So I am going to leave this one [and all the others that I am going to review [with this same review] with no rating. I am really torn now, as an adult, as to what I think about these books.

[Jeff · Rating 3 out of 5]

1st Read: January 28 - January, 30, 1996
I had run out of reading material again, and dove into some more of my sister's books that she's had since the '70 and '80's. I'd read a couple of the John Benton stories and always liked the outcome of them. This was no exception.
Just this past December of 2014, I had read a book called The Cross and the Switchblade by Reverend David Wilkerson. It struck a similarity to these stories. So I googled his name and John Benton's...sure enough, they worked together after meeting in 1965. They went on crusades to preach to the masses and help get children off of drugs, particularly heroin. As well as getting them off the streets into a better system of life, they founded The Walter Hoving House's.