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The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes, by Dawn Schiller
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From Publishers Weekly
The 2003 movie Wonderland vivified Schiller's teenage experience under the thrall of a drug-addled porn star in L.A. in the late 1970s, while this long docudrama expands on that raw era to include her peripatetic, dysfunctional upbringing and aftermath as a survivor. The daughter of a Vietnam vet and a German woman he met and married overseas, Schiller spent her early years moving around to accommodate her father's military career, especially between New Jersey and the suburbs of Miami. After a free-wheeling road trip, the family ended up in Glendale, Calif., where Schiller met John Holmes, the charismatic 32-year-old married manager of an apartment complex they happened to crash in. Holmes clearly took on a fatherly role to young Schiller, whose own father left her to her own devices, including feeding herself. She was 15, and he had a thriving secret career as a porn star. She eventually moved in with Holmes and his sympathetic wife, Sharon, though drugs soon changed the dynamic to erratic behavior: Holmes beat and prostituted Schiller before she fled, and he became entangled in the so-called Wonderland murders of 1981. This is the grim, interminable plight of a "throwaway" teen with nowhere else to go, a cautionary tale in workmanlike prose. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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From Booklist
Curiously enough for a book concerned with notorious pornographic film star John Holmes, there is very little emphasis on sex here. Instead, Schiller, who met Holmes in 1976 when she was just 15, details their five-year love affair, the stability he provided in the wake of her troubled childhood, and the deterioration of their relationship after Homes became addicted to cocaine and was ultimately arrested. While in the grip of drug-fueled paranoia, he would beat her while also forcing her to prostitute herself for money to feed his habit. Her vulnerability is revealed by the fact that she spends as much time describing the way he casually destroyed her beloved Christmas gifts as she does the degradations he forced her to undergo. The most fascinating person in the book is Holmes' wife, Sharon, a dedicated nurse who claims she was ignorant of Holmes and Schiller's relationship; indeed, she became more of a mother to Dawn than her own mother ever was. Dawn's story is so volatile and dysfunctional that even her labored prose can't mask the drama of lives spinning out of control. --Joanne Wilkinson
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Product details
Paperback: 478 pages
Publisher: Medallion Press; 1st Printing edition (August 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1605420832
ISBN-13: 978-1605420837
Product Dimensions:
5.1 x 1.1 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
383 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#572,447 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Oh Dawn! I went looking for you online after I fell in love with Wonderland. As brutal and horrifying as I found the movie, I knew it was "Hollywoodized" and wasn't a true account of what happened. As luck would have it, I found you at [...[ Spent quite some time browsing the bio and reading through the archives. I was so excited to find out the book was getting ready to hit the stands. So I waited patiently.....patiently. Finally, the book is out and believe it or not, there isn't a book store within 40 miles of where I live. So, my parents were driving through Terre Haute, IN and I sent them on a hunt for it. They bought the ONLY copy in the store. The poor employees there just about had to break out the bloodhounds to find it. It was the ONLY copy sent there....and I got it! I had to wait breathlessly for a couple of days before they could deliver it to me and I gave them strict orders that they weren't allowed to read it before me.From the moment I opened it, I COULD NOT put it down. I laughed. I cried. For 2 days, I neglected my family. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. It was everything I expected it to be, and so very much more. This book isn't about John Holmes and Wonderland. It's about Dawn. Her life. Her family. Her addictions. Her frustrations. Her fear. Her SURVIVAL and perseverance through things that should've killed her and have done so to others. As much as I love reading true life books, I don't remember feeling pulled directly into the story and the settings the way I was this time. I could almost smell the stale air in the seedy hotels and the salt water on the beach. I wanted to be a mother to that little girl and hold her while she cried, and brush her hair and just let her know that she was loved.I passed the book on to my mother, my own teenaged daughter and a couple of co-workers. The response has been overwhelmingly positive. My daughter is getting ready to read it a second time.Epilogue: Shortly after I got my copy of the book, I found out that Dawn was going to be signing books in Aurora, IL which is just about an hour away from me. How could I let this opportunity pass? I loaded up the my car with my daughter and her boyfriend. We had a little trouble finding it, but we got there. When we walked in, Dawn was speaking to a large crowd in a beautiful church. Dawn came out a few minutes before the service ended so, we had time to chat a little with her. I can tell you that she is stunningly beautiful and draws you in with her bright eyes and kind smile. I felt like I was visiting with a family member. We took some pictures and she signed my book. She was surprised to see how well worn it was already. Of course, it HAS been passed around a bit. :) Thank you Dawn, for telling your story. Thank you for working for the Throwaway Teens who have nobody watching out for them! You are a true inspiration.
The Road Through Wonderland is a well expressed memoir that methodically details the highs and lows of Dawn Schiller's relationship with 32 year old porn legend, John Holmes. In the summer of 1976, Schiller was a young teenage girl left to her own devices after the sudden divorce of her parents resulted in a relative state of abandonment by her father.The setting of Dawn's meeting with Holmes is in Glendale, California, almost a decade after the wake of the 60s revolution and during a less restrictive era, when the lines of social mores were slightly askew in comparison to today's climate of clearly defined laws regarding matters of sexual consent. As an adult film star, Holmes was at the pinnacle of his career and Schiller is unaware of his stature in the X-rated industry, until the nature of his work is divulged by a tenant at the Glendale cottages where John and his wife of eleven years, Sharon, are co-managers. John shields Dawn from his profession and despite the differences in their ages, he and Schiller share an almost immediate mutual attraction. In more than half of the book, Dawn describes the first few years of their forbidden but blossoming romance and basks in John's adoring attention while remembering to respect Sharon by maintaining a demeanor of discretion. Holmes plays multiple roles in their burgeoning relationship - both as a father figure and charismatic Svengali. Eventually, Sharon becomes a trusted friend and surrogate mother to Schiller.Dramatically, Holmes is converted from an attentive and caring boyfriend into a paranoid and violent desperado after he introduces cocaine into the fold. Schiller spends her final year with Holmes in fear of a man she no longer recognizes. The horrific and abusive behavior exhibited by John during this period is not particularly unique for an individual caught in the suffocating grips of chemical addiction, but it is undeniably grim. Feeling powerless and emotionally frail, Schiller is reluctantly along for the ride as Holmes (fueled by drugs or a lack of) begins an association with some nefarious characters. It is a defining moment when Dawn finally breaks free - and ultimately forgives John.There are some interesting common threads in the story linking characters, but most prevalent are the situations of abuse. In addition to Schiller, it is revealed that, as children, both her mother and father were exposed to acts of physical and psychological abuse (as was Holmes during his childhood and teen years).For readers not unfamiliar with the Holmes/Schiller/Wonderland story, some timeline issues arise (and factual errors) pertaining to specific events, and also characters, that have already been documented by Schiller and others in related projects. Dawn does not mention at least one other significant girlfriend in John's life during the years that he and Schiller were together, as Holmes was notorious for maintaining concurrent relationships with mistresses and wives. Sharon Holmes would have made a more suitable choice as a contributor to the book's Foreward, as was the original intention, rather than actors Val Kilmer and Kate Bosworth. It would also be interesting to learn how Sharon Holmes is doing today as there is very little known about her - she continues to be an enigma. Ironically, the book's photo section is sparse. There is only one random photo of Schiller and Holmes, pictured with John's sister-in-law and nephew.Dawn's story is a cautionary tale in many respects - it not only serves as a voice for discarded teens, it powerfully depicts the ravages of chemical addiction on the human spirit. As a whole, the book shares compelling insights, but contains gaps.
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