Books like The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III

I finished this book a few months ago, and have been putting off this review. This book makes me angry. It pains me mentally and emotionally. It is a despicable book, with a cast of despicable people and a child who is being exploited and used by all of them. This is what would happen if Satan wrote David Copperfield. Anyone who played Dungeons and Dragons as a kid in the 80's would have been, at least parenthetically, familiar with the case of James Dallas Egbert. Notorious hack, Rona Jaffe, glommed onto his story in her own novel Mazes and Monsters, which became a TV movie featuring an unknown actor by the name of Tom Hanks.Long story short: the popular depiction in the media is that Egbert killed himself because he went berserk playing a live action version of D&D. He became the poster boy for the damaged youth of America who couldn't differentiate reality from fantasy and suffered a dire end because of it. Dear, is a self aggrandizing dirt bag who decided to write this book to cash in on the tragic situation of a teenage child prodigy who was dealing with a lot of issues: parental pressure, being a child prodigy, drug use, and coming to terms with being gay in the 1970's.What is most tragic about the way the events in this book are depicted is that this poor kid had absolutely no one to turn to who wasn't either putting pressure on him, getting him stoned, ignoring him, or sexually exploiting him.Dear adds to the cast of useless characters by wanting to make a buck off of the kid. What makes this so painful is that there is a story to be told here. Dallas' life is worthy of discussion and being remembered. he lived at the intersections of a society that hated and feared gay people; a society that is distrustful and exploitative towards child prodigies; and, the need for self destruction that has taken so many young people from us.I hope one day someone writes that book.