31st January 2006, 12:33 AM
lmao wtf? It's an inspirational book that was probably put through many test audiences (his friends, other authors, etc) in order to create the most entertaining book he could. In fact, so entertaining that Oprah put on her must-have list.
What he sold was ENTERTAINMENT fashioned to inspire people, to give a message about drug addiction and how a guy overcame it. The so-called lies are nothing more than over-dramatization which is WHY people like the book or books in general or anything that has to do with MEDIA for the purposes of ENTERTAINMENT
There are thousands upon thousands of biographical news articles, books, TV shows and films that add more drama to the story to make it more entertaining or to strengthen the resolve of the story. James Cameron said during an interview about Titanic that the false-smoke stack on the Titanic probably wouldn't have fallen as it did but it offered a huge chance to increase the drama so he jumped on it. *GASP* The sinking of Titanic wasn't completely faithful to the true life events! Let's all put Cameron on Larry King Live and remove his testicles!
People are taking this totally the wrong way and most of it is because when Smoking Gun ran the article, Oprah went on Larry King Live to defend the book still having a good message and then got a backlash of her rabid fan base who said 'Oprah supports liars!!!!1one" so she had to retaliate and spend an entire show apologizing. It's retarded.
It doesn't matter if its lies or little embelishments or if he had to adjust the time line to make certain 'scenes' happen in the most entertaining way, all that matters is: IS THE BOOK GOOD OR NOT. Hasn't anyone here heard of a 'semi-biographical' story? Like if someone made an autobiography about Staleny Kubrick and threw in some personal ideals of his views even though there's no record of him saying those views, it's just assumed to put the story in a certain scope for people to be entertained by.
God there are so many misprints, misreadings, untrue statements, half-truths, outright bullshit, biased force-fed commercialism, etc etc in so many venues of our education and religious systems and our so-called news sources and we throw a hissy fit because some former drug addict who cleaned up wanted to inspire other addicts to clean up? What a cluster fuck. I seriously hope the bird flu takes off and we cut down atleast 90% of the world's population asap.
What he sold was ENTERTAINMENT fashioned to inspire people, to give a message about drug addiction and how a guy overcame it. The so-called lies are nothing more than over-dramatization which is WHY people like the book or books in general or anything that has to do with MEDIA for the purposes of ENTERTAINMENT
There are thousands upon thousands of biographical news articles, books, TV shows and films that add more drama to the story to make it more entertaining or to strengthen the resolve of the story. James Cameron said during an interview about Titanic that the false-smoke stack on the Titanic probably wouldn't have fallen as it did but it offered a huge chance to increase the drama so he jumped on it. *GASP* The sinking of Titanic wasn't completely faithful to the true life events! Let's all put Cameron on Larry King Live and remove his testicles!
People are taking this totally the wrong way and most of it is because when Smoking Gun ran the article, Oprah went on Larry King Live to defend the book still having a good message and then got a backlash of her rabid fan base who said 'Oprah supports liars!!!!1one" so she had to retaliate and spend an entire show apologizing. It's retarded.
It doesn't matter if its lies or little embelishments or if he had to adjust the time line to make certain 'scenes' happen in the most entertaining way, all that matters is: IS THE BOOK GOOD OR NOT. Hasn't anyone here heard of a 'semi-biographical' story? Like if someone made an autobiography about Staleny Kubrick and threw in some personal ideals of his views even though there's no record of him saying those views, it's just assumed to put the story in a certain scope for people to be entertained by.
God there are so many misprints, misreadings, untrue statements, half-truths, outright bullshit, biased force-fed commercialism, etc etc in so many venues of our education and religious systems and our so-called news sources and we throw a hissy fit because some former drug addict who cleaned up wanted to inspire other addicts to clean up? What a cluster fuck. I seriously hope the bird flu takes off and we cut down atleast 90% of the world's population asap.