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Originally Posted by Jyqm
How is this scummy?
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That's up to you, babe. Your sense of morality must be different from mine and vice versa.
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I'm enjoying the fact that the "scandal" is bringing him twice the riches and accolades he had even a week ago.
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He had better enjoy it while it lasts because I predict his next book will sink as quickly as Jayson Blair's and Stephen Glass'.
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Originally Posted by Jyqm
No, it certainly would not have. Which again begs the question: What's the difference?
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The difference is that he lied to the book-buying public to sell his book. It's a work of fiction and should have been treated as such.
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I say good for him for exploiting an America that doesn't give a **** about fiction anymore but creams all over every two-bit inspirational memoir it can get its hands on. And good for Oprah and Doubleday for recognizing that a good book is a good book (according to them, anyway, I haven't read it).
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The book is fabulously entertaining, but he can't write for ****. It reads like a Hubert Selby Jr. rip-off.