Week 7 Prompt Response:
I'd like to respond to the article 5 Hoax Memoirs Still Worth Reading
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/5-hoax-memoirs-still-worth-reading/
I'm glad that someone else out there shares my views about these books. I've always maintained that they are still worth reading, they just have to be read as fiction and not fact, just like the article says. I have A Million Little Pieces and Go Ask Alice on my shelves to read. I think they can still be fascinating stories, as long as you start reading them with the knowledge that they aren't true. It also adds another aspect to the book when you know the author fabricated parts of it. In that way, it can read like an entirely different book with the reader trying to understand why the author felt the need to lie to their audience. Even the book mentioned in the first paragraph, The Awful Disclosures, sounds interesting to me and I would still read it knowing that it is all made up. It also makes you wonder what other works of nonfiction have been fabricated, and could potentially make you a skeptical reader, which sounds exhausting.
I'd like to respond to the article 5 Hoax Memoirs Still Worth Reading
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/5-hoax-memoirs-still-worth-reading/
I'm glad that someone else out there shares my views about these books. I've always maintained that they are still worth reading, they just have to be read as fiction and not fact, just like the article says. I have A Million Little Pieces and Go Ask Alice on my shelves to read. I think they can still be fascinating stories, as long as you start reading them with the knowledge that they aren't true. It also adds another aspect to the book when you know the author fabricated parts of it. In that way, it can read like an entirely different book with the reader trying to understand why the author felt the need to lie to their audience. Even the book mentioned in the first paragraph, The Awful Disclosures, sounds interesting to me and I would still read it knowing that it is all made up. It also makes you wonder what other works of nonfiction have been fabricated, and could potentially make you a skeptical reader, which sounds exhausting.
Your comment about reading a "memoir" as a piece of fiction once we know it's false reminded me of a book I once read thinking it was fiction, but it was a memoir. It makes a huge difference!
ReplyDeleteI had no idea fake memoirs even existed...where have I been? It's a really interesting topic. I like your idea about reading the book as if it were fiction! I can see how that would make a difference when reading.
ReplyDeleteYou're not wrong! I too love both of those books, I just have to give myself a little talk before reading them and adjust how I view it. They're still good but in a different way. Great job full points.
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