I think that memoir’s should tell the truth but not always 100 percent. I mean this in the way that, I don’t believe that someone writing a book that begins in their childhood, thirty years earlier, is going to remember every piece of information and detail about the situation, which they write in their memoir. So some points are going to be factual and some are not. There is no way you can recall every detail about the experience you are writing about, unless maybe it had some profound meaning in your life, where you would remember it exactly. I think that memoirs should be at least 90 percent real, only because it leaves that 10 percent open for error or for imagining how you think you remember something.
Although John Glassco lied about his memoirs, it seemed as though the only way for him to deal with some of his issues was to write a book and call it his memoir. He probably shouldn’t included famous poets and authors that he didn’t actually meet. Would it have been as interesting if it had not been called a memoir? In a way it would seem as though he deceived his readers and made them believe this happened. Only when they found out it was a lie they were upset. I wonder if they still felt the same way about the book after? If only a quarter of the book was un-true then it shouldn’t be that big of a deal.
As for Lonelygirl15, I thought it was boring and I wouldn’t have considered watching it if I didn’t have to. If Mesh Flinders, the co creator, didn’t make any money off it then who cares. He lost out because he went and bought all the stuff from Target to change the appearance of his room. And he gave YouTube the million or so hits every time this aired. In my opinion it was not worth the controversy.
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