Memoirs
I've been duped. I am embarassed and outraged. A book was recommended to me, a book purported to be a truthful story.
But I was duped.
Within this book that I read, I now believe the author altered facts, fictionalized accounts of key plot points, and dramatized the life stories of the primary subjects of the story. Though this book may very well be established in fact, due to instances of dramatic license and fictionalized alterations, I can no longer take any value from the tone of the book and apply it meaningfully to my life.
I realize the subject of fabricated nonfiction has been worn to death on the tv new for the past few days, but allow me to mention a few of the accounts in question. In one chapter of this so called true story, a group of hundreds of people are fed by a meager amount of food not sufficint for even perhaps a dinner for two. The primary subject of the second half of the book develops the ability to walk atop water, heal the sick and infirm without medicine or even therapuetic massage-god I do love a good massage, he even claims to have altered the chemical properties of water, turning it into wine, without the aid of fruit, alcohol, or fermentation time allowance.
There are multiple instances of people living to extremely old age, others even pass away, only to be brought back to life post mortem, and I saw no mention of electro-static defibrillation.
These fantastic yarns are just a handful of obviously dramatized events in a book that was recommended to me as a truthful account of a collection of stories. Because of the liberties used by the writer of this professed factual account, I must completely discount the themes the book expouses. This book now holds no value as a guide to caring for others, treating my fellow man with compassion, and living a good and decent life.
Oprah is a cunt.
But I was duped.
Within this book that I read, I now believe the author altered facts, fictionalized accounts of key plot points, and dramatized the life stories of the primary subjects of the story. Though this book may very well be established in fact, due to instances of dramatic license and fictionalized alterations, I can no longer take any value from the tone of the book and apply it meaningfully to my life.
I realize the subject of fabricated nonfiction has been worn to death on the tv new for the past few days, but allow me to mention a few of the accounts in question. In one chapter of this so called true story, a group of hundreds of people are fed by a meager amount of food not sufficint for even perhaps a dinner for two. The primary subject of the second half of the book develops the ability to walk atop water, heal the sick and infirm without medicine or even therapuetic massage-god I do love a good massage, he even claims to have altered the chemical properties of water, turning it into wine, without the aid of fruit, alcohol, or fermentation time allowance.
There are multiple instances of people living to extremely old age, others even pass away, only to be brought back to life post mortem, and I saw no mention of electro-static defibrillation.
These fantastic yarns are just a handful of obviously dramatized events in a book that was recommended to me as a truthful account of a collection of stories. Because of the liberties used by the writer of this professed factual account, I must completely discount the themes the book expouses. This book now holds no value as a guide to caring for others, treating my fellow man with compassion, and living a good and decent life.
Oprah is a cunt.
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