Literary Hoaxes: An Eye-Opening History of Famous Frauds Book

Granted, not exactly well written. The thing is, I loved the material so much, I overlooked the subpar quality of writing... Almost. How to explain, now, how the writing was subpar, exactly? Well... It felt like an average freshman university paper. Maybe even an excelling high school senior, using a thesaurus. Cliches were used, transitions were not exactly smooth, the research was there, but in the end seemed executed poorly. I can almost imagine the author impressed with herself as she puts the finishing touches on her "ingenious" categorization of chapters (). Also located more than one grammatical error, so not sure where the Editors were.... She also used practically the same words for differing descriptions. In other words, university student using thesaurus?

Mark Twain to Victorian Age poets; Holocaust survivors whom made up more (why would anyone fictionalize your life when your true life story is already better) to those pretending to having been; Australian (according to the author the country where this is most prevalent?); The New Yorker's Jonah Lehrer to personal favorite James Frey, whom blindsided, humiliated, magicianed Oprah before the entire nation.... But then was given the same in return + some. Why my personal favorite? It is not because of the attention, but because I truly love his writing & cannot understand how he could have kinda-sorta-maybe-we-will-see done this to his career by unnecessarily fabricating minor details. (Yes, Vonia is so upset you are seeing pleonasm here... )

Anyways, I was intrigued by the information, so I am thankful for her research. It was more of a fun beach read, I would say, then what this is being marketed as. What else did I learn? These occur far more often than I realized. Are still occurring ever more often than that, with those that have been undiscovered. That, am I to conscientiously dedicate resources to completing my own memoir, I need to be aware that plagiarism is not what I originally believed it to defined as. Apparently, I can plagiarize myself. Which I am having trouble understanding still. A little. Oh, we also reconfirmed that Oprah can, would, likely already does rule the world.