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03-05-2008, 09:11 PM
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Wow! Read This Article.
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03-05-2008, 10:34 PM
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oh. WOW.
thats quite an imagination.
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03-05-2008, 11:19 PM
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Yet another example of the co-opting of the stories of marginalized people for personal gain. The book was probably only remarkable in that she is an ostensibly white woman; if not, why not market it as fiction.
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03-06-2008, 04:28 PM
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Yet another example of the co-opting of the stories of marginalized people for personal gain. The book was probably only remarkable in that she is an ostensibly white woman; if not, why not market it as fiction.
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that was my second thought. but then i guess people would have slammed her for "writing on what she heard than what she knew." i guess for her, writing it as a memoir gave her more legitimacy.
but shame on NYT for not fact checking. or her publishing company.
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03-06-2008, 06:19 PM
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but then i guess people would have slammed her for "writing on what she heard than what she knew."
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And I think that would have been an equally valid critique.
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03-06-2008, 06:57 PM
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Yet another example of the co-opting of the stories of marginalized people for personal gain. The book was probably only remarkable in that she is an ostensibly white woman; if not, why not market it as fiction.
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My exact thought. Apparently this woman is talended with the pen. It's too bad she had to go this route.
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03-07-2008, 11:34 AM
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Wow!! Fake memoirs are becoming common place. I don't get it.
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03-07-2008, 01:40 PM
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Wow!! Fake memoirs are becoming common place. I don't get it.
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My initial thought is that people are desperate to have their work seen. It's too bad because now she has ruined her credibility.
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03-07-2008, 04:40 PM
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Its unfortunate, but maybe she should try writing fiction. Thats if she can ever get a deal to be published. Heck theres always self publishing.
When it comes to alot of these authors, I don't know why, but I am always sceptical, when it comes to thes books that are supposedly based on true stories.
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03-10-2008, 04:05 AM
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What she could have done was to write a story about the folks she claimed to have worked with in gang prevention. She could have done as the author of "Hope in the Unseen" did which is a story of a young DC black boy who got an opportunity to go to an Ivy League school and the ups and downs he faced in doing so. That book stayed on the NY Best Sellers list for months and there was no fabrication whatsoever. I mean if her intent was to "give voice to the voiceless" why the heck did she feel the need to interject herself into someone else's story? Meh!
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