Blog 7

In my mind, which is very chaotic, as long as 90% of the book is true then its non-fiction because to be honest no one is going to remember every single little detail that has happened in their live. However, they shouldn’t through in some ridiculous scene that wouldn’t fit the rest of the story or purposefully over dramatis something.
I don’t think the little bit that Frey and Mortenson bent their story’s is really anything to fuss over. Frey was adding some action to his story to help keep his readers interested. Mortenson’s book was true but I do agree that he needed to return all the money he stole. Even though the money had nothing really to do with his story, so I don’t think it should have really affected his book very much.

I’m going to be very blunt. David Shields is an IDOIT, period. I understand his ability to create something new out of the old, but the way he did it was just flat out dumb. He is completely plagiarizing. Plus, the fact that he didn’t even want to give credit where its do, make him look very ignorant. To make it even worse even though his publisher made him put credit in the back he still made it so it could be easily taken out.

In the end I think we need to just tell the truth and not lie. 

Keep the Unimaginable, Imaginable

I feel like Literary Fiction is less worthy of our time than Genre Fiction. Literary Fiction has the ability to put over 50% of its readers to sleep (I have fallen asleep reading a Literary Fiction…multiple times). When Genre Fiction has the ability to make the readers attached to the characters themselves, go through the adventure with them, making the book nearly impossible to put down.  To be honest though I would rather keep Literary Fiction in schools because the second we start pulling Genre Fiction into the schools the stories will lose their excitement. If Genre Fiction would to be put into the school curriculum we, as students, would begin to hate those books too. When you start putting questions like “What was the author’s purpose here? What is the tone/mood in this piece? ” to a book, you begin to break down parts of a book that NO ONE (at least no student) really cares about. As readers we want to at least try to enjoy the book, and if we take the books we do enjoy and start ripping them to shreds, just to understand why the author wrote it that way, you lose all enjoyment of that story. If we really wanted to know why a book was written we would look it up ourselves. We, as readers, are just glad we had the chance to experience the story that has come to life, through the authors thoughts. That’s what makes the school books so…annoyingly dull, but I would rather the schools stay the same and throw in an independent read every once in a while, then to pick at the heart of a piece that never need to be pulled apart in the first place. Keeping the unimaginable land and creatures imaginable, keeps the story alive, NOT picking at it like it’s a hunk of meat.  

The Hunger Games