Blog 5... Non-Fiction

A book has to be 100% true for it to be a non-fiction book. I don’t want to read a book where there are lies in it. I want to know all the facts, everything about the thing I’m reading about I want to know. If I’m going to read about Peyton Manning I don’t want a book that claims he went to Florida and got drafted by the Bengals, I want a book that claims he went to Tennessee and played for the Colts and now the Broncos. I don’t like being lied to. So in my opinion for a book to be considered non-fiction it has to be 100% true.

A book can be half-true though but it shouldn’t be considered non-fiction. It would be realistic fiction. And it does matter that Frey and Mortenson bent there truth because then the book isn’t 100% true and shouldn’t be considered non-fiction. Half-true books can still be good but they aren’t non-fiction.

David Shields isn’t right. He’s stealing other people works and putting his name on them. If they were a collection of stories like a book I have called Guys Write for Guys Read then that would be ok. The book is about a lot of different writers that try to aim toward guys as their audience and they are life stories of themselves from their childhood up to being an adult. It’s a great book. But that book doesn’t have an author. But what Shields has done is take peoples work and but his name on them as if they are his own. It’s plagiarism and I think may teach young kids that it’s ok.