blog post #5

I think that there should be a line between non-fiction and fiction. I think that if the author of a book is calling the book a memoir it should be 100% true. I think it is wrong to call it a memoir and for the author to lie about what really happened in he/ she's life. A reader picked up the book expecting it to be 100% true and if it is not I think the reader should know that or the book should go in a different genre. I think the label between non-fiction and fiction is good because that way the reader knows what they are reading. I personally like to know what genre I am reading. I would like to know if the story I am reading actually happened because I think that I connect more with the book if I know that someone actually experienced it. I don't think that just because it is a good story it is okay to lie about the truth. If it is a good story that is not true it should be fiction. However if the author does not recall every detail like what exactly a person said I believe that it is okay to remember it to the author's best memory because they are not purposely meaning to lie about the truth. Author's remember the big things that happened so if they lie about that there really is no excuse. As an example the memoir A Million Little Pieces by James Frey was not totally true. Everyone was reading the book loving it and really connecting with it until they found out that not all of it was true and that he exaggerated very important events in the book, like him going to jail or getting into an accident. It upset many readers including Oprah. I think it upset many readers because they thought that they were reading an 100% true book. So I think people do like the line between fiction and non-fiction because if people are reading a book that they think is true and they find out it is not true they get very upset. That is why I think that there should be a line between non-fiction and fiction.