Things I Hate
I don't intend to make this post a list of things I hate, but there's a good chance that I will just start writing blogs about things that really piss me off or annoy the hell out of me and whatnot.
So I realize I'm a couple days late with this, but everyone remembers that idiot James Frey who wrote whatever book he wrote, then Oprah picked it up as her book of the month or whatever her and her bookclub claim books to be, then she brought him on the show to rip him apart because I guess his book was marketed as a completely true story, and people were pissed off, and she basically trapped him to tear into him.
This brings me to my first point: So fucking what if it wasn't entirely true? I find it hard to believe that anything that is marketed as non-fiction (I'm not even sure what category it would be filed under for people to be pissed off unless it's non-fiction), unless it's a statistical book or something, is entirely true. People embellish stories. Big fucking deal. And then to call him onto the show just so you can yell at him for falsely promoting his book or whatever is just ridiculous. But whatever, Oprah is dumb and this was months ago.
So then I hear the other night (on Colbert Report I believe) that he and/or his publishing company lost a class-action suit and all of the people named in the case won back the money they paid for the book, and if they bought it at a discount, they still received the refund for the full price of the book.
Good job America. So because the Oprah was offended by what this guy did, and gave this guy so much free publicity (which is probably why he was ok with going back on the show), everyone gets pissed off and wants their money back. And there's never been an attorney who'd pass up, oh, I don't know, maybe $1 commission from probably at least 100,000 people. So everyone bitches and gets their money back.
WHO CARES IF HE LIED? Big fucking deal. I lie all the time. I do it like if i keep doing it, I might win something. And what do the people get out of it? $20? Maybe they should use that money to buy some dignity after pissing and moaning to get back that lousy $20.
And who says the book had to be straight truth? People lie all the time. They do it to make stories more interesting. People fucking loved the book until they found out he made parts of it up. So in the very least they were entertained.
This is just another sign of how stupid people in America are and their stupid feelings of entitlement. You read an entertaining book. Get the fuck over it. I just hope that now people will let this thing go, because apparently they hadn't (as I found out from the Colbert Report). Man do I hate stupid people.
End rant.
So I realize I'm a couple days late with this, but everyone remembers that idiot James Frey who wrote whatever book he wrote, then Oprah picked it up as her book of the month or whatever her and her bookclub claim books to be, then she brought him on the show to rip him apart because I guess his book was marketed as a completely true story, and people were pissed off, and she basically trapped him to tear into him.
This brings me to my first point: So fucking what if it wasn't entirely true? I find it hard to believe that anything that is marketed as non-fiction (I'm not even sure what category it would be filed under for people to be pissed off unless it's non-fiction), unless it's a statistical book or something, is entirely true. People embellish stories. Big fucking deal. And then to call him onto the show just so you can yell at him for falsely promoting his book or whatever is just ridiculous. But whatever, Oprah is dumb and this was months ago.
So then I hear the other night (on Colbert Report I believe) that he and/or his publishing company lost a class-action suit and all of the people named in the case won back the money they paid for the book, and if they bought it at a discount, they still received the refund for the full price of the book.
Good job America. So because the Oprah was offended by what this guy did, and gave this guy so much free publicity (which is probably why he was ok with going back on the show), everyone gets pissed off and wants their money back. And there's never been an attorney who'd pass up, oh, I don't know, maybe $1 commission from probably at least 100,000 people. So everyone bitches and gets their money back.
WHO CARES IF HE LIED? Big fucking deal. I lie all the time. I do it like if i keep doing it, I might win something. And what do the people get out of it? $20? Maybe they should use that money to buy some dignity after pissing and moaning to get back that lousy $20.
And who says the book had to be straight truth? People lie all the time. They do it to make stories more interesting. People fucking loved the book until they found out he made parts of it up. So in the very least they were entertained.
This is just another sign of how stupid people in America are and their stupid feelings of entitlement. You read an entertaining book. Get the fuck over it. I just hope that now people will let this thing go, because apparently they hadn't (as I found out from the Colbert Report). Man do I hate stupid people.
End rant.
posted by Jtrouble at 2:37 PM
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