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>write best selling book based on memoirs
>content seems fishy
>lies are made public and the author loses all credibility

Any other examples of this?

>> No.21569472

>>21569468
Plato's Dialogues.
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>> No.21569479

Oprah Winfrey is a human trafficker.

>> No.21570067

>>21569468
3 cups of tea. bro made a charity and profited from it. i was forced to read the shitty book as a 4th grader

>> No.21570079

>>21569468
The “A Child Called It” books.
Most autobiographical stuff is at best exaggerated or has lies of omission to frame things a certain way.

>> No.21570093

It's funny how much of a 2006 moment that whole controversy was. If something similar happened today, he'd call Oprah a cunt in that interview where she dommed him, tell people to follow him on Twitter and start selling Troop Coffee or something.

>> No.21570141

>>21569468
Obviously helen keller

>> No.21570298

>>21569468
Biggest plagiarist I can think of is the deaf Japanese sound engineer/composer who worked for on Resident Evil, all of his work was written by a ghost writer.

>> No.21570370

>>21570298
>all of his work was written by a ghost writer.
geez no wonder it was so spooky

>> No.21570386

Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood by Binjamin Wilkomirski.

>> No.21570416

The Reason I Jump

>> No.21570538

>>21569468
Angela's Ashes

>> No.21571153

>>21569468
These all need to be in chart-form.

>> No.21571204

>>21569468
>write best selling book based on memoirs
>content seems fishy
>lies are made public and the author loses all credibility
I have to be this guy but Anne Frank

>> No.21571230

>nooooooooo plagiarisminoooooo is le heckin bad because welllll I said so

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>>21570141
Are you implying she was not immune to flashbangs?

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21571241

the vaccine narrative by the CDC and WHO

>> No.21571251

>>21571241
go back.

>> No.21571253

>>21569468
I’ve never understood the appeal of memoirs of some literal who.

>> No.21571570

>>21569468
The guy who wrote The Boy in the Striped Pajamas mode most of his shit up, and it's ended up as a legit history reference in schools.

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Carlos Casteneda and his experiences with some mystic Indian dude. Guy got an anthropology degree as well as worldwide success based on made up ramblings lol
They're still a very entertaining read.

>> No.21571684

>>21570141
Dude there's video. Yes, her handler helped her a lot. But there's video of her communicating, being pretty self sufficient, talking, etc. I read her book and it wasn't particularly ambitious, so yeah, she can dictate a simple short memoir

>> No.21571713

>>21571599
>Carlos Casteneda and his experiences with some mystic Indian dude.
I don't know if he's much known outside of France but Alain Danielou was for decades the chief of French indolarpers. His work is generally rejected by indianists but he had large popular following.
It was revealed his initiations in India were in part fake. Svami Karpatri, important guru in the Sankara school, who Danielou claim to know hinduism from, wrote essays completely opposed to Danielou and didn't think highly of him.